NBA Live 08 to add online team play
In a surprising move, EA has announced that online team play will be added to NBA Live 08 via a free downloadable update. This will offer a complete five on five experience over 10 different consoles.
Prior to the games starting each individual can choose a position to lock into, or if all 10 slots aren't filled by users you can choose to keep switching between players open during the games. If there are aren't 10 people for a game the open slots will be filled by AI.
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Free downloadable update will allow for 10 players in online FIFA 08 games
Now normally I couldn't care less about FIFA news but this is pretty big and ultimately is a sign of where other sports games will be headed. While it was talked about a while back how the goal was to get to a point in a few years where there would be 11 vs 11 in an online game, it seems they've achieved nearly half of that already. Within 6-8 weeks following the release of FIFA 08, a free downloadable update will become available that will make it possible to have 5 vs 5 (10 consoles) in a...