Play Of the Day from IGN 9 gameplay vids

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0S68 ... RHY3P9OCA8

Here's a zip file of all the videos. It's 52mb.

The videos lookl pretty good. He is over-doing the passing, but it didn't look like it gave him too much of an advantage.

i like how joe johnson did the trademark celebration after his jumpshot....he did the dog thing like QRich does....that was ill hope to see more celebrations like dat...the game looks like a much improved version of 05...everyhting looks cleaner and less cluttered...i like how the floor is spaced out....the moves are way mroe clear...and the collisions are much more detailed and realistic....in 05 for example the block animations...though too there were toomay blocks...were nice animations but the were cluttered and somtimes on a block from behing it would seem as if a player piunned the balled to the backboard and it went straight through and out of bounds....now the blocks look cleaner and u can see wat happens...other then looking much cleaner the game looks pretty much the same...which is definitly not a bad thing...i think thsi will be the best NBA Live in a while...i gave up on the series after the bullshit they release in 2001...i was playin 2k until 2005 came out...2k had some great games until 2003 but they turned to shit...liveis headed in a great directions...sad that it seems some people are dissapointed with live....coming from someone that understands both game franchises very well ill let u know that live right now is two steps ahead of any game...and the new 2k is not going to imprve enough b\to be as good as live

all joe did was clap... he didnt do the head-pound... his hands were open



that pass ridnour did at the end was sick

all joe did was clap... he didnt do the head-pound... his hands were open

yeah true. D-Miles has been doin that in games tho lol. hes the man.

The gameplay looks exactly the same as 2005. Same animations, same everything. Looks like they focused solely on graphics this year - and even that doesn't seem to be much improved over 05.

The gameplay looks exactly the same as 2005. Same animations, same everything. Looks like they focused solely on graphics this year - and even that doesn't seem to be much improved over 05.

same everything? i dont see the lame things that 2005 had. such as all the blocks on the perimeter... and fast breaks were in last years game? HA thats laughable!

I don't get blocked on the perimiter in 2005. If you play the game properly that won't happen. Fast breaks work in 05, but I haven't seen a vid for 06 where fast breaks look any different.

To say that 06 looks drastically different from 05 based on the videos that have been released is just wrong.

Agree with ask1... I downloaded 2 of the video's and now I wish I hadn't. The movement of the players is absolutely abysmal, it's like they're pucks on an air hockey table or something. The retarded behind the head pass to Radmanovic who then dunked it over an entire frontcourt was stupid too but I'm hoping that's mostly just down to difficulty mode. That being said, difficulty modes or not the pass didn't look fluid with the gameplay at all. Awell, I'll still buy it.

I don't get blocked on the perimiter in 2005. If you play the game properly that won't happen. Fast breaks work in 05, but I haven't seen a vid for 06 where fast breaks look any different.

To say that 06 looks drastically different from 05 based on the videos that have been released is just wrong.

Actually, to me that's good. I didn't want them to go over-board fixing things. That would turn the game into Live 2003.

I'm not saying they should turn the game into Live 2003. But there are plently of problems with the "feel" of 2005 that don't appear to be corrected based on the videos for 06.

What is disturbing is that the superstar freestyle thing seems to be EA's primary marketing point. Keeping your follow through after a shot, and behind the back passes may add to the polish of the game, but they don't add anything to the gameplay. These are just superficial changes.

We won't know for sure until we get our hands on the game. I just would have liked to have seen more gameplay and AI improvements at this point.

Well, at least the computer looked like that actually knew how to run the break, which was good

Why Does SHAWN MARION SHOOTS THE BALL NORMALLY AND NOT FROM DA BELLY?! SOMEBODY GOT AN ANSWER FOR ME???

MAN THIS GAME SUCKS.

They probably didn't want to create a new shot animation for just one player.

Well, I'm going to analize this from another perspective:

We all agree that this is Live 05 with some changes. Everybody here likes live 2005, more or less, but likes. We still will be able to patch this game. Well, so now I'm going to say what I think they improved for NBA Live 2005 vol 2:

- Better graphics with more smooth animations, even that sometimes players glide.
- They improved a lot of animations if you see well, every passes and animations of every player on the floor.
- Now fastbreaks exist, wich makes game WAAAAAY better than last year.
- Adding Freestyle superstar is not bad or may cause unrealistic play: what it does is that it lets you to choose who are the stars of your team, what are their roles, and you can personalize your unique gameplay.
- Playbook returns, that's amazing.

Things I didn't like:

- In all the videos I've seen , I think that will be a HUGE problem about dunks, if we don't edit dunkpacks the first day. I mean: Felton is a good dunker, but in NCAA I've only saw him doing normal dunks, and no jumping people; I don't remember Fortson dunking, and if he can dunk, I'm sure that he can't perform that type of dunks. I think we have to get back with this aspect of the game to Live 2004. But as we can change it, it's not a big problem.
- Again ballet-layups, doing spins in the air with slow players ( Radmanovic )
- The shooters superstar moves, really... I don't get them useful, look at the video dedicated to them.


CONCLUSION: If we are playing live 2005 now, wont we like to play a lot better version ?

It's only my opinion.

Why Does SHAWN MARION SHOOTS THE BALL NORMALLY AND NOT FROM DA BELLY?! SOMEBODY GOT AN ANSWER FOR ME???

MAN THIS GAME SUCKS.

yeah it does, we all agree with you. Now please leave.

Why Does SHAWN MARION SHOOTS THE BALL NORMALLY AND NOT FROM DA BELLY?! SOMEBODY GOT AN ANSWER FOR ME???

MAN THIS GAME SUCKS.

Has any basketball game had Marion or Shaq shoot properly yet? No, so if that's your biggest problem with the game, then you just won't be playing any basketball games this year.

EDIT: Okay, I realized that if you read the article before, the guy specifically states that he's showing off the passing on the game, so never mind about the complaints on that.

I really likes these videos.

* The Ray Allen leaner was awesome and smooth.

* The Up and under layup finally looks real.

I like how most of the moves seem pretty fluid. Also, really liked how you can see the replay only if you want to.

Does the superstar thing pop up as soon as someone recieves the ball? I think it did. Did anyone notice the Lewis did not have one. (I may be wrong) It's not right that Luke has one and Lewis does not. He should be a scorer or shooter.

I think the game will be fun to play.

Fgrep15, dude your right. If those fucks at IGN's wanted to show off just the passing why not use the Nets or something. Idiots!!!

Why Does SHAWN MARION SHOOTS THE BALL NORMALLY AND NOT FROM DA BELLY?! SOMEBODY GOT AN ANSWER FOR ME???

MAN THIS GAME SUCKS.

Apparently it's due to memory limitations on the current generation of consoles. That would suggest that the next-gen consoles will mean we'll start seeing the in-depth detail like individual (or at least a few very distinct) shooting forms.