Here's What Needs To Be Done

User Rating: 4.5 | NBA Live 07 PC
By 76ersBOY | Review Date:
Firstly, EA is $%& lucky that there isnt a 2k version of NBA live available for PC, because they would be out of business. There is a reason the game can only keep the biggest of fans entertained for maybe a quarter. Dynasty mode is worse than ever. The ability to use the Mock Draft offers nothing, I have more fun reading real rookie reports, which feature stats, rankings, pictures, bio's, and possibly videos; NOT JUST NAMES IN A USELESS LIST. The addition of the "Pick Grade" and the fact that only 3 players chosen by the PC are over an F is god aweful. Scouting is useless in that it gives a letter grade for stats, ironicly the game givs 3 little notes ton their 3 non F picks, scouted or not. Players are worse depending on their "grade". so just take who the game says. Some rookies names are announced, but only in game, others are never mentioned. There are horific inconsistancies in players ratings, for example numerous oplayers have abysmal FG ratings but acceptable 3pt ratings, automatically. Leandro Barbosa has only a 56 in FG, and Iguadala a 61. Morale just means that your team makes stupid mistakes and cannot accomplish the simplest of taks when its necessary. superstars are barely capable of connecting(excluding scorers). I desperatly want back he cut-scenes and magazines from older versions. Chemistry is unpredictable, random and irritating. Many times players will be hated for no reason, or just decide to hate everyone else. All in all if EA thought thet basketball was worth an iota of the effort given to MAdden the game would be much better. Features that might help and are definately possible
- Ability to hire head coaches(since when does every team keep the same exact coaching system 25 years running, its ridiculous)
- Announce all rookie names(available in NHL 06)
- Relocation and jersey editing(available in Madden and NBA Live 2000)
- Newspapers(Madden 07)
- During Draft Trades(Still Madden 07)
- Ability to trade for a mid-level exception(how hard could this be)
- Ability to put out a rumor(similar to trade block)
- ANY consistancy between rumors and what happens(if not possible cut the ^&*%@ rumors)
- CPU transactions{Signing different players when a big contract expires - why can they resing anyone they want after the free agency, we cant}(again, it happens in Madden)
- Real reasons for unwillingness to resing(when I can sign A-Mo for 9.8 mil but cant sign a 450k contract because it exceedes salary cap there is a problem)
-CPU trades(why is it that maybe 3 CPU trades hapen per year)
- Short term contracts and veteran minimum(not very hard, they only say how long the non existant vet min would be for)
- NO MORE RATING INCONSISTANCIES(players should NEVER be better at 3pt that FG)
- Gameplay that doesnt break my hands(MAdden is fair, and I dont pound my hands through my desk out of frustration every 2 minutes)
- Switch to the 2006 superstar repley(Last year they were slow and had agreat views, only occasional not seeing rim; this year we never see the shot go down, watch everything facing the player from birds eye and it goes in fastforward overly zoomed in)

All in all this game bores the living $%^$& out of my I could desing a must better game if I had EA's resources and a year to work on it. If there were any other PC option I'd take it. A 3 year old knows this game sucks. My question, what makes Madden soo much more important than NBA Live in that one is fun and the other is 40 dollar firewood.

Oy and fix the replays so that it doesnt take 20 minutes to rotate without getting a birds eye view)

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