Agreed...the demo pretty much was the giant nail in the coffin for me. The game is boring, non engaging, repetitive, unresponsive (the guy I'm controlling on defense still doesn't jump when I hit the triangle button), not exciting, and the stuff they added this year (e.g. the headset coaching advice) is really dumb. Not just dumb...but
REALLY dumb. I got sick of listening to it halfway through the first game and found myself looking around and trying to figure out how to turn it off. Why EA wastes their time on that kind of stuff boggles my mind.
At no period while I was playing the demo did I feel any sense of excitement or did I see a "wow" moment...and I found myself asking myself why the heck I was even playing the game....it's that boring. And don't even get me started on the commentary. Yuk. I think Madden has officially bottomed out as a franchise.