EA Sports: 'How We're Evolving' with Dynamic DNA, All-Play Label Detailed
Former NBA star Bill Walton appeared to help Moore demonstrate NBA Live 09 with two other EA representatives. After Walton's long, long diatribe about sports and NBA ended--"That was completely different than what we did in rehearsal," said Moore--the four showed off the game's Dynamic DNA feature.
NBA Live 09 uses daily statistic updates during the season to bring more realistic player performance to the title.
Referred to as Dynamic DNA, the feature breaks down into three categories: player tendencies, team DNA to show how team interactions differ, and daily roster updates to reflect the latest trades. The data itself hails directly from the NBA.
Moore also detailed the All-Play label for its Wii sports games during its press conference at E3. The label will cover five of its major sports franchises on the Wii, with the goal of making the games more approachable for casual players.
Tiger Woods was demonstrated first. In All-Play mode, wind, club selection and other complicated systems are simply taken out of play, presenting more of a challenge for players who leave it off. A direct putting line was available for the user in All-Play, while it is removed outside of the mode.
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deadhorse
replyDaily statistic updates? Doesn't that negate the majority of additions with the year-by-year sports titles? ;)
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exactly what I was thinking; they won't have to release NBA Live 2010 because NBA Live 09 will have 95% of the updates.
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i dunno how likely, but something like that is possible to an extent. they're well aware that people are pissed off at basically annual roster updates.
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Not really, all they have to do is stop the stat updating after the season is over. To be honest though they really shouldn't turn it off. Instead of making year-by-year titles, they should just go with true game-play improving updates for title releases. I know EA will never do that because they make so much money off the people dumb enough to buy the same game year after year. Also if they switched models they would probably charge a subscription fee for updates past the first year.
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