NBA Live 14 Audio Interview with Sean O'Brien

[Psunami]

SportsGamerBlog.com recently sat down with Sean O'Brien, executive producer of NBA Live 14, for an interview.

In the interview O'Brien talks about his background with EA Sports, the pressure of rebuilding the franchise to start. Discussion then goes into potential for a PC version, ESPN integration, title updates, and what it means for the game to be more data driven versus code based.

It's a quick interview well worth a listen!

[franzis]

sounds promising but Ì cannot stream now...can u sum it up ? Tks

[Psunami]

5-on-5 gameplay (no 1-on-1, 2-on-2 or streetball)
Live 14 is using data from Synergy Sports Technologies. That data is used to drive the AI.
Franchise mode is included
Very regular updates (replay segments of certain games - For example, a player goes off in a game, can you replicate that)
Breen and Van Gundy for play-by-play
Jalen Rose doing content on a weekly basis to be entered into the game. (Talking about specific players doing well or badly, calling out people playing the game talking about achievements that they have completed in the game.)
Game was put together with the Ignite engine in approximately 10 months
No smartglass or Vita integration

[DIRK41NOWITZKI]

They finally spilled the beans on their "ESPN" secret.

[oasis90]

So no crew mode.. Well, no game for me.

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[bigeastbumrush]

Excellent podcast.

-Sean O'Brien confirms that there will be a full feature demo released for Live 14.

-Playcalling is 3-tiered (sounds similar to Live 10 with basic plays and then player specific plays).

-ESPN integration includes Jalen Rose doing the menu walk-thrus and highlights of other your game and other games. EA Sports contracted Jalen to come in every week and record content for them. This will include him talking about people at the top of leaderboards and things relative to the season.

-Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy are the in-game commentators.

[the_future420]

The stream keeps cutting out and for some reason I can't click the download link

[seanhazz1]

Quote: Originally Posted by oasis90

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Isn't "crew mode" five on five gameplay too?