I love the creation of MUT 10ish years ago, and it’s drawn me back into the game, but Madden 2005 will forever be my favorite football game of all-time. (NCAA 2003 is a close 2nd) The amount of days I logged on it doing franchise mode with me inputting my friends names for players and playing through 12 year dynasties was insane.
I played older ones as well, but the stress-free games of the mid-2000’s just hit different than they do nowadays.