Madden NFL 24 is NOT GOOD - Review

Madden NFL 24 is yet another letdown. In a "make-or-break" year, EA has failed to justify why it gets to holds the exclusive simulation NFL rights. Save your money.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:19 Franchise
12:18 Superstar
17:17 Gameplay
20:03 Other Game Modes
22:19 Presentation
29:08 Bugs & Glitches
30:19 Final Score

Song 'Close' by Foewi used.

[SOFTDRINKTV]

I've been a bit sick recently so my voice is a little off in this video. I hope you guys enjoy it regardless!

[brando]

Soft drink I think you’re putting too much effort into these. You should just change the title and release the same video every year to match EA’s effort for their annual sports game releases.

[Kavor]

The funny thing about Madden is if they ever were to lose the exclusive license and allow other companies to make simulation football games, I bet that next iteration of Madden would be everything we’ve asked for the past 15 years. That’s the crazy part

[micahstreet]

“A lifeless bare-minimum product that barely passes for entertainment” could not be more spot on

[matthewg]

It's so weird how the NFL was able to given EA a contractual monopoly despite US Antitrust laws.

[wusgoodmoe]

As someone who doesn't even play Madden, these are always so satisfying to watch

[Boomer]

I love listening to softdrink tear into Madden and EA. He always nails EVERY single detail that is wrong with the game.

[rnsykjh]

I was playing ncaa 06 the other day and just the hype you get from the crowd is unreal... 4th and inches on the opponents 35 and the crowd is just going BANANAS chanting "GO GO GO GO" and then when I come out in goal line they go wild. Madden just feels so soulless nowadays.

[TristanSpohnAKASpiderman]

I think the most frustrating part of the franchise mode is the fact you have the same maybe 40 heads to choose from for character creation or draft prospects. The point of franchise is to feel immersed in the progression of the league through the years. Nothing takes me out of it more than after two seasons, the league is just a bunch of doppelgängers.

And it’s frustrating because they have this in the Superstar mode, so the ease of even just copy and pasting or establishing some advanced auto randomization generator to switch it up in Franchise is THERE.

[caeert]

I look forward to Soft Drink TV and Angry Joe's annual Madden videos more than the game itself.

I have so little faith in EA making a good Madden game nowadays, that I look forward to videos ripping on the new releases because I know they'll be bad.

[WolfDB]

Given how the NFL's own products for the actual sport tend to be, I don't think they really care about performance. Look at their app for watching the games. They don't care about the quality of the product, they care about how much money it makes

[sanfransiscon]

It's both sad and inspiring that indie developers with a tiny fraction of EA's resources can completely outshine them in making good sports games.

[jwreck]

SoftDrink you are the TRUTH. Thanks for the time and dedication you put into these madden reviews. Your attention to detail is phenomenal..

[nightowl]

So frustrating that they have been holding the NFL license hostage and phoning it in for years. Imagine if the Visual Concepts guys could make an NFL game now.

[RyanMoody]

At some point we can just re-upload our same videos and trust the game has the same issues.

[Muscleman]

We have to get this man’s video spread to more viewers. I have sent this video to ALL my friends that deal with EAs bs. Never stop making these one day your efforts will hopefully pay off and help us get the game we have deserved for so long!!

[McGribbs]

It is genuinely impressive to me how EA can't do anything right.

[owleyes]

30:02 That's actually not a glitch but just EA's brand new Sentient-Being-Technology™ in which players just give up on their virtual life once they realize they're trapped in a horrible game, truly game changing stuff by EA as always

[JDAZ]

This is only happening because we lack the consistency when it comes to a development team. The truth is EA employees first time game developers, fresh out of school to get their experience. These new graduates stay with the company for about a year sometimes 2 years and then they are let go, and a fresh batch is brought in. There’s absolutely no consistency when it comes to EA and the people that are working on this game. It’s always a new face.

[redskinStu]

I remember in 2004 when EA got the exclusive NFL license I was regularly reading Gamespot (I know, don't bother commenting, I already know...) and after reading the "news story" I commented below and said this will be the end of quality Madden games, without competition there will be no reason to innovate, they'll just release the same game every year with updated rosters, the games will eventually become garbage...and my comment was deleted by a Gamespot moderator, plus got a warning lecturing me about attacking a quality product made by a quality corporation, my comment wasn't relevant and that if I continued behaving that way I may jeopardize my future on Gamespot, not noticing the six EA ads on the Gamespot page