NBA Elite 11 Made Official

by pastapadre
Posted June 2nd, 2010 at 9:38 am

Last week the news broke that the NBA Live series was getting a name change to NBA Elite. Along with that would be the addition of real-time physics and a focus on analog controls. Today EA Sports made it all official.

The new real-time physics system in NBA ELITE 11 allows each player on the court to move independently of one another, removing the two-man interactions that have long taken the user control out of basketball simulation videogames. In addition, a new skill-based shooting system requires accurate user input, based on a player’s position on the court, versus the randomly generated dice rolls that have driven shooting in basketball videogames in the past.

“NBA ELITE 11 will give gamers the same skill set that a pro basketball player has at his disposal,” said David Littman, Creative Director, NBA ELITE 11. “This is the first basketball simulation videogame where you are controlling every movement, dribble move, shot, dunk, lay-up, steal and block in real time with one-to-one control. You’re no longer going to push a button and watch the computer generate a long animation sequence. It is like being on a basketball court with an amazing set of skills. This is going to change what people have come to expect from a basketball simulation videogame.”

So there will be even more than shooting added to the right stick as it will be used for just about every function. I’d imagine that freestyle passing will stay on the stick as well. Having all of those functions mapped to the stick will probably further alienate those who didn’t like the idea of even adding shooting to the stick to begin with. I’d currently count myself amongst that group but recognize it will have to be played before making any sort of final determination on the decision.

EA Sports has successfully rebranded sports series in the past with the most recent examples being Triple Play Baseball to MVP Baseball and Knockout Kings to Fight Night. In both of those cases the shift reinvigorated the franchise. The same could not be said for March Madness which became NCAA Basketball and has since been canceled. That though was not so much rebranding (it didn’t receive any additional support) but instead taking advantage of having the license to themselves after 2K Sports bowed out as competition.

Just yesterday I posted up the results of the polls regarding the early news on NBA Elite 11. Does any of the additional info provided today change your early perception or expectations of the game at all? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

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Kris

sounds great, cant wait to try it all out
Hoss

really not interested in using the stick to do everything. ill just change back to the buttons then.
808

Such a great advancement that the idea of it caused the top guy to quit huh? I dont believe this is going to make the game better. But the physics could.
Pbe

okay question… Analog controls lol? 2k uses that to shoot and dunk and such… Y is this so much news? You have posted this crap many times about nba elite, face it… EA controls football, 2k controls Basketball lol… Nothing new about analog controls Pasta, Stop it
http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

2K uses the stick to shoot. It does not use the stick for all the functions that EA is planning with here. Basically EA wants you to be able to play the game really without even using the buttons. I'm not a fan of it but we'll see.
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skihawks

I may be buying my first pro hoops game in years….Can't wait to see and try it…
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Nbaer

I will pass on buying this, and will instead be buying 2k11.
Flossbee

I like what I've heard thus far. It seems they aiming to give the user unprecedented contol and thats what I like in my video games, “Control.” Its main the reason I've preferred the Live series over 2K for the last to years. The controls in Live just feel much more responsive than 2K. With all the options they are giving the user with the right stick I believe its safe to say this game is going to be heavy on shoulder button modifers.

Anyway, I'm liking the new physics engine too. I'm curious as to how a new physics engine made it into EA's hockey and basketball games this season but not their football games?This leads me to be almost certain that Madden 12 will have a new physics engine also.
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Zach-Perez/100000322088447 Zach Perez

i swear i hate morons on you.. bro why dont you just wait and see both games before u go on saying what you will pass on. you havnt seen either game yet but apparently youve made up your mind on what game you going to buy. god i sware they should put people like you in a gas chamber and watch your eyes bleed
Juduking

Who cares what they name it, its still garbage, the players look like gumbee on the court and everything about their animations look unrealistic. I would rather have the plethora of shots available to me on the right stick, rather than the crap street ball dribbling you get on the right stick with this game. Pass, pass, and double pass. 2K for me again this year thank you.
DaAbstract

AGAIN EA HAS NOT LEARNED FROM THERE MISTAKES..THIS GAME WILL BE A BIG FAILURE..THE SAME WAY THAT FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4 WAS…IF THE FACE BUTTONS ARE NOT AN OPTION TO SHOOT, PASS, AND STEAL THIS GAME WILL BE TERRIBLE…
Langs13

So this is the last year for NBA live
http://www.facebook.com/people/Craig-Langston/1380793236 Craig Langston

I've played EA games since Bird vs Magic. They haven't made a playable basketball game since 1999. I made the switch with the original 2k on Dreamcast. It's not a stretch to see which game to get. That's eleven years of EA being the inferior product.

As hard as Pasta tries it's not EA's. You can't take a guy serious that would waste his time on inferior products like NBA Live 08 instead of playing the greatest basketball simulation of our time with 2k8 because a company gives him freebies. Loyalty leads to stupidity.

Do you work for EA or something or are you just a fan boy like Pasta.

Why wold it bother you. Aren't there more important things in life to send people to gas chambers for . Like saying torture works or starting illegal wars that kill hundreds of thousands for lies.

Seriously dude. Get a grip.
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http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

You don't like the animations then you should credit them for getting rid of them and instituting the real-time physics. The abundance of animations in 2K is probably what it gets pinged for the most the last few years.
http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

Im confident they'll include a button control option. They aren't going to make that same mistake twice.
Daleyt002

As usual the hype machine at EA is in full swing. These guys really know how to grab us every year. The ultimate question is whether they can deliver on that hype. This is uncharted territory for EA going with real time physics so I am wondering whether there will be alot of kinks to work out.

Either way EA has demonstrated the committment to move forward so I will give them an “A” for effort and see how the game plays out.
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Keith.

“The new real-time physics system in NBA ELITE 11 allows each player on the court to move independently of one another, removing the two-man interactions that have long taken the user control out of basketball simulation videogames.”

What? I remember EA touting their new “all 5 guys move independently from each other” feature a couple of years ago? Was that empty hype then? Or are we getting empty hype now?
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Greg

LOL look in the gallery and go to NBA ELITE 11
http://www.facebook.com/Gerardtaylor88 Gerard Yourflyness Taylor

the difference between what EA has said so far and what 2k has done in the past, is ea is trying to take most canned animations out of the game while you can almost predict that 2k is going to flood the game with unbreakable animations again… i cant wait to see how this plays out
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Juduking

I will give them credit when they change my mind about the direction theyre taking. They can say all they want about changing things and making it “more” realistic, but until I see a finished product that proves that EA isnt just talking the talk, then I will sway my decision on how their game looks to me. Its just like Madden, they tell us year in and year out that this is the year things will be better and they keep shoving the same crap game down our throats and we just keep paying for it.
Jspfitness

http://www.thesportsgameguy.com/2-basketball/nb…

so….here are the first few screenshots…this looks terrible.
http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

I'm pretty sure I didn't play Live 08 or NBA 2K8 very much, though I liked College Hoops 2K8 a lot. I got into Live 08 when they patched in Online Team Play which was awesome. And BTW I don't get the games free so you can quit with that crap lol.
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I can't disagree with what you said. I'm not buying into what they're saying so far (there is just something about how they're phrasing things turning me off). I have to see it in action.
Mr. Templeton

Other than '06 and '07, I've always liked the EA basketball series more. 2K honestly needs to smoothen out its gameplay. Its entirely too sluggish and lacks responsiveness. If only the game played like the those cute animations, it would be excellent.
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http://twitter.com/jonathanglapion Jonathan Glapion

This news is actually welcoming to me…i'm hearing the word simulation and in relation to real time physics and analog sticks, this sounds great. It'll be interesting to see how this new concept gels with DNA. I'm still waiting on the news that they have finally rebuilt dynasty mode from the ground up.
http://twitter.com/jonathanglapion Jonathan Glapion

Did you read the article before you decided to get all defensive? I think we all no 2K uses the analog stick to shoot. Whats your point? Is it news? Um well lets see, Live has never used the sticks for shooting so yeah i think it is news.

Why are you telling him to stop it, seriously? This is HIS site on which he gathers and posts information to inform those who come to his site. It would make more sense for you to actually STOP coming to his site, right?
http://twitter.com/jonathanglapion Jonathan Glapion

dude get use to it…. the guy is a 2K fan. Typically nothing wrong with being a fan of one game over the other. But these guys are like the nut jobs who blow up abortion clinics. You will never make sense of their nonsense. It's a fire storm over a game they won't buy nor play every year.
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