It’s rare for annual sports video game franchises to make major changes year-to-year, but Madden NFL 24 is completely revamping one of Madden NFL 23’s most hated features. For the most part, the upgrades to the Madden system this year are surface-level, if not minimal. Madden NFL adds over 500 optional plays to the game, for a greater variety of offensive and defensive options. The latest installment also introduced the FieldSENSE feature, which improves simulated players’ AI to make them act more realistically on the field. To further that, Madden 24 updates all the character models in the game with the new SAPIEN skeleton, to ensure more lifelike movement.
However, sometimes enough negative feedback about a particular feature in one game can affect how it changes in a sequel. Madden NFL 23 certainly got that in spades, and looking at Madden NFL 24, it’s apparent how criticism has influenced this year’s successor.
Last year’s Madden Franchise Mode was wildly unpopular, but Madden NFL 24 has made a conscious effort to fix its predecessor’s mistakes. Franchise Mode is one of 10 game modes available in Madden 24. Some modes are exclusive to particular platforms, but Franchise Mode is universally available wherever Madden 24 is playable. It’s equivalent to what other sports games have called Manager or GM Mode in that it lets players take executive control of a team, making hiring, firing, and other day-to-day decisions in an attempt to get to the Super Bowl.
Madden 23’s Franchise Mode was broken. Its features were lacking, its simulations progressed unrealistically, and its difficulty was permanently fixed at a too-easy level. Moreover, Franchise Mode was plagued by bugs, to the point that it often shut down for days at a time. Some players would log in when it finally came back online, only to find that their save files had been lost in the ether. It was a frustrating experience, and one that raised expectations for Franchise Mode in Madden NFL 24. To that end, and in addition to widespread bug fixes, this year’s Madden improves Franchise Mode across three categories: realism, customization, and new features.
Madden NFL 24 implements a suite of new features to make its simulated Franchise Mode feel like the real thing. It addresses the previous installments’ problems with trading, which made it too easy to buy out the top players in Madden. When starting a new Franchise Mode run, Madden 24 provides a slider to set the trade difficulty. In essence, this determines how much a manager will have to spend on new players. Good players can be prohibitively expensive on higher difficulties, but the price tags on real-life football contracts demonstrate that it’s only realistic. Plus, it gives a team goals to aspire to, which can make Franchise Mode interesting.
2023-08-18 21:00:04
Source from screenrant.com
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