NBA Live 09 Preview

[Spectre]

Quote: Originally Posted by rspencer86

...Which would be great. We could have two very solid NBA games on our hands this year.

Competition = good

It's a shame that there isn't competition in the NFL title- I bet the improvements we're finally seeing in Madden would have come about much, much quicker

[texbuk84]

i hope and pray live will be good this year for live fans but i think that in reality this game will not be good because they need to scrap that engine that they are using and start over. its not that the game suck, its just that the game engine, animations, physics, and technology is outta whack. i believe that it can get better just not with this gameplay engine.

[BiggD]

Quote: Originally Posted by edubbs

Yeah that's all I'm asking for this year. The NBA2K series is very good but, I would also like to have a different sports game in my 360 for a change. No matter how good a game is, you will grow 'somewhat' tired of it eventually. Especially, if you have been playing that game and only that game for 3 years straight because of the lack of other quality titles. Having Live 'hopefully' step up this year would give me that other option. The sports games on NextGen (Live, Madden,NCAA) have been VERY dissapointing to this point IMO. However, it looks like Madden will be much improved, I'm not too sure about NCAA after playing the demo, and Live 'may' have finally turned the corner. Having NBA2K9, Madden09, and Live09 all being good titles this year would be great. It's been 3 years in a row now that one title (nba2k) has been the only reason I play my 360. I'm banking on this year being different.

i feel the same way... variety is the spice of life! would be good to have a choice in ball games

[Shinyhubcaps]

I'm not sure about this super secret feature, but one preview included some information that this one did not. There is supposed to be a mode, like a Superstar mode (but hopefully not like Madden's Superstar mode) where you can take control of an active player or rookie.

[rspencer86]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shinyhubcaps

I'm not sure about this super secret feature, but one preview included some information that this one did not. There is supposed to be a mode, like a Superstar mode (but hopefully not like Madden's Superstar mode) where you can take control of an active player or rookie.

EA has acknowledged that NBA Live 09 will have a "Be The Pro" mode, so I'm thinking that this is not the "super secret feature."

[Hassan Darkside]

Quote: Originally Posted by rspencer86

EA has acknowledged that NBA Live 09 will have a "Be The Pro" mode, so I'm thinking that this is not the "super secret feature."

I thought IGN broke that news but EA disregarded that news as false and said there was no "Be the pro" or superstar type mode.

[rspencer86]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruff Ryder

I thought IGN broke that news but EA disregarded that news as false and said there was no "Be the pro" or superstar type mode.

I don't know about all of that, but "Be a Pro" mode was specifically mentioned by the dev giving the NBA Live 09 presentation at the media event in May and has been mentioned in their Producer Blog as well.

[Hassan Darkside]

Well whatever "Be-a-pro" is it's not a superstar mode because one of the EA Devs on the EA forums said, "Sorry, no superstar mode this year. We’ve been working on something new this year that we’re pretty excited about. Unfortunately, I’m not allowed to talk about it now because I probably wouldn’t have a job tomorrow if I did. We’ll be announcing it at E3. We’re pretty sure it’ll change the way sports games are made."