My favorite feature is that you can not only create your own players but your own teams which can consist of new players or old legends. There are a couple of things that bother me though. One that you can't make a custom stadium. If you make a custom team, there home satdium is a place called the EA Sports arena. Another thing that's missing is when in franchise mode, you can't change info about custom players, things like hair, hair color and style, glasses, etc.
Graphics look really good.
Most of the players look like what they really look like. Graphics in a game a little worse though. There are a lot of problems that I pointed out while playing the game for several hours. One, during free throws, the faces of the players seem to get real fat and ugly for some reason. Three, crowd looks the same in almost all the games throughout the season.