Sweet game in my opinion because you have to do your role on the field right if you wanna have any fun and not just....
alright if you wanna enjoy this game and knock peoples heads off with the AMAZING hits then you gotta play it like you would a real football game. For instance, in other football games people can cheat and completely disregard their assignment for a play and just run around the O-line and sack the QB, in backbreaker if you do that, you get pancaked HARD, because linemen don't just let you run around them. oh yea and your defense and O-lineman aren't just mindless robots anymore, they actually react to the situation on the field, if an O-lineman has no D-lineman to block, he will react to that and dig out a linebacker, and if they see a fellow lineman struggling they go and help him. Also one of my favorite parts to this game is that....YOU CAN MAKE TACKLES BY KNOCKING A BLOCKER INTO THE RUNNING BACK!!!! because the game ADAPTS to the situation as i said, and if a blocker is in your way when running you can run through him. there are sooooo many more amazing adaptive situations about this game that i can't list them all.
THIS IS A GAME YOU NEED TO GIVE TIME!!!! i personally thought this game was so horrid the first 2 hours cause i couldn't do anything right and always got my ass handed to me, then i realized i was playing it like madden and started to play it like a real football game and started doing very well, the controls definitely take some time to get used to as well especially resisting the urge to use aggressive mode because it's a habit to press the button in madden to sprint.
THE BAD:
-awkward looking characters
-takes at LEAST a day to get completely used to it
-the camera angle when on offense is very awkward but you get used to it eventually
-aggressive mode is harder then it needs to be