NBA Live 09 Gameplay Video (Gametrailers)

[vaballer34]

Quote: Originally Posted by blackngoldfan

Here's some little details I noticed: At 0:47, Odom inbounded the ball while running onto the floor. I haven't seen that before. It looked realistic. At 1:02, there was some excitement on the Warriors bench after the dunk. At 1:35, a player from the Lakers bench seemed to throw up his arms in frustration after the made 3 pointer by Golden State.

All 3 were in NBA 2k8

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and?

[Bornindamecca]

I'm still on the fence. The vid didn't show me anything that changed my opinion one way or another. Showing a bunch of mostly contested jumpers swishing in doesn't really show me much. I'd like to see more random collisions. When Belinelli went for that drive, it looked like he should have been bumped off of his move, but he just seemed to have a protective bubble around him when he spun.

Court spacing looked good. Animations looked better in general, sans that Kobe dunk, as someone previously mentioned. I liked the camera cuts. The sound was great, the chatter, the commentary etc. They should have edited some misses, rebounds and defense into that vid though.

We'll see what the demo has to say.

[vaballer34]

Quote: Originally Posted by blingballa333

that dunk by Kobe was absolutley atrocious! Another showing of weird animations from NBA LIve. It ceraintly does look improved, but it just isn't up to par in the animations department...Something Live needs to learn from 2k.

I agree that Kobe dunk was akward and jerky but its good to see that those weird dunk/layup animations from Live 08 are not as common in 09.

[vaballer34]

Quote: Originally Posted by KDRE_OS

and?

Live 09 does look good and I'm glad to see animations like that in the Live series but they seem to always be a year behind 2k when it comes to gameplay animations and maybe gameplay in general. Before this year Live to me was like Sportscenter...nothing but highlights and focusing on dunks and dribble animations while 2k was close to a real basketball game. I'm just happy to see that Live is becoming more and more like a real basketball game instead of fancy dribbles and dunks.

[jtdribbles25]

Quote: Originally Posted by ICARUS

I really have to give it to 2K there animations are just on another level its not even close. But live looks very good graphically animation wise still needs a ton of work to compete with 2K

took the words outta my mouth. damn, that last shot by belinelli....eeeew!!

[RubenDouglas]

CPU transistion defense... where is it? that has nothing to do with the way these guys were playing and everything to do with the AI of teammates and the CPU team. everyone seems to guard just the man their designated to and not switch?

far too many fastbreak dunks when there are opponents in that vicinity to do something.

also before EVERY game cutscene, there is alot of warping and glitching:


lasts not even half a second but it was in the other nba live vid and is in this one.

moments later its back to where it should be
.. its like they start the replays before the players are fully rendered.. not a good look:


this game needs a mature ratings asap

[Bornindamecca]

Hopefully they fix that before it goes gold.