First Off-Screen NBA Live 18 Screenshot

[TecmoZack]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bolt957

This screenshot is solid, although LeBron's stance kinda portrays him like an action figure lol. Bradley seems to look like himself, and I notice the crowd wearing the "All In" shirts.

I thought that was a nice touch as well.

[TalenT]

Please be good! Please be good! Please be good!

[poloelite]

I haven't been a fan of Live in a long time, but I'm not a ***** either. Their screenshots usually always look good when EA releases them, my main gripe has been how it looks and animates when I play it. I'll reserve critique for the first actual gameplay video.

[Kazin]

Quote: Originally Posted by coolcras7

They did not skip a year by choose, the game was not ready to be released last year, from this photo lighting looks good, sweat looks good and the crowd look great. Player models was always live strenght, and with players getting scanned for a few years now as long as they are not created players they will look fine. It all comes down to gameplay.

They did choose to skip the year. There was never an NBA Live 17 game that just "wasn't ready". They knew they needed a long development cycle to compete with 2K and EA as a corporation gave it to them. Back in 2015.

[wimp14]

After 2k17 and all the crazy shot changes. Please NBA live give me a reason to switch.

[Kazin]

Quote: Originally Posted by authentic

I'm guessing they took a year off to implement Frostbite as the engine. I'd be a little disappointed if they didn't. Sent from my iPhone using Operation Sports

A basketball stadium does not have thousands of blades of grass to render or 60,000+ fans, or any weather or atmosphere lighting to worry about (day/night,etc).
That's why they chose to do PGA Golf first, then Soccer, then Football. The bigger and more outdoors the environment is, the more Frostbite makes sense.

This is why NHL and NBA Live are the last ones to get Frostbite, they have the least to gain.

Whenever Frostbite does come to NBA Live, it's not going to improve the graphics much, if at all, and will probably set the gameplay and animations back a bit. So, you should probably be grateful that they decided to focus on gameplay and animations instead of some fancy pants engine.

[pies]

the two screenshots I've seen both have Lebron in them, could the chosen one be the cover guy?

[GisherJohn24]

NBA 14 had nice screen shots too. So let's all keep that in mind. Graphics has never been the problem for Live. So tread softly..