NBA Live 14: New Dribble Moves Information Released

[RipCityAndy]

I like how quickly the players execute their dribble moves and change of direction. Over the last three years I never felt a legitimate quickness when playing as a ball handler in 2k... this looks fun.

[DKHardee]

i can't see it. Keeps showing the pre-video advertisement over and over.

[thesniper321]

NOW this looks way better than that trailer , you have my attention again ea

[Sundown]

This doesn't look bad at all. Actually it looks very good.

I'm going to compare against the other product as a reference--

It looks like it combines the old signature setups from previous 2K's that were lost with Pro Stick dribbling, with something similar to the current Pro Stick system.

Then it allows for branching out of those signature chains at any point the player has the ball.

Level 1 dribbles seem to correspond to 2K's standing/walking dribbles.

Level 2 dribbles seem to correspond to 2K's chains/launches off hesitations as well as turbo-escape dribbles. Not sure there is as much variety as 2K has.

Level 3 dribbles have no 2K analog (for current gen anyway). 2K takes the approach of having short quick simple dribbles that you can create your own "sig chains" and combos but they don't really look like actual sig chains of real players.

All sizeup animations seem to be captured and rigged with proper foot planting, at least when there is no defensive pressure. The other game still has issues with this.

Finally it adds ball physics through BounceTek (which is really not a huge deal, as the other game doesn't have much or any ball warping as is and was a bigger problem in Live).

So sizeups should look and feel stellar.

However, they didn't seem to show (as far as I could tell) how branching out of sig dribbles looks. They also didn't show any dribbling on the move, some of which we know looks bad, and which we also know has limited options based on BoilerBuzz's experience at E3. I suspect it still looks and feels the same as we didn't see much dribbling on the move in the trailer with a game that's trying to feature its dribbling model.

We also don't know what the dribbling looks like once a defender crowds the dribbler. It's very possible that it either looks bad or the defender isn't allowed to crowd too closely or ride the dribbler to "break" the sizeup feature.

At any rate, this sizeup system looks like it could be solid and quite good, or even very good.

[sirjam]

Quote: Originally Posted by DKHardee

i can't see it. Keeps showing the pre-video advertisement over and over.

I had to go to youtube to see it

[Sundown]

Quote: Originally Posted by RipCityAndy

I like how quickly the players execute their dribble moves and change of direction. Over the last three years I never felt a legitimate quickness when playing as a ball handler in 2k... this looks fun.

Actually we have no idea how Live feels either. The video still shows dribbling in place and no actual launches. 2K also has some quick animations in their sizeup, hesitations, and escape dribbles, especially this years' escape dribbles that get real separation.

[DruBreeze]

Looks good when your standing in one place and dribbling. Live does that well. But let me how smooth they look when your moving and need to change direction on a dime. That's always plagued live...think I'm lying? Look at DRose in the trailer.

[La Verite]

Quote: Originally Posted by ghettogeeksta

Lol, even they know the player movement doesn't look fluid besides when you're standing in one place dribbling. They could have at least showed him moving around while pulling off some dribbling moves but they are afraid to.

I think there giving you details blow by blow