So I went ahead and bought it, best madden for a good few years. Gameplay is much improved, especially on defence and Ultimate team is impressive. Offence is more of a challenge, harder to make breaks with running backs and receivers. Also find it quite difficult to go long and throw over the top of the CB's unless it's against cover 2 D. Presentation wise it's good and it runs well on the PS4. The pre-game and in game presentation could be better i.e similar to the college football games.
On the 'connected franchise' mode, it's not much different to last years game really, I do like the coach and owner modes though. However, I wish they would make a dedicated be a pro mode similar to what it was in 07/08 games. The radio show they had would be a welcome addition to the twitter feed. A proper be a pro mode has great potential, it needs to be invested in and made deeper. At the moment it just feels stale. Overall a good game though. 8/10.