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$8.99
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| Published by | Electronic Arts |
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| ASIN | B000QB059E |
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With more features, Electronic Arts brings basketball action (and control) as a new reality in your home. Why just watch when you can be in the game! NBA Elevate Your Game in NBA Live 08. With Total Freestyle Control, pull off moves only the pros perform as you replicate the playing styles of your favorite NBA players. Elevate to the rim for an electrifying dunk and bring the crowd to its feet, or look to your superstars to shift momentum with the game on the line. Featuring revolutionary gameplay, complete with ultra-realistic player moves and emotions, the hardwood is yours for the taking. The cover of EA NBA Live 08 will feature Agent Zero (Gilbert Arenas). Analysts Greg Anthony and Ernie Johnson call the action as you showcase your skills in the Slam Dunk Contest and 3 Point Shootout Have your own NBA All-Star Weekend, with the Rookie Challenge and NBA All-Star Game Former Chicago Bulls star Steve Kerr joins the legendary Marv Albert courtside -- together they call all the action from the best seats in the house
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Customer Reviews - courtesy of Amazon.com
NBA Live gets worse each year
This game is a joke. Seriously. If you're any kind of basketball fan, you can't seriously like this. First, they don't adjust many of the player ratings from like 2005. I own that game, too, and Carlos Boozer is still rated 73, while Kirilenko is still rated 88. Hmmmm. Plus, the collision detection is awful and the gameplay is just sloppy and frustrating.
I used to be a huge fan, but Live has just gotten more and more insulting each year. Do yourself a favor and get NBA 2K9 if you want a good basketball PC game.
EA needs to really wake up and really listen to customers
I "loved" the live series. The best one was 2005 in my opinion. I still play 2005 with updated rosters and player ratings adjusted to current players' abilities. The reason why I mention this is that none of the live series after 2005 really improve the game from 2005, rather, the series gets worse every year. I won't re-list all the issues - I agree with almost all of them. EA will not make any patches, updates for the game because couple months after each live series is out, they are already finished making the next one simply chaning the number Live 08 to 09, 09 to 10 etc. The graphics, game physics, menus, system have not changed in a long time. Sure, it may look a lil better and players get flashy signature moves or "zones" where they are supposed to get "hot" and make lots of shots. None of these things matter unless the game is balanced and actually fun to play. This game has no substance, no replayable value. It gets very boring very fast plus it has all the issues other reviers had mentioned. They should just make one solid game and have users buy patches every year and maybe, update the graphics every 2-3 years. Do not waste your money on this piece of junk. I just gave mine away to my lil cousin.
EA really needs to wake up. I'm so glad the 2k9 came out. I wish EA made this game so that the users have complete freedom. Like changing rosters- if they arn't going to give us roster updates, just at least give us freedom to change it easily. and you know what? Try blocking shots in this game it feels like nothing. EA, please consider firing your current live team.
Very Disappointing
Well, I'm not a big basketball fan, but I thought I would give it a shot. For a game made it 2008 this thing looks absolutely primitive. In the end I just didn't enjoy it.
Best NBA PC Game!!
This is the best NBA basketball computer game out there!! There are many improvements over NBA Live 07. Substitution and fatigue are better.
Commentry is also continuing to excel. In addition, the presentation is very good.
The new feature Hotspots is cool. It indicates where on the floor a player likes to shoot. This makes the game more authentic since players make shots where they do in real life. Red squares indicate where players are hot and blue is where they are cold. However players may occasionally make a shot in their cold spots and miss from their hotspots.
The dunk and lay-up buttons are together again this year, and it makes it better since before when you attempted a lay-up, it always seemed to get blocked, and so that forced you to dunk the ball since there was a greater chance it would go in.
I would recommend this game for any basketball fan. Even if you do not watch the NBA, you can still have fun because of the addition of HotSpots since then you can see where players can shoot. This way you know that players like Shaq are dominant near the basket and Ray Allen can drain threes.
Never have I seen a game written so lazily.
I bought '07 about eight months ago, loved it, but lost it last week. This was $10 at fry's so I bought it. It is almost exactly the same game.
Players:
The biggest downside by far. First off, the ratings didn't change at all. Players like Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge, and David West, who were all rated in the low 70's in '07 should have gone up at least 10. But they have the exact same stats as before, as does just about everyone, even players like Steve Francis (82, has sucked for a few seasons now) and Jalen Rose (71, retired). Also, rookies (half of whom are missing from the game) have completely messed up ratings. Alando Tucker is an 86. Chris Paul is an 85. About 15-20 rookies have messed up ratings like this, in the 80's. That completely screws up dynasty mode if you do a fantasy draft. I had to edit about 150 players total (rookies plus vets with ridiculous ratings) and save the roster just to make dyansty mode not a total joke. It took about 3 hours. Another problem is that pictures weren't updated, which means rookies have no pictures. Not a huge deal, but still it shows how lazy they were in making this game.
Gameplay:
The same as '07. Commentators say pretty much the same stuff, graphics haven't gotten any better.. sure, the graphics aren't bad, and the game is reasonably fun, but it's a new game, shouldn't they have updated it more?
The Good:
I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 for the following reasons:
-The music is absolutely amazing. Mostly underground/indie rap, I absolutely love just about every song.
-Some decent new features. The FIBA tournament is alright, even if the players ratings on teams from other countries are stupid as can be.
-It's still kind of a fun game. It's just about the same as '07.
Bottom line: Wait for '09. I'd be willing to bet that they'll do MUCH more to update next year, because I'm sure they realize how lazy they were in making '08. If you absolutely can't wait, just get '07, you can probably find it for about $5.
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