And I really wish they would use a passing scheme more similar to Gameday 99's. The passing game is always the funnest for me in football games and Madden still doesn't play out that scenario out as well as Gameday. There are more animations this time around, and they do look good. But, the character sprites are the same ones that have been always used, and they look blocky and not that well rendered. The characters needed more polishing around the edges and it wasn't given.
Stadiums do look pretty good, though, as do the videos of our favorite football gurus.
Sound FX sound the same to me, nothing that different from Madden 99, which isn't a bad thing. But, the crowd didn't seem as rowdy or loud as they were in the last game. They improved the speech by Summerall and Madden, but they do repeat stuff a bit too much and many times, what they say has no correlation to what is happening on the field. By the way Madden is still the best simulation football game on playstation in my opinion. The Madden level is a tad hard to run on still.