This game deserves rave reviews because it revitalizes the extreme-pro sports genre with a brand new take. It contains the most fun 10 minute game ever created, pick up mode, has a 40 hour plus challenge mode, and is the most fun game possibly ever made. It is not the best or deepest or most well crafted or anything. Zelda, FF, GTA, GT all outshine it in pure game perfection. But this is so much fun! And the graphics, while certainly not the best, are decent enough to keep you sitting for hours at a time, or for the 15 minute halftime of the Super Bowl.