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- The latest video for NHL 09 focuses on the new features. Combined with the previous Hockey League trailer you’ve got an impressive overview of what to expect this year.
- IGN has a new video detailing the changes to GamerNet for Tiger Woods 09. The instant challenges should be a nice addition and the simultaneous online play will be especially welcome.
- Gamespot has posted up two new videos from NBA Live 09. They show some pregame footage (though the introductions are skipped), the flipping through some of the DNA screens in the menu and about a minute of gameplay including commentary. Interestingly the tip-off has changed since the community event where it was a low camera angled up instead of an overhead camera as seen now. The first video can be found here and the second here.
- I was surprised to stumble upon the cover for Madden 09 En Espanol which is set to release in mid-September. Bears G Roberto Garza is the cover athlete. *Insert Madden curse reference here*. At least this year the cover isn’t graced by an admitted past steroid user.
August 4, 2008 at 3:50 pm
hopefully bears wont do shitty this year…
August 4, 2008 at 3:58 pm
They will suck BIG TIME!!! Go Vikings!
August 4, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Rex Grossman or Kyle Orton at QB hmmmm……of course the Bears are gonna be horrible with those two bums leading the team
August 4, 2008 at 4:02 pm
a lineman on the cover. never thought that would happen
August 4, 2008 at 4:07 pm
[quote comment="30825"]a lineman on the cover. never thought that would happen[/quote]
First year for a offensive lineman.. thats crazy i never thought it would happen either
August 4, 2008 at 4:24 pm
IF UR NOT FIRST UR LAST
August 4, 2008 at 4:36 pm
they should just put Tui on the cover
August 4, 2008 at 4:41 pm
dont really care for the spanish version just as long as we dont see o-lineman on the real game then im happy
August 4, 2008 at 4:45 pm
[quote comment="30829"]IF UR NOT FIRST UR LAST[/quote]
IF UR NOT LAST UR FIRST
August 4, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Martin Gramattica declined to be on the cover he was quoted saying that ” i’ve been cursed one to many times in my life”
August 4, 2008 at 5:17 pm
wow
roberto garza
as a bears fan i wonder, “why on earth would ANYBODY want HIM on the cover?”
August 4, 2008 at 6:42 pm
IF UR NOT 1ST UR LAST
August 4, 2008 at 6:48 pm
well neither vid showed a whole LOT but wut dey showed looked good not ______ wit 2K GOOD but good
August 4, 2008 at 7:51 pm
ok sdot stop ur such a fan boy its not even funny stop posting negative comments ur jusy some keyboard warrior so stop
August 4, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Fam STOP replying 2 me i’m NOT talkin 2 YOU besides U not changing NUTTIN i’m doin so wutz da point of ur messages
the audacity of dis coward callin me a fanboy when he’s da 1 gettin tight cuz I AIN’T on da EA BAND WAGON
August 4, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Live looks decent but the D is still lacking and the players look stiff. I b glad when they return 2 their days of 05 when the game was great. 2k is still king, im jus trippn cus live is jus now puttn in the dancing females cheerleaders when 2k was doin that on current gen? hmmm
August 4, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I can see that nba live 09 could be a good game this year I just cant wait for the demos to come out so that I can really get a feel for how the games play.
August 4, 2008 at 9:05 pm
nba 2k9 gameplay footage from e3:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.multiplayer.it%2farticolo.php%3fid%3d26766
August 4, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Dude. This is America. English is the common language. There shouldn’t be a Spanish Madden in America. Ea is just contributing to the problem of people not being able to assimilate in this society. English should be the Official Language.
August 4, 2008 at 10:00 pm
lol at least they dont have to look at favre when ever they play madden!
August 4, 2008 at 10:09 pm
[quote comment="30852"]Dude. This is America. English is the common language. There shouldn’t be a Spanish Madden in America. Ea is just contributing to the problem of people not being able to assimilate in this society. English should be the Official Language.[/quote]
Wow is ppl like you that make the rest of the world hate us… its not a problem, our country is a “melting pot” and always will be. English is the most common language but EA is trying to appeal to the ones who cant speak english, spanish speaking ppl have every right to have madden en espanol and no they shouldnt have to learn english, it should be a choice (that is what our country is based on!)
August 4, 2008 at 10:13 pm
anyways… is about time they put an OLineman on the cover, they really are the ones who dont get the respect they should be getting. I just wish that one year they should put one on the american version even though they should have put one on for the year they added the lead blocker feature. I would luv to see jason peters on the cover… that guys a mammoth
August 4, 2008 at 10:23 pm
agentk GOOD LOOK on the vid even in this early build of the game you can see diff in the level of EXCITEMENT from the fans & I like the lil spin move Paul was doing in the vid & KG wit those sig taunts
August 4, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Props to Garza and the rest of the guys who play the most underrated position in football. Guard.
August 5, 2008 at 4:02 am
Saw the 2K9 preview video. Some things that I liked:
1. The crowd. The folks at the garden were really getting into the game and the runt the Celtics were on.
2. Kevin Garnett’s emotion. That was a nice additon.
3. Improved graphics, but still nowhere near Lives. Those screen shots that we saw had to have been an artist rendition. The graphics aren’t anywhere near the level of the screen shots that 2K posted. They did the same thing last year as well.
Things I didn’t like:
Sliding. I hate this about 2K games. How can you do cross over after cross over, in the lane, with a defender in front of you and not get bumped, moved or anything?
Offense: Perhaps this is a demo, but a pretty basic motion offense was ran, which is pass it around the wings or dump it inside.
Graphics: Even though I liked the improved graphics, I don’t like the fact that the screen shots were misleading and some players appeared too bulky.
Couldn’t get much else from the demo really. It was pretty long, but both teams were player controlled.
2K9 looks like its an improvement from 2K8, but hopefully brings more innovation to the table.
August 5, 2008 at 4:46 am
Interesting that Garza made the cover. I see him on Telemnundo all the time.
August 5, 2008 at 5:22 am
those SCREEN SHOTS were REAL that’s an EARLY BUILD of the GAME don’t ya’ll READ any thing NON EA related
I mean they had the fans wit the where #1 FOAM FINGERS & no PETEY PABLO when I saw those HELICOPTERS
now as far as the crossover reference it’s a DEMO their 4 it would be on a LOW SETTING def PRO or LOWER plus their is NO way that N E 1 that says LIVE looks good can complain about 2K being EZ 2 get in the LANE I mean just look at that GPAY vid 4 LIVE every1 was driving to the lane ie TONY, IGGY, etc
DAMN CAN’T wait 2 see MCELTIC utubes vids 4 dis yr game cuz his 2K8 vids were H.O
August 5, 2008 at 8:20 am
the lob pass on live 09 really must be fixed. that looks horrible
August 5, 2008 at 10:24 am
[quote comment="30852"]Dude. This is America. English is the common language. There shouldn’t be a Spanish Madden in America. Ea is just contributing to the problem of people not being able to assimilate in this society. English should be the Official Language.[/quote]
First of all, America is a group of countries that go from Canada to Argentina. Second of all, you know that EA sends copies of madden around the world right? And people in latin america watch the games with spanish speaking commentators right? So having Raul Allegre or Alvaro Martin commentating on Madden 09 would be much more real for this audience than 2 broadcasters that they probably have never heard before…
August 5, 2008 at 11:11 am
[quote comment="30855"][quote comment="30852"]Dude. This is America. English is the common language. There shouldn’t be a Spanish Madden in America. Ea is just contributing to the problem of people not being able to assimilate in this society. English should be the Official Language.[/quote]
Wow is ppl like you that make the rest of the world hate us… its not a problem, our country is a “melting pot” and always will be. English is the most common language but EA is trying to appeal to the ones who cant speak english, spanish speaking ppl have every right to have madden en espanol and no they shouldnt have to learn english, it should be a choice (that is what our country is based on!)[/quote]
James,
Nix flutz blarney quando flue. That was my response to you. It is my own made-up languge (actually, I stole it from a George Carlin bit). The point of my foolishness is that everybody having their own language is obviously not a good idea and wouldn’t work in our society.
Also, you should research the “melting pot” concept. The idea of the melting pot, as it pertains to American Culture, is that the melting pot melts down all metals (a metaphor for cultures) in to one singular mass. This means that cultures coming into this country assimilate to the mass, and the mass takes on some of their properties. The larger the mass (at this point, the US is pretty large), the fewer of the properties from the new material will be absorbed. What you suggest (everybody speak any language that they want) is not a melting pot, but a bag of marbles.
That said, I have absolutely no problem with Madden in Spanish. If market research says that they can make a profit by releasing the game in Sanskrit, then I’m all for that too.
August 5, 2008 at 1:31 pm
pasta,
can you please tell EA that they need to fix the lob pass problem. in the videos, it hapenned two times. if those passes were bullet passes, then the player would have scored much more easily
August 5, 2008 at 6:23 pm
@ james
You are a fool.