They can tinker with the out of game features as much as they want, but the on field graphics don't look all that much different than they did in 2006. It's sort of embarrassing looking at the graphics in one of the war video games out and Madden. It's night and day. They have added features like "Shading" and minor touchups, but removed fun features like Creating multiple players on a team, creating your own plays, etc. I've always been a big madden player, but I know they are shortselling us as fans solely b/c they have the monopoly and know they don't HAVE to do much different. They even removed the soundtrack last year, which is usually one of the best features.