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GREAT
This is the best game ive ever played. Its graphics r amazing and its gamplay almost matches 2004's

I love this game!
Well EA has done it again, a great game with great graphics and gameplay. The dynasty mode is great with all the recruting pitches you can use for different players that are in the area or maybe far away. One of the downsides is that there was no game play put in for creating your own athlete and going through as the individual player and making big plays. Other than that I would recommend for just the dynasty mode.

Disappointed
My son wanted to get this game after playing the XBOX (not 360) version that his cousin had. Unfortunately the 360 version did not have some of the cool features that the XBOX version had. He was very disappointed. Next time I'll be sure to check the product features and hopefully will catch any discrepancies. Of course this does not keep him from playing and enjoying the game but we didn't buy a 360 to get "less" features!

Retarded monkeys could have made a better game.
I realize that with only a little more than a month before the 2008 version comes out, this review is coming a little late, but I just had to throw in my two cents (which is what this game should have cost).
When this game came out last July I was so excited to get it, that I went to Target at 9:00 in the morning the day it came out,something I've never done for any game. Disappointing, is a major understatement for this game. Yes the graphics are great, but it takes more than great graphics to make a great game. Realism is something that was completely ignored in this game. The designers clearly showed that they had either forgotten how football was played, or had never even seen a game.

Here is a list of some of the aspects of gameplay, or lack thereof:

1. The thing that annoyed and angered me most about the play of this game is the artificial intelligence, if it can be called intelligent. The players in the game make ridiculously impossible plays on a regular basis. I can't even count how many times I have seen a cornerback cover 15 yards in three steps from a dead stop to either knock a ball away or intercept it. Or seeing a defensive lineman jump four feet in the air to knock a ball down. Or seeing a running back get hit by four people simultaneously and somehow stay on his feet and run for a touchdown. Or numerous other oversights I won't mention.

2. Penalties. Anyone who has ever seen a football game knows that it is nearly impossible to get through a game without at least three or four penalties, more often than not penalties can get into double digits. In this game I have gone entire SEASONS without double digit penalties. And the penalties that are called are completely stupid. Pass interference is the penalty that I have the biggest problem with. Pass interference is called so inconsistently it's laughable. I have been called for pass interference for knocking a ball out of a player's hands after he caught it, but not had it called when I have been surrounded all sides and had everything done to me short of being knocked down as the ball goes by. It eventually got so bad, that I just turned pass interference off. But numerous other penalties are never even called. I have played 10 seasons in the game and never once was there a facemask penalty, illegal formation, illegal substitution, and I can count on one hand the number of times a holding penalty has been called.

3. Weather is something that is another problem, specifically wind. Wind has no effect whatsoever on the ball. On kickoffs the ball goes just as far when it is kicked against or with a 30 mph wind as it does in calm conditions. Though compared to reasons 1 & 2 this is really only a slight annoyance.

4. One thing that I do like about the game is that it is finally possible to block kicks and punts, as well as return kickoffs and punts for touchdowns. Anyone who played previous games knows that it was nearly impossible to do any of these.

To sum up, this is an unbelievably weak game. I've learned a lesson about buying games right as they come out, before knowing how good or bad it is. Hopefully the designers of the newest version have read the reviews about this game and made up for their mistakes, or maybe they've been fired and replaced by people who actually know football. All we can do is wait and see, and pray.

Only a rent
When I rented this game unfortunately I only knew number 10(Troy Smith). I thought because I hadn't kept up with my collage players it was hurting my game experiance, but I was wrong. There is absolutely nothing to do in this game. Even though I did not enjoy renting this game I still thought that the graphics were great and the players looked really life like.