I’m upset to give such a poor review as I was very excited for this game.. The new animations are nice and they are appreciated, game play wise it feels extremely clunky on offense. Somehow even clunkier than last year the run game is improved at the expense of having animations rule the pass game.. and speed as always. The defense of madden 23 I enjoyed, this year is complete animation war every play each drive. Not as rag doll like necessarily, the defensive backs are better at playing the ball and arguably even catching the ball than wide receivers which always seems to be the case for some reason which obviously doesn’t add up. I spent a lot of my time throwing my hands up as my Qb softly jogged when trying to scramble from guys sprinting at him. Unfortunately just a worse version of madden 23 with pretty animations. Very bad game for 70 dollars.