I've enjoyed every NFL game since I first started playing it. I've never played it in RL but I can appreciate a good game, I fall asleep halfway through a match when watching it on ESPN but when I have a couple of friends over theres nothing better than to play a good "co-op" match against each other. It gets quite intense with the odd controller throwing and shouting, but its all in good fun. Hope to get my hands on the game soon.
There used to be a great game called Joe Montana and one called Mike Didka, where you could pause play and pick a receiver at leasure... very strange.
It is a pitty Madden is so badly distributed in SA. I think American football is very well suited to gaming since picking plays is such a big part of it. Few other sports offer the same combination of strategic and action elements.
The other game i would really like to get is NHL 10, which EA is not at all distributing in SA... which really sucks, given that the metascore is currently on 90.