doomocrat

@marino: How many years did it take for that game to have more than two healing sound effects, anyway?

Everyone's hopes were up after Madden 25 was a great year-to-year feature complete upgrade to the new generation, and after the Madden 06 fiasco we all expected EA Sports to be better than this. Sure the game only sells 700k and art assets are expensive, but that's what HUT card money is for.

But then I remembered this is the NBA Live studio and then... welp.

The mere mention of Unrest puts nightmares of frenzied beetles into my bones.

Patch plan summary:

Sept- Playoff mode, BAP coaching while on bench, 3 stars, HUT hud changes

October- Online team play, GM drafting ( A kind of on-the-clock mode, which explains why normal menu drafting may have been cut)

Post release plans released by EA HERE

The hockey part feels pretty good. Goalies are still hilariously weak to the 45 degree backhand, but other than that it's pretty good.

It would be lovely if there was another side, this is just a super stripped product.

The Kotaku article does not have the "No Season Mode" bit so I'm assuming that's available. So it's up to at least Bases Loaded standards.

http://kotaku.com/eas-new-hockey-game-missing-crucial-features-fans-upse-1631260576

This is from the EA access, yes. There's no language calling that version a trial or demo that I've seen, however. I would love to be proven wrong because this is a total bummer.

I like Emrick but not in this game. Increased shot speed is insane. Reoccuring physics/animation bugs are laughable. Interface lag seems like its way more than it needs to be.