This game 98% plays like last years game with the addition of you get to decide what animations to trigger when catching the ball. Which triggers much warping and cancellation of your button presses. Just so certain animations can play out.
Same bad offensive line blocking.
Same bad player warping.
Same bad animations/player movement.
Same plain presentation(where the cut screens don't match whats happening on the field at times)
Same boring commentary.
Halftime and post game still ain't caught up to 2005.
Sure wish I could send more than one man in motion...Like they do in the real NFL...and in games back in 2008.
Sure wished the defensive lines stunts were not tied to the play call.
Sure wished I could choose which gaps my LBs blitzed through.
Have not been able to do these things since 2008.
Sure wished I could have some influence on blitz pick ups by my FB/HB
instead of them blocking NOTHING or helping block defenders that are already blocked and letting the unblocked LB come through.
I do like they finally gave the defense some pre-snap adjustment love.
This game is always gonna be compared to itself. This is how they have programmed most of the community to think.
I will give Rex some props though. He sat down with Ryan Moody and gave a interview where he acknowledges some things that needs fixing that people here ignore. That's what needs to be done more discussion on the legacy issues and things that need to be fixed and improved and less about fluff stuff and people being butt hurt over comparisons(much needed comparisons) between Madden and 2K5/AP2K8.