NBA Live 08 demo up Comments by Robert Purchese

Fiver says it looks worse than 06. Which still looks amazing. And WHERE'S THE FIFA DEMO???

My guess is the game will look pretty... but only when it isn't moving as you can't see all the animation glitches and clipping. Bet it plays poorly too. I'd love to proven wrong but I think the Live series has been in decline for years now. In fact I'm so confident that NBA Live 08 will be average that I've already pre-ordered NBA 2K8 instead, which might not be as graphically impressive at first glance but always plays a far better game of b-ball.

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as relevant to this topic as basketball is to sport.

wtf not in sweden :(

just had a quick go and this seems to be much better than last years episode. Animation is smooth and gameplay is much better with players having areas in which they will score more often than not (hotspots) to get the ball down low to tim duncan and he'll do a shake then drain an hookshot just like in real life

@sniperWolf 400 million might disagree with you however they could fo course have made that figure up ;)

I presume this another EA Sports game that runs at 60 fps this year on the Xbox 360 only.

I'm having to eat my words... this is a vast improvement on last year's glitchy game, it runs at 60 fps and for the first time ever in an NBA Live game on the 360, the camera manages to keep up with the action! This makes a huge difference to the gameplay which is decent this year. I was rather surprised at how good this was actually so now I'm torn between getting this or NBA 2K8... maybe I'll just get both!

P.S. I also tried the PS3 demo (from the US PS Store) and it's inferior graphically with little or no anti-aliasing and a 30 fps framerate which means the game doesn't flow as well as it does on the 360. I guess that's no surprise really judging by most other multiformat games on the PS3 (even Stranglehold looks slightly weaker with poorer AA and framerate "wobbles" in the cinematics). Makes me glad I own both machines really so I can choose although if I only owned a PS3 I probably wouldn't be aware or maybe even care really that the 360 versions were better.

Scratch what I said about the NBA Live 08 demo, apparently according to Peter Moore (now at EA), the PS3 version DOES run at 60 fps but it didn't feel like it to me but if he says it does then so be it, I'm wrong! The AA is still noticeably poorer though.