We’ve made a pretty good game, and we’ve got some compelling new ways to play that are different.” “The one-more-chance pitch,” says Mike Mahar, a senior producer on a franchise that seems to have run out of them, “is we’ve spent the last two years working on the core mechanics, addressing issues that players have brought up - both 2K fans, and our own. Pair that with 12 WNBA teams and, if the gameplay holds up as it did for me at a preview event last week, you could see a legitimate alternative come Sept. There is a reasonable, understandable and very playable game here, especially against NBA 2K’s complicated, pretzel-fingered expectations of player control, and it’s centered on a career mode distinguished more by life outside the NBA than in it. But it’s something with enough guts in it that announcing next year’s edition shouldn’t be a seat-of-the-pants decision before the January investors' meeting.
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Maybe not as a competitor to NBA 2K the way Pro Evolution Soccer is to EA Sports’ FIFA behemoth. It’ll ditch its console launch date and hide out on mobile, like it did for all of 2016.Īfter playing NBA Live 18’s demo, I still get the feeling that the franchise has turned a corner. It’ll come to your home and make promises to your face. NBA Live will take your trust by the wrist, turn your back and plunge a knife into your kidneys. NBA Live’s failures and fits and starts since have stalked my career writing about sports video games, going back to a pitiful demonstration at E3 2010. It remains my greatest professional shame. NBA Live has put me on a limb before, one I swore to God I wouldn’t shimmy out on again.įive years ago, in a hotel room in Portland, Oregon, I thought I saw something good.
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