E3 2005 Day 3

[jmood88]

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Thanks alot for the info. It did seem dissapointing in terms of sports games.

[Fetter21]

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My goodness that was a nice recap Fetter. The only thing that worries me is you hinted at VC not working much on the gameplay.

If the game plays as it did last year, I'd feel burned. Knowing who's working on the project it just cant be the same, but if they improve on whats already in the game and add somethings they took out and add more things (in particular what many have asked for, ie.. playsets, player sliders, etc.., It should be great.

Honestly I can't say how different the game play for 360 will be since I didn't get to play it, but I would expect different gameplay. It will likely be something similar to what you've seen in the past from them since it didn't look like they were starting from scratch. To me that's a good thing since the games already played pretty good. So I'm sure they're working on the gameplay, EA didn't even have any gameplay for NBA Live to show us other than a free throw shot, while 2k6 they were all running around the court, they were topless at the time cause they were still getting their jersey's right (understandable since now all the jersey's are completely seperate from the players bodies. But basically I'd expect 2k to have more time tweeking the gameplay to get things more detailed and dialed in since they had no problem showing the 5 on 5 players on the court actually moving around and playing. Maybe EA already can do that with NBA Live '06 and didn't want to show us all that stuff at E3, but I don't get why if they had it looking good they wouldn't want to show it.

Now as for features, EA basically sounded as if all their games were gonna have less features this year on 360 than the versions on the Xbox and PS2 will have. While 2k sports said that they're 360 games will have more features and extra stuff than their Xbox games. Plus it sounded like they were gonna try to make all of their games work with the xbox camera for the created players, so you can basically add your face to the game. I know they were gonna have it in Top Spin 2 for sure, and they said there was no reason why they shouldn't be able to do that in NBA 2k6.

[jmood88]

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Honestly I can't say how different the game play for 360 will be since I didn't get to play it, but I would expect different gameplay. It will likely be something similar to what you've seen in the past from them since it didn't look like they were starting from scratch. To me that's a good thing since the games already played pretty good. So I'm sure they're working on the gameplay, EA didn't even have any gameplay for NBA Live to show us other than a free throw shot, while 2k6 they were all running around the court, they were topless at the time cause they were still getting their jersey's right (understandable since now all the jersey's are completely seperate from the players bodies. But basically I'd expect 2k to have more time tweeking the gameplay to get things more detailed and dialed in since they had no problem showing the 5 on 5 players on the court actually moving around and playing. Maybe EA already can do that with NBA Live '06 and didn't want to show us all that stuff at E3, but I don't get why if they had it looking good they wouldn't want to show it.

Now as for features, EA basically sounded as if all their games were gonna have less features this year on 360 than the versions on the Xbox and PS2 will have. While 2k sports said that they're 360 games will have more features and extra stuff than their Xbox games. Plus it sounded like they were gonna try to make all of their games work with the xbox camera for the created players, so you can basically add your face to the game. I know they were gonna have it in Top Spin 2 for sure, and they said there was no reason why they shouldn't be able to do that in NBA 2k6.

That sounds great. Thanks for all the information.

[Karlos05]

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Wow it all sounds so good

Thanks for the detailed write-up Fetter

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Much appreciated Fetter! I like the tidbits of info Im getting from VC. I trust the guys opinions here than anywhere. If you said it was good, I believe it. I just hope they can get the gameplay tight and challenging. I'd buy 2 copies if they got it all right, and give the other one away just to support them for making things right.

That camera thing sounds pretty hot too.

[jmc]

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Fetter when they showed you the video for nba 2k6 on xbox 360 did the players move and play more realistically.

[ludacris06]

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NBA2k6 sounds NICE. I can't wait to see it.

Yeah, I liked 2k football the most but now Madden has tooken over which kinda sucks. But hopefully EA won't slack off and actually work on this game... I'll get used to it though

Word.

[nbasuperstar40]

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nice info fetter.