Some of the glitches and miscues in this game are unacceptable: PAT and field goal camera glitches, the PA bootleg hand-off glitch, inability to make assignment audibles on defense during a hurry-up occasionally, the game shipping with a new add-on not working at all prompting annoying pop-ups every time you enter or exit a game, all things that should have been easily caught during testing; while others are more forgivable: instead of telling you that using the right stick to gain extra yardage will increase fumbles, they leave you to figure it out on your own, and the option-pitch issues can be attributed to this being their first year with a new locomotion engine; and others are the usual EA head-scratchers: the CPU is still unstoppable on any difficulty setting in the 4th quarter, the CPU AI seemingly never makes use of the squib kick, this being the first year the squib kick is available on next-gen systems, ridiculous morphing by defenders for interceptions and swats, some on-field injuries not popping up or cuing commentary until a few plays later (if at all), a carbon-copy Road to Glory mode with literally ZERO improvements or additions and ridiculously stale commentary by a broadcast team less Lee Corso (who somehow still manages to make his pre-game picks if you review the matchup before a game).
But really, all of this is par for the course for EA, and in the end this will be a game you will lament not having once college football season rolls around, as the graphics indeed have received a boost, the new recruiting system is, well, new, to say the least, and they don't seem to have fucked up OD's that bad.
In my opinion, EA has bought themselves one more year of this "well, there are these gloriously unacceptable ****-ups but we didn't mess up the other stuff too bad" cycle, so pick it up this year and do the same thing next year: wait until the game drops, read reviews/rent/borrow from a buddy and then decide.
