[Smallville102001]

This is a hard question to answer. Madden 16 was the first good madden in like 10 years and the jump from madden 15 to 16 was like the biggest jump in sports video game history for a 1 year jump. I was going to skip madden 17 if not for the trade in and games thing that best buy does. Madden 17 like most sports games is a slight improvement over the past years. Being able to block kicks is good but I think it may be a little to hard to block kicks. In like 20 games I have only blocked 1 kick. Commentary is much better and animations looks much better. With that said line play is still a joke as it is still impossible to get a realistic pass rush. On default CPU gets like 10 seconds to make a pass like 98% of the time. If you turn the pass blocking down you can then get some pressure and some sacks but even then it is all or nothing. Either CPU gets a year to make a pass or no one blocks at all and you can get to the CPU in .1 seconds.