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06/07
NBA Live 2008: Dunks and Layups now back to one button
According to Brian Ullrich, lead producer for NBA Live 2008, one of the things they looked into this year is the remapping of layups and dunks into 1 button. Some fans hated it the two button config of Live 2007 while others loved it. Ultimately, the decision to move layups and dunks back to one button were the in game occurrences of a non dunker trying to dunk the ball (and failing miserably) when he should have just tried to do a layup.
Imagine a point guard like Steve Nash driving down the lane, the player mistakenly presses the dunk button instead of the layup button and you get a awkward animation of Nash trying to be like Mike but fumbling the ball instead. The real life Nash wouldn't attempt to dunk the ball, he probably would try to get an arching Teardrop or a fingeroll instead. I believe the remapping is better overall since it relies on the new and improved contextual system in Nba Live 2008. More about the new contextual system in later updates.
Dunking has always been one of the best things about NBA LIVE. In fact, past versions of LIVE have done it so well,,that driving to the basket became too easy, and a little unrealistic in the process. This year we knew we needed to make a lot of improvements to dunks and lay-ups, especially under the basket. The first thing we fixed was some of the more frustrating issues like warping to the hoop on dunks and players dunking through the rim and backboard. We also tuned the numbers on missed dunks and lay-ups as this was happening way too often. While all of these things made dunking in the game a whole lot better, the biggest change we wanted to make was to really tighten things up defensively in the lane, and make dunks and lay-ups as realistic as possible. We felt it was too easy to get to the hoop, and once someone beat the first defender there was no way to stop a player from going right to the basket
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grant
June 17, 2007
1:58 pm
i have been waiting for years for nba live to have more action like if you make a shot at the buzzer that the ref thinks it over on the reply that tey need to add more time on the clock and also when you are in the finals in the dynasty mode and you are champs that the first game the following year it shows you getting your rings and you can also make your rings and they showed also so make you make your own player and try to be a hall a famer and that in the dynasty mode you get to see the sstarting 5 for both teams and you get to drive the players to the games and the plane too. oh one more thing you get to see them come off the bus and kids trying to get there signature and have the players looking real because tyrus thomas was looking real made on the replys. and also have the teams going to other countries and playing there and if you are the best coach in the 4 years you get to pick how goes on the usa team and you can make your own teams and on jerseys for the usa team too thank you for your time and please put this in to your mide because i hade people sign there names up for this and it’s over 500 hundred people
grant
June 17, 2007
2:00 pm
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grant
June 17, 2007
2:05 pm
i like nba live 2008 but have the usa team and have the refs add 1.9 seconds back on the board because of a bad call have where they show you your rings after a champion win and you can make teams and jerseys and where you can be a player out off college going into the draft like madden i like the new way for the game nice
Adde
December 5, 2007
8:13 am
I enjoy all the new features of NBA Live 08 on my XBox360. However, I have a problem finding one move in the guide.
Despite great efforts I can’t seem to set a screen while playing offence (playing with on the same team with my friend). I was woundering if someone could help me out.
I think the b-button did the job in the 07 and 06 versions.
JOHN
September 12, 2008
3:32 pm
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JOHN
September 12, 2008
3:34 pm
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