Next generation Madden is fantastic. I'm really enjoying it so far.
A lot of the MUT twitteratti is bitching because "playing defense" to them entails finding the fastest linebackers you can and strafing the middle of the field covering sideline to sideline because for some reason defensive players all have a closing speed of Usain Bolt, and they've finally done a good job of mitigating if not outright nerfing that. Tough excrement.
Considering EA's penchant for squeezing every dollar out of their customer base, I wish they'd fix franchise, not include it with the base game and just charge it as a DLC already. I'll pay the extra 10 or 20 bucks, stop giving me a shell of a mode.
I only popped FIFA in to download it and get the upgrade, but in the one game I played against the CPU it felt smooth and looked great.