The game is much better than last year. I have a 360 and I've just been so impressed so far. By far the most noticeable difference is the faster 60 fps along with a million new branching animations. Hard to explain but control has been given back to the user. Before, where the only way you could get past a defender in wide open space was to truck him or use the juke button. Now you can break peoples ankles with just the regular stick because everything is just twitchier. New gang tackles, new blocking, very little if any "Mario running" (now your runningback pushes the pile, mid air collisions, and the whole new weapons system that gives a different feel to every type of elite player. I think I spent like 4 hours straight playing it. Anyway, my gamertag is MIKEbolts if anyone wants to play.