Madden NFL 24 reveals gameplay with Bills vs. Chiefs game

Josh Allen against Patrick Mahomes

Marco Wutz | Aug 2, 2023

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EA Sports has shown off Madden NFL 24 in a livestream today, broadcasting a match between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs – the homes of the quarterback superstars Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. Allen, of course, is this year’s cover star for the series, but that doesn’t mean his team had an advantage going into the game.

This is EA Sports’ first official gameplay showcase after giving some theoretical deep dives into the mechanics as well as Franchise Mode last month. You can watch the clash of giants below:

Some fans have been quite happy with what they’ve seen so far, saying the gameplay is going in the right direction after EA Sports used the feedback from the beta test to finetune things. Others think the changes made don’t go far enough – a difficult balancing act the developers have to get right year after year with their sports games, since making changes that are too drastic might be detrimental to the series’ popularity with long-standing fans, who buy the games every year to get a similar experience.

However, not all is well in the Madden community despite the positive impression the game is making: A portion of fans, which was affected by a server error last year and lost its Madden NFL 23 saves, is still waiting on the 50% discount on Madden NFL 24 that EA Sports promised them as a way of compensating them for their lost franchises.

Madden NFL 24 will be released on August 18, 2023, for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.

Published Aug 2, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg