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Hot Spots from NBA Live 08 demo
I went ahead and took screenshots of the Hot Spots for all the players from the four teams featured in the demo. Click the player names to view their Hot Spot image. Cleveland Cavaliers Lebron James - Zydrunas Ilgauskas - Larry Hughes - Drew Gooden - Eric Snow - Donyell Marshall - Damon Jones - Daniel Gibson - Ira Newble - Shannon Brown San Antonio Spurs Tony Parker - Tim Duncan - Manu Ginobli - Michael Finley - Robert Horry - Bruce Bowen - Fabricio Oberto - Francisco Elson...
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Demo for NBA Live 08 now available
With just under four weeks to go until release (October 2nd) the NBA Live 08 demo has made its way out for the 360. It can be found now on the Xbox Live Marketplace. It is also now up on the PS3 as well. A rematch of the NBA Finals is featured as the Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs are selectable (along with France and Spain of FIBA) with a half at 2 minute quarters. The download comes in at 562.57 MB. Feel free to post your impressions by leaving a comment or discuss i...
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Madden 08 roster update coming Thursday
EA is set to release another roster update on Thursday September 6th for Madden 08 to coincide with the start of the NFL season. Rosters should reflect the moves made through the final cuts from this past weekend. This update is confirmed to include the removal of Michael Vick from the rosters. Update: As of the early AM hours on September 7th the new rosters are available for the 360 and PS3! ...
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More NBA Live 08 online league details
Earlier today I wrote an article with one of the topics being the leagues in NBA Live 08. While some of the details on them were known, others still hadn't been addressed. Since then I was able to gather this additional information from EA. Each member plays up to X number of games against each other member of the league, where X is an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7, 9 or 11) chosen at league creation. Games are schedule-free: just see who's online at the same time as you are, and pl...
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NBA Live 08 Hot Spots and online leagues discussed
A new preview of NBA Live 08 has been posted by 1up. While it is very brief it does contain some impressions on the Hot Spots feature and reiterates the thoughts I had on it. Hot Spots for each shooter are accessible with the press of a bumper, but the problem is that there's no subtlety -- since they're glaringly obvious, your defenders also know where your hot spots are. We dig NBA 2K8's treatment of hot spots better (a tiny meter shows you when you go to one on the court). Goin...
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Feature list for FIFA 08
EA Sports has released the full feature list for the upcoming FIFA 08 on the 360, PS3, and Wii. While the up to 10 individual users in online games will be a downloadable addition weeks following the release of the game (360/PS3 only) the following features will be available out of the box. 360/PS3 620 licensed teams, 30 official leagues, and more than 15,000 players. Clinical Finishing — A true next-generation ball-striking engine calculates shot success by combining an almos...
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Photo Face still unavailable for Tiger Woods 08
Updating previous articles on 8/30 and 8/28, the EA Sports World site is still not functioning thus preventing consumers from utilizing the Photo Face feature in Tiger Woods 08. There is now a new message that states the max number of connections has been exceeded. Occasionally I have been able to log in, however the process of creating a photo face has never completed. It is amusing seeing commercials advertising the feature and Tiger Woods promoting it even though it hasn't worked sinc...
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First NBA 2K8 trailer
The first official trailer for NBA 2K8 is out and you can watch it below. Outside of some apparent sliding it looked pretty good. You wouldn't expect anything less from these type of trailers though since they're manufactured for the hype. All the features and improvements that were talked about previously will have to be seen and evaluated from a gameplay perspective. That is probably still a week or two away....
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