Madden NFL 24 Review (Squidpapers)
I am mainly an offline player so take this review with a grain of salt.
So far Navigating the menus has been painfully slow. In superstar mode something as simple as hitting "advance week" takes 10-15 seconds to register, than it does the sim of the other teams games, than another 10-15 second wait while it appears to just lag, than the week will finally start. Every menu you try and open, ie. settings, roster, upgrades, also have a massive delay after trying to enter them. This doesn't seem like much when you are used to games that navigate quickly or just don't feel like letting time just sitting there looking at a frozen screen add up it can be quite aggravating, especially with the price tag this game came with.
The gameplay is more of the same from madden. When you hold A to skip through scenes you also end up sitting there waiting at a minimum of 20 seconds, which is almost not even worth it to hold A at that point. The screen freezes so you're basically watching a still frame of something for almost 30 seconds. If they could find a way to fix this lag I would say this is a decent step up from previous years but right now it just seems like more of the same from the madden franchise.
Another thing I would like to bring up / complain about is that when your team accepts a penalty, the announcers will say really weird stuff like "Why would they accept that and give the ball back to the offense", when the penalty was like a pass interference on the defense and the context of their sentence makes absolutely no sense. I also had the announcers tell me that "The Ravens are coming into this game after their loss to Baltimore last week" which... I don't even understand how that happens. I also heard that "The Cowboys defense did an excellent job against the run last week against Dallas". On another side note in superstar mode it says that all of my stats are 1st in the league on the stat hotbar, however they are definitely not first in the league. ie I have 32 catches at this point and both Travis Kelce and Cooper Kupp have more than 32 catches but it still says I'm first in the league in receptions. I'm sure if I wanted to author a book I could sit here and give more reasons why I am yet again disappointed with madden and its single player experience but this was enough of a rant.
I will happily change my stance if some of these issues get addressed but I know madden has a history of not listening to the community or fixing problems that don't adhere to them making more money so not holding my breath.