Some good ideas but ultimatly its another next gen sports letdown.
Now you can make up your own guys thats cool. You can make your own teams and modify your uniforms. All quite cool.
You get one with the team you created and then you have to start over by selecting another set of stars to play with your nobodies (or picking the same ones). Now you can take the team you created online and I hear this is where the game really shines, but I cannot speak to it as I dont really play online that much.
Graphics: They were good. kInd of cartoony like 2k5 but nice and clean and I actually like the style of it a bit better then the recent Maddens.
Sound: Announcers did fine, music was fine. Environmentals were well done. I dont need Warren Moon to talk to Jonny Unitas and thought those types of things were cheesey and overdone (but thats my taste).
Gameplay: Kicking is terrible (I know, I guess I just stink at it, but to me its no fun to continuously kick for 20 yards, might as well run a 4th down play...which worked more often then not). Otherwise the controls worked well enough.
Script: This game takes a long time because there is a lot of cutscene stuff to skip through. Now this is nice to have as Madden 06 (the last version I bought) has basically nothing in atmosphere compared to All Pro. However, it would be nice to be able to turn these on and off as sometimes you just want a quick game without all the fanfare and I get tired of skipping it all. Play selection was good. AI played reasonably well. No obvious glitching or absurd fumbling of the ball every snap. Though sometimes the "fourth quarter comback" guys seemed kind of cheap.
Menus were occassionally confusing, poping up and not letting you get back to where you were...but then I didnt actually read the manual so that could have been on me.
I am still waiting for a great next gen football game. This was a good try but I think they got too hero-worrishpy and that ruined it for me. The lack of a franchise mode where you can move on with knew unknown players was a let down for me too. If however you love the legneds or online play you may like this game better then me. But for me even the the $9.99 I payed for it seems like it could have been better spent.