NBA Live 15 is as basic as it gets when it comes to a sports game. Sure, it has a couple of fun features with careers and ultimate team modes but the gameplay itself doesn't hold up to make this a game worth replaying.
With frequent glitches and unpredictable shots, NBA Live 15 takes the realism of sports games to a lower level. Visually, NBA Live 15 has a lot of potential. However, considering the astounding graphics and gameplay that the PS4 and Xbox One are capable of, the entirety of the game almost feels like a letdown. If this game had more time to develop, I believe it would've been a lot more well done.
NBA Live 15 is a basketball simulation video game for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One released on October 28, 2014 in North America and released on October 31, 2014 in Europe. NBA Live 15 features Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers as its cover athlete. EA SPORTS™ NBA LIVE 15. NBA LIVE 15 arrives with the most photo-realistic visuals in franchise history and 500+ core gameplay improvements delivering a truly fluid, fun and authentic basketball gaming experience.
Unfortunately, what we have is a game that seems right on the cusp of being good and players deserve better.
System: PS4, Xbox One.Dev: EA TiburonPub: Electronic ArtsRelease: October 28, 2014Players: 1 (2+ Online)Screen Resolution: 480p-1080pOne potential bright spot—other than the fact that players can pick whatever Jordan brand shoe they want right off the bat in Rising Star—is the Big Moments mode. You might compare it to the old Jordan Moments feature in NBA 2K11 where players had the opportunity to carry out some of Jordan’s biggest on court moments, but this included some newer situations (Carmelo Anthony’s third quarter explosion a year ago, for example), and I had a lot of fun with it for a little while. Obviously this isn’t enough to move a game from “meh” to “great,” but having the chance to go into some of the more memorable basketball scenes in recent history and try and carry them out on your own is still a cool feature to have, especially since it is carried out relatively well and without too much of a headache along the way.All in all, NBA Live 15 is a definite upgrade over the previous year’s edition, but again, that really isn’t saying much.
I did my best to play through this game and review it without any comparison in my mind, but I realized after a little while that such a task is almost impossible. After all, we always have foundations set in our minds by other gaming experiences, and it would be foolish to pretend that something else doesn’t exist when it not only does, but exists and succeeds in ways that the game in front of us does not. Where 2K15 overwhelms me still with its plethora of gaming modes and malleability in almost every respect, Live 15 underwhelms as a ho-hum basketball title that continues to ride the coat tails of its competitor and its past. Whether this should spell the end of hoops games from EA or not I’m not able to say here, but I do believe one thing—if people were hoping that this would be the game to strike fear into the hearts of 2K developers, they inevitably will be disappointed.ByAdam SchechterContributing WriterDate: October 28, 2014.