EA Gives Basketball Another Shot

Posted By ''giant bomb staff''? Doesn't that mean that Drew and Jason were both involved in uploading the video?

Here we go again....

Well, at least they got proper cloth physics this time.

Digital Nate Robinson demands both of their attention

Well, it certainly looks better.

Does this game have virtual Shaq and Ernie Johnson in it? If not then i am not buying

Yikes... even the short animations in the trailer look jerky and unnatural.

Xbox exclusive Ballmer commentary

Queue rap music, show angry people...we've got a basketball game all!!!!!

They sure can't afford to screw this one up.

I like how this series is so embarassing that it is posted by "Giant Bomb Staff" rather than a person.

This should be entertaining for all the wrong reasons. Even if it is somehow not terrible, who cares? It'll take years and years before anyone has any respect for this franchise again.

I'M CLICKING BUT IT DOES NOTHING

Dwight Howard, man that looks terrible. His face looks like they took it off a NBA 2k1 character model.

You're different? How different?

pretty good trailer. now lets see how it plays, thats usually where they fail.

Last year's game had

Jalen Rose

Awkwardly trying to string sentences together.

At halftime.

Let's take a look at last year's halftime presentation

From NBA Live 14:

Commentary like this is all about timing

And effort

As you can see in these highlights.

Once you got past the sluggish controls, and the patch came out. 14 wasn't a bad game, me and my friends had a pretty good time with it. I cant wait for Live and 2K

I love how their theme song is "I'm different, ya I'm different."

Let's focus on the shoe design some more.

Who though that this would be a good idea? Wow.

Did they ever fix '14? Didn't they promise to do that first?

I'll pass.

I always liked the way the players looked compared to 2k, gameplay not so much

This looks nothinglike that other basketball game.

I just came here to welcome Giant Bomb Staff to the site.

So incoming apology letter on October 17th?

Huh... well at least the player models don't look like ass this time.

Improvements!

If lost all faith in EA as a developer last year all of there games were horribly broken and this year they all look to be striped down for DLC

Oh this is gonna jolly...

That's a hilariously appropriate song choice.

cant wait to play this once it's on EA Access for free.

Don't you pay for EA Access?

You know what's different? Using Phil Collins in a trailer for your basketball game. You know what's not different? This trailer.

lmao 2 Chainz

looks quite a bit better than last year at least

Compared to the 2k15 trailer this looks like dogshit.

Nate Robinson huh? Interesting.

Looking at how much money they make in the Ultimate Team mode in Fifa and NFL I can see them trying it every single year and in case mid termed still can't compete with NBA 2k from a quality and sales perspective to aim for exclusivity on the NBA license.

I really want this to be a good game so 2k has some competition. I really felt like they phoned in on 2k14 because they knew people had to go to them to play virtual basketball.

I'm shocked that EA keeps trying the NBA thing. It's going to be tough to beat 2K at this point.

Who's Giant Bomb Staff? Another new hire?

And look, no actual gameplay. Surprise, surprise.

Where be ma Jesus Pose Ballers?

The whole Giant Bomb staff is in agreement that EA is indeed giving basketball another shot, and that this is indeed the first NBA Live 15 trailer.

Looks pretty crappy to me. The jerseys look all kinds of wrong, the players also barely resemble themselves, their limbs look really unrealistic, a bunch of dunks that have been used in previous NBA Live games that are never done in real life games. Yeah, I'll probably just stick with NBA 2k.

Sorry but this looks like crap still...No different. Look at how their hands don't touch the rim when they dunk.

My thoughts exactly. Was laughing pretty hard that whole trailer

Graphics look like what 2K had on the last generation...

Psst EA, Nate is donning the number 5 next season, Afflalo in 10....

You're thinking of another borked EA franchise. They promised to fix Battlefield 4 before releasing Hardline. Or you could be right, I dunno.

@mrsmiley: yeah this looks like shit. decently polished shit.

Lots of guys I know are really excited because Damian Lillard is on the cover and he played for my local university, Weber State. I gently reminded them that NBA Live got a 36 on Metacritic last year, so it's unfortunate that he's on the cover of a bad game. Still, it's cool to get that kind of bigger attention I guess.

As someone who plays 2K basically every year, I will give EA credit here, this is a marked improvement visually over Live 14. I know that's not much of a benchmark, but most of the players here look spot on and the animation seems better. Glad to see them climbing out of the hole. More competition is always good for the consumer.