[TtTackler]

Stores released the game two days early for those who pre-ordered it, and damn, this is the most amazing and innovative football game by FAR. Whoever thought of the playmaker feature deserves a huge cookie, perhaps even two . The ability to change your receivers/running backs routes before and after plays, control who your blockers, well, block, and bring your defense in for the run stop or out for the deep pass brings the game to a whole new level of challenge.

Although I'm only two games into my preseason, so I can't start using the features until the regular season begins, it looks very indepth according to the tutorials and is going to be lots of fun. Hiring staff depends on the progress of your players abilities, and hiring good training staff helps keep injuries to a minimum and helps injuries heal faster. Not to mention the fact that you can build your stadium from scratch, add onto it, change the prices of food and mechandise, and etc. to just keep the fans happy with the team. If they don't like your team, you can just up and leave after the season is over, LA anyone? One thing I loved, before preseason starts, you get to do training camp drills and select certain players (good for highly drafted rookies) to do them. Do well, and you get points that you can add to the player's attributes. Very innovative as well.

Forget ESPN Football's first-person view, Madden has brought football games to a whole new level.