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I’m not sure how many folks know this, but I’ve been playing around with it for the last day and I’ve learned a lot.

After every online multiplayer match, you get the menu screen with: Player Feedback, Quit Game, Stats, etc. The one that will really help improve your game is Highlights.

From highlights you can review any play from the game by selecting it and pressing X (On 360). It’s just like reviewing an instant replay and you can look at the play step by step using the left and right triggers.

True football fans will realize that this is exactly what real teams do when they review the film and photos from a game! Here you can learn what defense your opponent used that stopped you so much or how they scored so easily against your defense.

I haven’t even begun to play around with this in Online Dynasties, but I imagine it’s even more useful. Most people have a handful of plays that they use on offense and defense all the time. Using this highlight tool it’s possible to figure out what their tendencies are for the next time you play them.

For me, that’s just uber cool!

PS: Unfortunately the only way to review the highlights is immediately after a game. Which sucks if you just lost and it’s gotten to you. Maybe someday EA will be cool and actually let you save the entire highlights section for future use. But until then, the best thing to do is just calm down and look at the highlights a little later, after the sting has worn off.

PPS: This works in regular matches against the CPU, but I think it’s less relevant because the CPU is much better at mixing up it’s play calling. BUT I haven’t looked at it either, so who knows?

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