NBA Live 10 demo alley-oops its way onto your console

Over the weekend, EA Sports offered a demo of NBA 10 to XBOX Live Gold members. The demo will also be made available on the PLAYSTATION Network and to XBOX Live Silver members this Thursday, Sept. 17. The demo allows gamers to test the waiting area as numerous superstars playing shoot around, including Dwight Howard, Dwayne Wade and Lebron James, among many others. Gamers are able to recreate last year’s NBA Finals choosing your side from the Los Angeles Lakers or the Orlando Magic.

The demo features the ability to play an entire half. Unfortunately for me, I neither enjoy the NBA or basketball video games anymore. However, I downloaded the demo and actually had a pretty good time playing it. Basketball video games try too hard to emulate real life, but I prefer the old school days where you could hack away at someone and steal the ball or throw alley-oops from out of nowhere. Unfortunately, my experience with NBA 10 wasn’t quite the same. I never completed a single alley-oop and fouled the other team nearly every shot. I couldn’t find the flagrant foul button to stop the computer from dunking on me every two seconds either. That being said, I don’t suck at sports games, just every basketball game since NBA Jam Tournament edition.

All of that being out in the open, if you’re a fan of the NBA Live series, or of basketball video games in general, go download the demo. Hell, it’s free! You can’t find much for free these days, so take a basketball demo and like it! Read more about the demo’s features, as well as the new Dynamic DNA rating system in NBA Live 10 in the release below and check out some of the gameplay:

Electronic Arts announced today that a playable demo of NBA LIVE 10 is now available for download on Xbox LIVE™ Marketplace for all Xbox LIVE Gold Subscribers. Play as the Orlando Magic or the Los Angeles Lakers and re-write, or relive, last year’s NBA Finals match-up. The demo will be available to Xbox LIVE Silver members and on the PLAYSTATION® Network™ on September 17th, 2009.

With a renewed focus on creating an authentic 5 on 5 basketball videogame experience, NBA LIVE 10 introduces a myriad of gameplay improvements to the long running franchise. Computer controlled players will now move and react like their real life counterparts with enhanced player A.I. (artificial intelligence), and authentic, team-specific playbooks. In addition, all new dribbling, passing and shooting systems now give users more control over individual players than ever before seen in the franchise. Gamers can now control every movement as they break down a defender on the perimeter, drive to the basket, and finish at the basket using their left or right hand. From dishing no look passes to releasing a step back shot early or late to avoid a block from a defender, NBA LIVE 10 lets you to create highlight reel plays on your terms.

NBA LIVE 10 also features significant improvements in the franchises overall presentation. Arena specific lighting and crowd behaviors, signature pre-game rituals and celebrations, evolving storylines, and an all new broadcast package are just some of the many enhancements that will ensure that NBA LIVE 10 looks and sounds like a real life NBA game.
Powered by Dynamic DNA, NBA LIVE 10 will use the latest stats, rosters and tendencies for all the players and teams in the NBA*. With data supplied by by Synergy Sports Technology – the premier analytics provider for over 25 NBA teams, Dynamic DNA allows NBA LIVE 10 to provide the most authentic basketball simulation experience in a videogame to date.

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