cheater1034 wrote:Did you play the same demo I did? Because I got the skate, nba 08, and stuntman demos all downloaded today too.
skate is amazing I love it.
NBA 08 is awful, I put up almost 50 with lebron and only missed 2 shots the entire game. I was UNSTOPPABLE from mid-range.
* Sony is sticking with NBA 07's gameplay engine and it looks like they made little to no improvements with it. In the NBA 07 demo I put up the same big numbers with d. wade.
* If I stood at the top of the key for the full 24 second shot clock, You would see different players including little guys like tony parker go in the alley oop catch animation. It's ridiculous, that's ALL they do. They don't set screens, they jump for alley oops and wait for a pass. That's awful.
* Passing is awful because every time I press X (even if it's beyond mid court for a fast break) it goes towards the player who's going for an alley oop (because someone ALWAYS is going for an alley oop). I wanted to pass the ball down court, after i inbounded I press X and I somehow complete a full court alley oop lol.
* I like the detail in the crowd and on the court (the thunder sticks were AWESOME imo, every cavs game they have them behind the basket when you shoot free throws, that was a nice touch)
* Animations suck, there is no such thing as a set shot in nba 08, it's always goes into a leg kick or off balance shot.
* Player detail sucks (arena and crowd are amazing IMO), but player detail sucks, the jerseys all look like they have the same incorrectly sized numbers.
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This game is awful, I think you're smoking something.
I played skate quite a bit so far though, I enjoy it a lot.
Few things -
First of all, I think that the demo is on rookie level so I'm not disappointed from how easy it is. I'm sure that on other levels it will be much more difficult.
About the alley oop - I didn't had this problem at all.Check if your R2 button is stuck. My players didn't make even one Alley oop unless I pressed on R2 button.
About strategy and other options - check the controller setup and see what are your other options. For instance - press on the Triangle to commit a special pass. If you press R2+triangle it will commit special Alley opp.
My thoughts about the game were that it it fun, the graphics looks great and it is refreshing for me to see another NBA game. Untill recently I only played NBA games on my PC.