the absolute pinnacle of nfl games. if you only ever play one, play this one. you dont even need to be a fan to enjoy this one. matter of fact, it comes with a full-length football for dummies book inside the game for the newcomers and casual fans like me who maybe dont know every rule. it has a fully featured franchise mode, player creator, shockingly good commentary from a game from 2004, excellent physics and hit detection, a house you can wander around in and plaster every wall of with posters of chris berman, and most notably a got damn first person mode that somehow works flawlessly. madden 08 WISHES it was on this game's level.