NBA Live 16 Demo Available For Xbox One and PS4, Post Your Impressions

[JoeDog10]

I finally got a few hours in last night, both offline and with the Pro-Am/Summer Circuit. Some random impressions:

- The game looks great. The players, lighting, arenas, atmosphere, ESPN camera angles...etc. Live does a nice job of immersing you in the game.

- Shooting is SO MUCH BETTER this year. It's a night and day difference. There's so much fluidity and the signature jumpers (at least with the guys I used) look nice. Hitting a jumper just feels great.

- Not only is it easy to call plays, but it's easy to execute them. That's not to say that they always work, but that you don't have to spend 10 of your 24 seconds trying to position your player in the correct area just to get the play started. The off ball movement by the AI is also much improved.

- Others have said this, but the Eurostep and other layup animations are impossible to stop once they get going. The interior defense is extremely lacking, and that's frustrating to see yet again.

- I almost feel like there is a force field that if your defender is "X" amount off a certain player, that player will shoot no matter what. For instance, if you back off LBJ a few feet at the 3-point line, he will shoot it every single time. The same goes for guys like Curry, Klay, etc. Now I realize that playing off Curry and Klay makes no sense, but for guys like LBJ, it kind of ruins the experience for me. Does anyone else have that issue?

- The Summer Circuit is rough, and that has nothing to do with Live. I didn't get to take a single shot in the 5 games that I played last night. Is there a 3 on 3 option in the retail version? I then gave Pro-Am a try with a couple buddies and we had 2 CPU players on our team, and that was an absolute blast.

Overall, I can definitely see me picking this up as my secondary basketball game and me giving it quite a bit of run. BUT...and this is a big BUT...I have to see how the patch is implemented on Day 1. I refuse to rely on promises of future patches and Synergy, because I have been burned too many times in the past.

[Clappington]

Man its gotten to the point on here that I can't block a 5'9 point guard from the laying the ball up its just so weird the position on this game. Wouldn't even lie man I have seen the cheesiest stuff so far I hope they patch the doing behind the back at will and zig zaggin is possible. I got so many clips of me just getting a rebound and going coast 2 coast. Idk I won like 15 straight games carrying the team just doing this all game long scoring like 18-20 each game. I really hope they fix a lot of this stuff for the people who are going to buy this game. Also Im curious to know why they didnt put fouls into the game and games to 21 just way too short for me im a 4Q type of guy though.

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Clappington/video/9749996

[SpritePuck]

Quote: Originally Posted by apollooff320

you don't need no subscription to play online. I don't have one and i'm playing online.

I am dumb, I just assumed I needed PSN subscription to play online. I never checked wonder what other games I have that I can play online without the subscription... I will go try some pro am then.

[Rockie_Fresh88]

The demo ends when the game drops right ? So we won't get the patch

[iFnotWhyNoT]

Quote: Originally Posted by Clappington

Man its gotten to the point on here that I can't block a 5'9 point guard from the laying the ball up its just so weird the position on this game. Wouldn't even lie man I have seen the cheesiest stuff so far I hope they patch the doing behind the back at will and zig zaggin is possible. I got so many clips of me just getting a rebound and going coast 2 coast. Idk I won like 15 straight games carrying the team just doing this all game long scoring like 18-20 each game. I really hope they fix a lot of this stuff for the people who are going to buy this game. Also Im curious to know why they didnt put fouls into the game and games to 21 just way too short for me im a 4Q type of guy though. http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Clappington/video/9749996

lol your clip is my experience with the mode thus far, and if its not a user doing that its Tristan Thompson on summer circuit going coast to coast or crossing over from the perimeter and lebroning.

Yet...I'm still having fun with it when you find smart players. I've accepted the NBA street style gameplay.

[iFnotWhyNoT]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rockie_Fresh88

The demo ends when the game drops right ? So we won't get the patch

Be nice if they could keep the demo alive and sell it for 19.99, id buy it for pro-am only.

[Clappington]

Quote: Originally Posted by iFnotWhyNoT

lol your clip is my experience with the mode thus far, and if its not a user doing that its Tristan Thompson on summer circuit going coast to coast or crossing over from the perimeter and lebroning. Yet...I'm still having fun with it when you find smart players. I've accepted the NBA street style gameplay.

Yea its pretty fun and thats all I ever see is people doing it so I was like well screw it if they going to do it I might as well no point in losing every game gettin cheesed might as well do it back lol.

[iFnotWhyNoT]

By the way what purpose do the refs serve for Pro-Am, is there going to be fouls in the retail version?