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Posted: January 20 2006 at 5:57pm | IP Logged Quote GB_Simo

All,

Apologies if I've missed a thread elsewhere, I've had a look back and didn't find anything.  Recently I've been considering adding a basketball title to my collection, and in an idle moment last night ordered ID 2004 for what must be its third stint in the Simpson gaming catalogue.  While I wait for NBA 2K6, due in March over here, I've also bought NBA 2K5 on EBay since I'd read a few positive things about it - the general feeling around these parts seems to be that 2K5 really isn't all it could be but for a couple of quid it won't hurt to see for myself.

Today I found myself dangerously close to buying NBA Live 06 as well.  I'm not sure what purpose 3 basketball titles at once will serve but I did enjoy Live 2005.  I ended up with Madden 06 rather than Live today but I'm looking for a few opinions on it and how it compares to Live 05.  ID 2004 seems to be the hoops game of choice for many - how do people feel Live stacks up against that?  Can anyone help?

On an unrelated note, Madden...played one game, Colts-Jaguars, returned 2 INTs for touchdowns and had a touchdown on a kickoff return but couldn't throw for toffee.  I lost Manning to injury early on and ended up completing 8 of 31 attempts.  The saving grace was that the Jaguars QB couldn't throw either, and at least I had a rushing game to fall back on.  Third down efficiency was anything but too - CPU converted 1 of 14, I converted 1 of 12.  My superstar was a 3rd round pick for the Broncos and I'm having marginally more success throwing the ball (to him, not with him - he's a WR) but I'm some distance away from not being awful.  It's a lot of fun but evidently you need to put the miles in with the vision cone to get any joy from it.

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Posted: January 20 2006 at 7:31pm | IP Logged Quote Jason

I'd be interested in hearing about NBA Live 06 too. I liked 2005 alot but felt that EA took a big step backwards graphically and ruined the default camera view (move it too far back - even with adjustments).. I've watched quite a few videos and 06 definitely looks better but I'm still worried about having the defensive crouch and post up mapped to the analog stick.

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Posted: January 22 2006 at 1:08pm | IP Logged Quote Murph

I like to play using one of the side view cameras, such as 'Press Box' and on the 360 version, the damn camera can't even keep up with the action. It's a beautiful game, but unplayable (for me).

 



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Posted: January 24 2006 at 8:47am | IP Logged Quote Jason

I may pick up NBA Live 06 now that it retails for $30 and use this Best Buy coupon for an additional $10 off.

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Posted: January 24 2006 at 11:16am | IP Logged Quote Ted

If you do let me know so I can add it to my rental que.

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Posted: January 24 2006 at 11:27am | IP Logged Quote Jason

Ted wrote:
If you do let me know so I can add it to my rental que.

Absolutely.

BTW, I like your new forum signature .



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