6. Madden '09 - I'll probably play this for a few weeks when it comes out, learn all the shotgun and big sets in the run 'n gun playbook, lab up some sick heat from an unrealistic defensive set, then quit because it's the same as every other madden.
Played it today. Its an identical game to NCAA09 if you've picked that up. Same controls. Same engine. Same menus. Better graphics. It doesn't appear that the offenses are as redic overpowered as they are in NCAA09.

This "adaptive game engine" shit is just a bunch of mini games (same ones as every other madden) that you complete and then they auto-set the difficulty for you based upon how well you do on them. A nice idea, but nothing new.

Graphics are nice. Favres on the cover which made me giggle a little.

No more madden doing the announcing. And they stopped trying to force peoples names into the announcing so much, for instance instead of "That was a great catch by [pause] Randy Moss!" you'll get "That was a great catch by the receiver" but the names still show up from time to time.

the graphics look great, definitely more polished than NCAA09.

/brag post?