NBA Live 10 gameplay footage hits the hardwood

by Randy Nelson on Jul 27th 2009 10:25PM

You were probably expecting the first gameplay footage of NBA Live 10 to feature a reenactment of the 2009 NBA Finals match-up between the LA Lakers and the Orlando Magic, but it doesn't.

It seems at first glance to be the Eastern Conference Finals between the Magic and the Cleveland Cavaliers. But wait -- Shaq's in the game! He wasn't traded to the Cavs until after the Finals, so we can only guess this is one of those crazy "What If?" scenarios. (Or, more likely, EA wanted the game's debut video to include the power couple of Shaq and LeBron James.)

Time-traveling Shaq aside, it looks good to us. What's your first impression of EA's latest hoops sim?

Tags: ea, ea-sports, electronic-arts, Microsoft, NBA-live, NBA-live-10, video, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (56)

2k10 already won, c''mon EA.....this game should have been revamped (new engine and all) ages ago....I haven't played it since 2006.......IT'S JUST NOT AS GOOD!!!

OH..AND THE MAGIC ARE TOAST NEXT SEASON.

"the power couple of Shaq and LeBron James"

ROFL Cleveland will be again dispatched (again by the Magic) out of the playoffs next year.

Yeah, the slow engine, poor animation transitions, poor collision detection, and retardo ball physics are once again covered up by jump-cuts and flashes on the screen.

Thanks for another round of SHIT, EA.

Well if this game truly reveals the future, then this is a must buy for me as playing as dwade passing to odom who then sends it to boozer for the game winning shot in American Airlines Arena will be fun to play again and again and again...by the way....go heat!!!

I'd rather wait to 2K10 so i can play a Timmy-Tony Parker pick-n-roll on the Odom-less Lakers @ Staples.

Go revamped Spurs!

Finally....another Spurs fan. GO SPURS!

OMG!! Two other Spurs fans, in one place! I must be dreaming!

Now that we got Richard Jefferson, and Ginobili back from injury. IT'S A WRAP!!

XBL GAMERTAG: SanFranJunglist add me!

instead of lamar, you'll end up with artest ripping someone's head off. and the Lakers still might sign the guy.

I'll concede that if the Lakers sign Odom, they have the best chance in the West to get to the Finals.... but, without him? 2nd round and that is it. The Spurs are to loaded to lose to an Odom-less Lakers.

All-Star starting line-up, deep bench, young blood, excellent coach and championship experience equal championship run.

this footage came out 3 days on friday! saw it at ign friday.

Go back to IGN.

weak, 2K will be better by far. plus i want the locker.

So instead of the obvious explanation that the video is using current rosters and projecting a future matchup (like every year) you come up with time traveling Shaq? I guess you just missed the two Vince Carter dunks or the fact that the trailer ends with him next to Dwight.

Or they don't really care that much... because it's NBA Live...

2K > shit > Live

NBA Live '96 owns all

Nba 2k9 have better graphics than this!!let see the how is the gameplay maybe i buy it

lol, this is it? Really? Where's the detail? Nobody on the baselines? Bleh, everything looked the same...everything about this game needs to go back to the drawing board; 2K has killed it since day 1...their worst version is still better than EAs best thus far.

...and this is just to save my password.

LeBron pulled a Triple H

12 seconds in

I really hate to be one of 'those guys', but your avatar is totally metal.
ASATTN. Now you'll never forget.
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Still ok...But is it 2k 10 already won?

EA ? Do you think?

No. Just another yearly $60 investment... for what?........

How about EA takes some years off, make a really solid game, and move to a new "yearly DLC" model? ..........Makes sense to me.... create a new game every few years and offer new rosters and other updates via DLC......I'm just really sick of seeing these sports games churn out BS like clockwork when I know the devs could make some gems if given proper time.

its not about making gems.. its about making cash. if people will buy these things every year, why not keep producing them?

EA might take your advice if sales decline, but it's unlikely with titles like Madden. As long as there are Frat houses and the like, sports games will be crapped out every year.

These sports games are the same every year, with minor upgrades. I bought NBA Live 2006 for $10 and played NBA Live 2008 a month later, and I didn't notice any differences besides change in menu, and graphical upgrades.

These yearly games at $60 dollars are mainly for enthusiast, otherwise for casual players of sports games, buying an older version is almost the same as buying the newer version for a lot less.

Hmm 3 million DLC packs a year or 3 million 60 dollar games a year?

2k might do it though.

Graphics suck!

Just for the record the game is only 70% complete and I didn't know there were so many Live haters, they always had the edge over 2K in graphics all they need is gameplay

"they always had the edge over 2k in graphics." You're joking right?

Gotsta be joking!

Cause the last time live had the edge was MAYBE '05! Even then i dont think so.

The character models look very bad. They are all very slender and there is no difference in body build...heck I had to see it twice to notice Shaq was there ( I realized after reading the post). The modeling reminds me of Sony's NBA series where there is also no real difference in body build (just talking about the body types here).

The player's movements are nowhere near 2K's. Live's movement looks robotic, awkward and kinda floaty (from the video), 2K's animations are so good that if you see someone playing from afar you would think it's live footage. I don't know how you can say that Live has the edge graphically...the only thing I can think of is the face rendering, specifically the eyes area...when you see 2K's player up close they look kinda weird...maybe Live has a slight edge there.

If you really want to judge go to:

http://insideblog.easports.com/archive/2009/07/25/nba-live-10-swagga-like-us.aspx

live, still looking cartoony and non-real like always. since when has verajao and dwight moved as fast as lebron?

I agree, it looked pretty fake, they need to start from scratch, their collision engine looks ridiculous, its like all players are giant square blocks crashing on each other. Terrible.

as I said on another reply, I do think Live's faces look better than 2K's what I don't like is the animations and character modeling as each player seems to have about the same body build. Look at Shaq in the video above, not even when he was a rookie did he look so slender.

No, they always had the edge... sure some players did look awkward but the ones that they nailed look amazing and hopefully there are more of those this year which that appears to be the case... 2K needs to fix its online last year was just horrible enough to make me consider Live

I dont know why all the hubub with folks, like you said, 2K's online was trash to me also.
Not to mention the off controls with ball handling. 2k controls could use "some" work.

Look at Carmelo's picture and tell me that is not the best/most accurate looking Carmelo in any game

http://insideblog.easports.com/archive/2009/07/25/nba-live-10-swagga-like-us.aspx

true, but it doesnt matter since live still looks horrible in motion, 2ks animations flow like butter. lives are awkward and goofy as hell

Nevertheless, I am looking to buy the best "sim" game out there whether it is made by 2K or EA

Every year?

Seriously, when it comes to most EA games, I just chuck the money I would have spent in my savings account, and I don't look back.

the best "sim" is 2k since live hasnt been sim since.....?

listen bud. graphics arent about screenshots. graphics are about the game in motion and the animations.

nba lives animations are awful, they are choppy, slow, and extremely awkward. in motion, the game looks like its 30 frames per second.

2k9 may not look as good while in still mode, but who sits and stares at the game while its paused? LOL.

2k9 has the most amazing animations, everything looks so fluid and it flows together well, every movement of the ball and players is natural and not awkward. in live u can be walking and then all of a sudden do some crazy windmill reallllly fast, and it looks retarded. stuff like that almost never happens in 2k.

nobody would mistake Live for a real basketball game on TV because of how cartoony the animations are.

"all they need" is gameplay? thats something they've been trying to get right since 2005. face it. Live has SUCKED since its inception on the next gen consoles, gameplay cant be done overnight, thats the BIGGEST PART of the game! 2k has had that forever!

Have you even played both of them?

I agree, am not saying that their animations don't suck because honestly they do suck along with their gameplay, but 2k does has its share of problems such as sliding, a few bad animations, the execution of plays is bad compared to Live and a horrible online (they had it right till 2k9). I am not a Live fan, I have not owned a Live game since 2K has come into the picture but I rented Live 09 and its not as BAD as you guys make it look sure it does have its problems. When 2k9 came out it was probably the worst buy ever, the game was released literally broken and it took them months to fix a few. That's why I am now considering Live 10, besides they got Mike Wang and from how low Live has been there's nowhere to go but up

BTW learn the meaning of graphics, buddy... you contradicted yourself

a time traveling Shaq is the best kind of Shaq

I'm waiting on 2K to see what they got this year. EA always shows off what they got first while 2k sits back and watches and then drops the big bomb after the EA hype. I've gotten every NBA 2k GAME since the first dreamcast version. I'm not about to switch over now.

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