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A nifty new feature this season is the usage of Weapon icons for different players (similar to what's been recently happening over on NBA Live). While most of these are just informative and can help you exploit mismatches, top-shelf players like Peyton Manning and Ray Lewis have a "light bulb" weapon; as it fills up during the game, you can choose to read your opponent's plays at opportune times. Brilliant stuff.
From a control standpoint, it pays to be dexterous and have a sharp memory. Madden makes near-obnoxious use of every single button before, during, and after the snap to the point of sensory overload. While it allows for an unprecedented level of depth to maneuver the troops, it'll probably scare off the uninitiated. At least the default settings display a list of what each button does before the play; our poor brains need more time to process everything before we turn that feature off.
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