I've bought madden every year since 02 (except 05 cause NFL2K5 was hands down the best football game ever made) anyway I held off this year. My thoughts were that it was going to be another copy of 11 which was a copy of 10 ect. Well I was talking to a buddy of mine and he stated that they really updated it. I figured he was full of **** and went about my day. After watching the Green Bay Saints game I had the itch, and I said the hell with it and bought a copy. Well to my surprise this game is legit. EA did a good job of stopping the cheesers and really made this a football sim. That said I know there are a lot of NCAA players on here and thought I would pass along that I will be hard for me to go back to NCAA. Yeah it's that good. Just wanted to pass it along to people that were hesitant like me. 17 Auburn.