FATAL ERROR

Obviously this is awful, it's literally an unfinished build and the fact that they wanted this out before Christmas is a laugh. Every game crashes exactly upon (or before) finishing the 2nd quarter, no matter the length - and the excruciatingly long pause this takes before any sort of play feels like the thing is about to violently brick your console. That being said, there's a lot of impressive features for its time here: the interactive weather system in particular, as well as the neat (but hella repetitive) 3D touchdown dances. Plus it's actually pretty diverting trying to avoid a critical error, it becomes a game in itself - the very specific sets of options one must do to keep this thing intact feels like diffusing a ticking bomb. The A.I. is also just ridiculously over-aggressive. Crazy to think that EA - the same company responsible for rushing out incomplete game after incomplete game - chose to quietly cancel this rather than shatting it out in time for the holiday shopping season.