2k8 was not that good a game, the 2k worshiping on these forums amazes me.
And your impressions really did not tell us anything about Madden other than your user name fitting what you are to the thread.
The game is not perfect but it is the best Madden to date, some can argue otherwise and that is fine but I believe it is the best to date. It is just a video game after all, not real football and it does a great job at entertaining me so I'm good with that.