MM: First and foremost, the core gameplay changes we’ve made in the last two years, the feel of the game on the sticks, the one on one mechanic, actually being able to play defense on the perimeter, and making playing defense actually fun.
What is EA doing with NBA Live 18 to chip away at the lead and take back some of the market? TF: The NBA 2K games have become quite dominant in Basketball Sports game market over the last couple years.
So you could have one career, hence “ The One“, that spans both of those ecosystems. We wanted to take those worlds, because they offer very different ways to play, like viscerally different on the sticks, and we wanted to put them together. Of course there is also The League, which is the NBA. It has celebrities in it, a lot of streetball players, and the level of basketball is incredibly high. This real world Pro-am – which we call the Streets – Circuit that occurs every summer, that NBA players play in, and the play incredibly hard. That’s not really out of the norm in sports games, of course I want to create my character and win championships or whatever it is, so one thing we wanted to bring in is the spectrum of the spectrum of the basketball universe.
When we set up to do that, we wanted to do it a bit differently. Mike Mahar: Essentially, over the span of time that we have been developing the product, 16 to now, we looked at a lot of player motivations, how people like to play these games, one of the most important ways to motivate them is the single character, single player kind of compulsion loop. Tomas Franzese: Why did you guys decide to add The One to NBA Live 18?
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