The “NBA Live” franchise is trying to make a comeback and they’re enlisting the help of a more successful EA Sports counterpart, according to News10.net.
“NBA Live 14” executive producer Sean O’Brien recently said his team will be bringing on their colleagues over at EA Sports’ “FIFA.”
"There are certain elements of when you're creating a sports video game that are relevant to the sport; there are certain elements that are relative to understanding technology and game design," explained O'Brien. "So Gary Patterson, our Senior Creative Director has that experience with FIFA - understanding what momentum means to gameplay, understanding what control means to gameplay, understanding our toolset. He's a very technical designer."
“FIFA” has been more popular and prosperous than “NBA Live”, which hasn’t put a title out in three years. O’Brien hopes the FIFA team can bring some of that prosperity over to his game.
"For us, it helps our basketball-specific guys to understand what that benchmark for quality is," the executive producer added. "Understand where we need to focus to bring out those basketball-type features that we want to do with dribbling, with shooting, with passing, rebounding - those core fundamentals. So, his knowledge and experience and expertise is incredible for us."
If the “NBA Live” team is trying to make a comeback, they are off to a good start. The team recently did a Twitter Q&A with gamers in which many of the “NBA Live 14” features were revealed. Among the highlights were 40 different player packages, complete with specific/authentic moves, for ballers such as Carmelo Anthony. It also has team-specific playbooks and presentation by ESPN TV.
“NBA Live 14” will only be released on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The game is expected to hit stores later this year.
