NBA Live 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[thedream2k13]

Quote: Originally Posted by CaliDude916

2K has never played realistically, and it never will. Players are uncontrollable because they are to loose, once you get going one way, it's impossible to go the other. Players sliding around the court, getting sucked into animations, making every 3 you put up, ghost fouls, I could go on and on.

Yet your avatar is a 2k NEXTGEN pic and if u had the ps4 version you would be amazed at the player control and gameplay

[otek]

Live 14 plays similar to NBA 2k14 on iPad. PERIOD
Bravo EA.

[Drewski]

Played one quarter and couldn't finish the demo game. Backed out and decided to try Resogun with my spare time (don't have much nowadays and couldn't justify another minute playing Live).

I popped the Live demo in immediately after finishing up a game in 2K and... well. My brother and I played, so I did not play against AI.

• The crowd, arena and environment felt dead. Playing in MSG felt like playing in a high-school gymnasium. This isn't immersive, this is depressive.
  
• There is absolutely no fluidity between animations and the visuals pull you out of the experience. The game is clearly lacking transitional animations and it's glaring.
  
• The ball floats on passes and shots. The ball doesn't look natural once it leaves the shooters' hands, and it's hard to explain what exactly it looks like. I guess the best way to put it is it looks like it's being shot from a slingshot, not being released from a player's hands.
  
• Players are indistinguishable while playing aside from Melo (head band) and Tyson Chandler (large).
  
• Sliding is everywhere. This does not have the control that 2K has and it really isn't even close.
  
• The commentary is disconnected and is not warm. It feels like a video game picking through a few quotes. You can feel the stop and start.

I will not play the demo again, and I wouldn't bother playing this game if it was given to me for free. There's a clearly superior product out there and EA didn't bring the fire, let alone matches to start one.

Good day good sirs.

[RipCityAndy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Melbournelad

I nominate this for one of the top ten worst posts on OS.

Looks like you haven't read enough OS posts

[MEEKS973]

Finally got to the demo.

I'd give the game a 6/10. The game seems fun and if you actually learn how to play, I believe the game could be a solid one. There are some things in the game a patch can and can't fix. I'm glad ea got the product out and let guys play it and give their feedback. Hopefully they come back with a better game for live 15, if there will be one.
As far as graphics go. I don't really see them improving player models. I believe that is EA models. I'm interested to see how they go about that next year

[Earl1963]

No wonder this game was such a secret. Played the demo and it was pretty horrible.

+atmosphere, swish of the net, floor spacing.

-everything else you can think of.

This game should have been cancelled.

[RipCityAndy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Melbournelad

I nominate this for one of the best posts in the Live forum.

Looks like you haven't read enough good OS posts either

[nick_sr]

if only you guys can see the smile on my face. never in my wildest dreams did I ever think live was going to be this good. live 14 is exactly how basketball should be played. Just wish ea could do something with the speed of the game.