Top critical review
2.0 out of 5 starsMostly trash
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2024
As far as games go, this one is pretty much garbage. For starters, it takes FOREVER to navigate between menus. This has been an issue for quite a while. The last Madden I bought was in 2020 and it was an issue then and it somehow seems to have gotten worse.
Because I haven’t bought a game in so long, my opinions are a little outdated. There are some cool things I’m not used to. The scouting and draft in franchise mode has gotten significantly better. Gameplay and customization has gotten better. It’s much easier to play a game and have it feel like it’s a real nfl game. You can run behind your run blocking guard and have success as long as you don’t do it every play all game. Receivers can get open if they’re good. Etc.
But all the ideas they have of how to make it more fun than just football are tedious and pointless. They have so many different development traits for players that it’s basically impossible to know what they all are or how to use them.
Actually, it seems like their whole goal is to get you to die of old age playing 1 season in franchise mode. I’m not exaggerating on the time to load from one screen to the next, it takes about 10 seconds and they seem to have purposely added extra screens that are completely unnecessary. For instance, at one point during the year, there are multiple places just to select your scouts.
While I’m talking about scouts, it’s absolutely ridiculous that in 2024 Madden still has a draft that has 6 players in a position in the whole draft. There are 858 college football teams in the country. How do you have 6 players to choose from in a position? And god forbid an actual udfa is a decent player. That’s another thing that has always annoyed the crap out of me. The process of signing UDFAs is completely unrealistic and almost pointless.
Overall, I give it a D, just like every other Madden game. Better than nothing, but still feels like they just release it to make easy money instead of actually caring about making a decent game