It should come as no surprise that tomorrow the sun will come up, and Madden NFL 11 will be on sale. Its arrival not only signals the impending end of summer, but the coming of the holiday gaming season. Both revered and reviled, perhaps more than any other game franchise in the history of the medium, Madden NFL has come a long way since its inception. The current console generation has given us both the best and worst the franchise has to offer, with last year’s effort quite possibly being the most finely tuned entry to date. This year, EA boasted some radical changes, like Gameflow, to make the game more accessible to less devoted fans they believed had been turned off by just how “real” the video game had become. Unfortunately, the major differences between Madden 10 and Madden 11 are left at that, and this year’s effort feels more stagnant than ever before.