The current beta only offers games that are exhibited; EA will add more later, and updates are expected to be released in the coming months. This provides enough context to the gameplay as well as the completely shaky presentation (the fake Mut 24 coins, monotonous broadcast style isn't yet kept pace with NFL 2K5 which was released seventeen years ago) to suggest Madden NFL 24 may be a small leap for a game still playing catch-up since the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X first came out.
Brian Murray, who in the past carried camera bodies of 16mm for NFL Films, lowers the camera onto my left shoulder. "This is the same size, weight and balance of a camera I would shoot if I was on an edge again," says Murray, Madden NFL 24's creative director for presentation. Yet it looks nothing like it's camera.
Metal tubes mimic the skeleton and a few dials on the front control things like focus and zoom, but it's mostly open space attached to a large platform. The viewfinder is an iPad, so at least I'm not straining to see. But on that viewing screen the head of team Sean McVay and four or five Los Angeles Rams, coming off the field following the game has ended and which is rendered by Madden. When I move my camera, I'm filming in virtual reality, getting up close to Jalen Ramsay or the Sebastian Joseph-Day and taking pictures of their faces, exactly as if I was wearing the photographer's vest and field pass.
"You might have heard of a small movie called Avatar," Murray jokes. "James Cameron invented a system that let him use a tiny, wired kind of pad and move through his digital characters in that film to get authentic-feeling shots that create a frame for the digital scenes in the film."
Murray is joining EA Sports from NFL Films the league's Emmy award-winning documentary arm, to begin work on 2014's Madden NFL 25. Murray was specifically recruited to help tune the Madden's in-game broadcasts to more closely mimic the type of cinematography football fans have come to expect from the league's biggest games and moments as well as the more dramatic NFL Films cheap madden 24 coins. When he moved into Florida, Murray began implementing the VR filming technique that Cameron was the first to patent. Since since then, Madden's shows are able to capture the same scene from a range of camera angles in a number of different styles, all of which are true to life . It's a way for a variety in the game's presentation.