NBA Live 10 Hands-On Preview (IGN)

[Haval93]

IGN has posted their hands-on preview of NBA Live 10.

Quote:

"Shooting is all handled by one button this year. No more separate jump shot and dunk buttons as in the past. NBA Live 10 handles each contextually depending on where you are on the court, your left stick positioning, and whether you're holding down on turbo. From my experience it works well and behaves pretty much in line with what you'd want. If you drive to the basket and flick to the left or right on the stick, you'll get a pro hop layup to either side when you press the shot button. General jump shots are now a timed release. Gone are the days of just holding down the button and hoping for the best (thank goodness). Fade aways are still a simple button hold, but I'll take what I can get. This new shooting method presents some difficulties if you've never shot with a specific player before. Different NBA stars have longer jump shot animations so you'll need to practice a bit to nail the timing perfectly. One cool addition to shooting that I nearly forgot to mention is that you can hold up on the left stick while you're shooting a jumper and your player will bank it off the glass ala Tim Duncan."

[PuntNL]

This is just crazy... off to read again...

[Kully]

Wow, another? Nice.

[Stumbleweed]

Ahhh, information overload. I wish there was a "head exploding" smiley to express my sentiment visually.

EDIT: When you use the pick and roll you'll also see the defensive help rotations that were missing when I first played NBA 2K10. In NBA Live 10 defenses rotate realistically and you'll have a tough time scoring, even with a perfectly executed pick and roll play.

Oh man, just hook it to my veins.

"Dynamic Season Mode" -- well there's our confirmation on the (at least one of them anyway, hopefully there's more) new mode.

Also, they confirmed the demo date as September 10th.

[HoosierDaddy]

Demo out on Sept 10th!

[Kully]

Quote:

Pick and roll is back with a simple hold of the B button (circle on PS3). I've been promised that the pick and roll exploits are gone and there's an illegal screen call that the refs can make if you try and use the mechanic illegally.

Nice. Maybe they can fix the facial animations by release.

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Illegal screens... Oh man I love it

[noshun]

Checking it out.