You need to know these features in Madden 24, which some are good, some are bad. But they’re very important to the structure of the game. 

1. Defender Animations 

At number one, we have better animations for the secondary defending passes.

As we all know in Madden 23, Man Coverage was probably the meta in the game. There were some people who played very good zone defense. But Man Defense was probably the best type of defense that you can play.  

But from playing the beta, you can really see a difference in how the secondary plays defense. For example, in Madden 23, if you’re on offense and throw the ball to the flat route, the defender is usually delayed and you can get a couple of yards after the catch. 

But in Madden 24, if the flat defenders are there, as soon as you throw the ball, he comes right down to make a tackle or even have a good animation to knock the ball out.  

And for this reason, I do think that defense will be a little easier than Madden 23. I do think that will give you more chances to get stops on the defensive side of the ball, which I think is a big plus.

2. Defender Advantage Formula

But by far the biggest improvement that I see on defense is something called the Defense Advantage formula.  

Now, what will this do in Madden 24? All this will do is take the strength of players, the weight, the height, and incorporate that when they actually tackle someone. So a big defensive lineman will not get run over by a running back or the running back falls forward on a defensive tackle, which is a big thing and a huge deal.

This is because in Madden 23, small running backs would like run over or fall forward for a first down, which it’s like fourth and one or third and one, and they get the first down when you make a really good play on defense and you have a bigger player on a bigger running back, but for some reason that running back falls forward. That will happen anymore. 

Now a defensive tackle will be able to kind of push the running back, which makes more sense. And it’s more scientific. 

One thing that can cancel that whole formula out, though, is when the offensive linemen push the running back forward, which is a new animation in Madden 24.

And yes, it does happen quite often and not just on third and one situations, goal line situations. So, I hope this doesn’t play a huge factor and completely cancels out the formula that would suck. But I do think the pushing animation of pushing the running back forward could be pretty cool in certain situations. 

3. Tackle Animations 

At number three, we have the new tackle animations, like when they actually pick the guy up off the ground and tackle them. It doesn’t happen quite often in real football, but I do find it pretty cool. The new tackling animations do add just more excitement into Madden.

I know a lot of people like the realism, but sometimes we got to understand that it is a video game and having tackles like that again does happen quite often in real life. But in that and they don’t happen quite often either. So, having those are just going to add more excitement to the game. 

4. Run Blocking

And number four, we have running the ball and just blocking in general.

Running has Run Blocking a real possibility of being better on the offensive side of the ball. And that’s all because of the new Hit Everything technology. 

This new Hit Everything technology has been able to make the offensive line a lot smarter, especially when run blocking or pulling or reaching the second level defenders. If they get hit, of course, they’ll just block another guy, even if it’s not the guy that they’re originally assigned to. 

Now, the Hit Everything technology does work better when you have better offensive linemen, higher overall. So, if you have a lot of MUT 24 Coins, please buy as many powerful players as possible to join your team.

But, overall, running was a lot easier in Madden 24, even though the better if they bring that over to the release date game. I can see a lot of people running the ball doing tosses, just all kinds of run plays.

And one thing to note here, and this is for the people who like subbing in their safeties in the linebacker position. Since the offensive line is so much better, it’s actually been seen and said that the offensive line will easily take care of smaller defenders. So, if that’s something you do in a lot of your formation, you might need to change that up from Madden 24.

5. Onside Kick

Now, this is a pretty cool thing, and this actually brings physics into Madden and just science in general, new kicking animations on onside kick.

The ball and onside kicks are actually hopping. There are different bounces, which I find really cool instead of just going straight on the ground, which actually really didn’t make any sense, never really thought anything of it until they came out with this animation. So, that’s pretty cool. 

And I’m assuming there’s going to be a way someone’s going to find a way to find a really good onside kick that is just going to be meta. So, hopefully that doesn’t happen too much. But it’s still pretty cool.

6. Catching Animations (RAC Catch)

At number six, we have the new catching animations that are a lot better than Madden 23. 

But there’s one caveat to that. So, the one good thing out of this is the better RAC catching.

In Madden 23, whenever you tried to RAC Catch with receivers, especially on goes or screens, the players kind of just stopped and it would be tough to get any type of acceleration boost or any type of yards because of that. 

But in Madden 24, they completely fixed that. A RAC catches an actual RAC Catch where they can continue their momentum and keep it running. That is a huge plus. 

Now, here’s the caveat to that. The routes are a lot more realistic. The players are running realistic routes. But because they’re so realistic and there’s so many new animations, some of the total catching is not very consistent.  

In Madden 23, we were able to get some consistent toe tap catches near the sideline. But in Madden 24, it seems that it’s a little tougher for the players. At times, you’re going to be wide open and then they only get one foot in and you’ve no idea why and there’s nobody even near him. You have a lot of space to get two feet in.

So, hopefully, that’s fixed. If it’s not, I can see that there will be some trouble in the future. But I do think that’s a minor detail and I do think they’ll get that fixed by the time the release date is here.

7. Zone Defense

At number seven, we have Zone Defenses now. 

The Zone Defenses are pretty similar to Madden 23, maybe a tiny bit better in playing their respective area. But one thing I want to note is that on the offensive side of the ball, a huge thing will be pulling defenders away from their zone to find open windows.

In Madden 23, if you didn’t do that, you want to have a very good offense, and it’s the same thing High Ball Passing in Madden 24. 

8. High Ball Passing

At number eight, we have High Ball Passing.

In Madden 24 because Man Defense is a little better and just overall, the animations are better, you won’t be able to bail yourself out with high ball passes anymore. In Madden 23, you were able to throw in into double teams or just a closely guarded wide receiver and hold out one for a high ball pass. You can bail yourself out with an incompletion or even a catch.

In Madden 24, the defense is so much better. A lot of the times they actually break up the pass or intercept it. So, you won’t be able to get bailed out because of that reason. In my opinion, I would say that’s a pretty good thing because it could be very frustrating playing good defense. But then, the offense just holds one button and they just get rewarded for it. 

So I’m glad that’s kind of out of the game and I’m glad defense is a little better. 

9. Blitzing 

Some people might take the ninth feature as a good or bad thing. It depends on how you play. 

The Blitzing in Madden 24 will be a kind of the same for Madden 23. What I saw from the beta is that it’s a lot of the same Blitzes that are going to be pretty good, but I do think we’ll have new meters. 

But DB Fire and Spin are still very good plays, very good Blitzers. The slot corner blitzing is still probably going to be a huge thing that you need to know how to stop in Madden 24. 

So, that’s just me warning you that the Blitzing is probably going to be the same. 

10. Aggressive Catch 

At number ten, we have Aggressive Catching and coming back to the ball.

In Madden 23, this was very important. In Madden 24, it is no different. And especially because, like I keep saying, their animations are better, their reaction time is better. 

For the defense, you need to be able to click on to your receiver, press triangle or Y and come back to the ball before the Man Defender is able to break up the pass. That’s going to be a huge deal to beat Man Defense along with the type of routes you have in abilities.

But most of the time, you want to click onto your receiver and come back to the ball.