My first experiance of madded came back in 99 and compared to gameday i hated madden. Madden bought out all the rights to other football frenchises. I ended up playing madden 05 for the ps2. I loved it. player progression even if you didnt want to do the training camp each week. Which in my busy life i dont want to spend all my time perfecting training camp simulations, and button mashing. now a days you can only train 3 people per week and their is absolutely no player progresson for how well your players played.
I recomend blitz the league 2 to anyone. Just started playing it after i got sick of playing a team that doesn't get better only worse with each season as your rookies come in with suck stats and your veterns retire after 10 years of pro football. i was never a fan of the old blitz games but became a fan once the league came out in 05 or 06. it was everything madden wasn't, aka a good football game.

I haven't been impressed or bought madden football since 2005, and I am quite picky. I've played 06-09 and was not impressed at all and the game just didn't have that football feel to it. I would give this game about 4 1/2 stars, but you can't and considering I find this game very enjoyable and close to being incredible...it gets 5 stars.

First, most of my gameplay consists of franchise mode against the computer. I don't really play online so my opinion isn't based on that. The game is pass-happy, but that for the most part is the way the NFL is now because of the rule changes and such. Once you get comfortable playing this game the most important thing is to adjust your settings to where the game is realistic. You will soon find out that your defensive backs don't cover well at all and you get minimal to no pass rush. QB accuracy is way to high on the default levels. Once you lower your QB accuracy, the cpu's QB accuracy, and help give yourself a pass rush the game is very realistic. You will also have to lower the interceptions also because there will be too much. FYI...when you get to the user's settings you will only see 4 areas where you can adjust your settings. It will not appear that you can adjust pass rush, interceptions, etc., but just click the X button on them and it opens up a new window. I don't know why they did this, but it took me about a month to figure it out that I needed to do this.

Even playing the game 6 months later I am amazed at all the different tackles, catches, and movement of the players. The graphics are really good. On the negative side, some of the cut shots tend to get repetitive and like most games the announcers get boring (just listen to music when you play or something). The receivers don't do a great job of trying to get their feet in bounds when near the sideline, but you get used to this, and just plan on not throwing the ball to them on out patterns when they are near the sideline. I turned off fight for the fumble because it seemed like I never won and was sick of hammering on the joystick to recover a fumble. The other strange thing I've noticed is that the cpu's running backs are averaging around 7 yards a carry in my franchise seasons. My running backs average between 3.6 and 4.9 yards/carry. So you'll see guys with 200 carries already well over 1,000 yards. They have definitely downgraded the franchise mode from 2005, but it isn't a big loss for me. You can still draft players, sign players, cut players, set depth chart, and do the general functions of an organization. I had played NCAA football 09 and thought the recruiting in that game was way to much and took time away from actually playing the game. So with Madden 10 I'm glad I'm not wasting my time overanalyzing potential draft picks and worried about how many hot dogs my stadium sells.

The key to this game is really getting your settings correct, because the game is enjoyable. It really feels like football and when I'm playing my franchise games I feel involved and into the game. I don't play the superstar mode basically because I find it boring after about an hour and have no interest in going back and playing it. I like playing on 15 minutes with a 20 second accelerated clock. The game takes anywhere from 50 mintues to 1 hr 15 minutes with those settings. You get close to a realistic amount of plays. If you've been disappointed with the last few years of madden this is definitely a step in the right direction. Hopefully they can continue from this point and just fix a few little things. Overall though, this game is worth it and very well balanced.