NBA Jam: On Fire Edition Announced

by pastapadre
Posted April 5th, 2011 at 5:45 pm

Though the confirmation that there will be no NBA sim title released this year was the big news out of EA Sports today they also announced a new version of NBA Jam to release in its place. NBA Jam: On Fire Edition will arrive in the fall as a downloadable offering through Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.

REAL AI: Featuring the ground-breaking AI system used in the Fight Night franchise that learns your tendencies and throws them back in your face.

JAM Arena– Play solo, or team up with friends and take on the world in a new, dynamic online competition.

Road Trip – A cooperative online campaign where you can team up with friends and compete in a series of white-knuckle challenges against the current superstars and timeless legends from each of the 30 NBA Teams.

Tag Mode and Team Fire return! – Swap players “on the fly” and ignite your entire team by performing consecutive cooperative moves!

More NBA JAM Hotness – Online roster updates, more NBA superstars, legendary NBA players, over-the-top animations, JAM challenges, secret teams and unlockable characters than ever before

I don’t fault anyone for being insulted by this announcement, particularly since it comes so soon after EA Sports confirmed they were abandoning consumers on the recent NBA Jam by providing no post-release support not even a single roster update. Now they are touting things like roster updates, and other elements that were inexplicably left out of the last one such as Tag Mode, as new exciting features.

EA should really be a little more mellow in how they market this title than some of the the statements I’ve already seen in the press release and coming from their Twitter accounts. Considering many consumers were disappointed with their first attempt at NBA Jam, to the extent of feeling ripped off, On Fire Edition is going to be a tough sell.

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LorrRen

This is ridiculous. Im actually offended that they would announce this. No EA I will not even consider buying this after you tricked me out of $50 on Jam already.
gro3

right on pasta. unbelieveable that they expect people will be excited about this
Anonymous

lol. They can’t be serious. Why would anyone buy this game just so they can drop support again. I had to laugh at ‘more nba jam hotness’.

http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

Precisely the type of verbiage they shouldn’t be using in this situation. Its almost like rubbing it in, very similar to how they tried to hype Elite 11 which quickly became obnoxious.

Anonymous

lol. They can’t be serious. Why would anyone buy this game just so they can drop support again. I had to laugh at ‘more nba jam hotness’.
Sean

Those greedy, lying S O B’s….they have some nerve pushing this crap after what they did to NBA Jam…their arrogance has no limits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Corey-Ragland/13752595 Corey Ragland

So is this the same game they released in stores but with more features?

Stvsolano54

No its the game they actually made originally but decided to jew the consumer n released a beta version of the game….

http://www.facebook.com/people/Corey-Ragland/13752595 Corey Ragland

This makes it look like they released NBA Jam on disc solely in an attempt to recoup some of the losses from NBA Elite.

http://twitter.com/philsites Phil Sites

What’s funny is this would be just fine if EA supported NBA Jam. This is essentially the “Tournament Edition” release, but EA can’t get away with things like Acclaim could back in the day. There wasn’t such a thing a post-release support in those days and people took to a updated Jam game like wildfire. I’m not sure the same will be true this time with EA’s mismanagement.
MoneyMayweather

come on stop holding me by my balls EA. I wanna dunk with Bucks mascot.
Anonymous

Once again glad I jumped ship on EA after the shit they pulled with NCAA Basketball 10, still up to their old tricks

r00tabaga

H’bout dem Reds kid?!?

Anonymous

4-0 first time in 21 years
last world series 21 years

Early, but better than 0-4 lol Red Sox
Anonymous

4-0 first time in 21 years
last world series 21 years

Early, but better than 0-4 lol Red Sox
Anonymous

4-0 first time in 21 years
last world series 21 years

Early, but better than 0-4 lol Red Sox

Hungryandrew

What a fucking joke. I will not buy this, to make the first EA NBA Jam game on disc and charge 60 dollars, was a disgrace. All of these faetures should of been in the first EA NBA Jam.
Bigpapiandchipper

Wow, as an owner of NBA Jam for PS3, this makes me wanna throw up.

Lack of tag team and roster updates pissed me off, and before I thought it was just because they were lazy. Now it’s clear that they just intentionally held those features back so that they could be presented as “new” features to sell this product. It makes sense, because there are only so many things you can add to NBA Jam, so you have to hold something back to have something “new” next time. But hey, here’s a thought…just do it right the first time!

Basically giving the finger to those like myself that idiotically had the faith in them to drop 50 bucks and expect their best effort. Now they’re putting out a superior product for a fraction of the price…thanks you bastards
Beef Jerky Fanatic

I sold my copy when they announced no updates, I won’t pick this up, the Iphone version is just as good but with updates
Xchris83oz

I am done with EA. Every time I buy one of their games I feel like an idiot soon after doing so. But I deserve it for supporting them. There may still be good people working there but whoever is in charge is completely unethical.
Anonymous

Pasta, gamers have extremely short memories and to be quite honest possess alot more bark than bite. Look at how bad MLB2k8 was and yet the fans still came back to 2k9 and are still coming back to this game even though deep down they already know the game is inferior.

Bottom line is that if you are a JAM fan you will buy this game and if your not you won’t. The fact that EA stopped supporting this last iteration of JAM is immaterial. If the game is better than the last then all will be forgiven. Besides, the last JAM was a bit of damage control to say the least. A last ditch effort to recover from the ELITE debacle. Now with proper planning and clear sailing (no elite to worry about) they will come correct with this game. They have to. It is all they have for this year.
Ives2Nice

Pasta Could you please tell me if all your jam cards and unlockables carry over from the previous NBA JAM to the NBA JAM FIRE EDITION ?
blazer

Im trading my Nba Jam in for Mortal Kombat 9 at gamestop, An they said the new NBA JAM OFE gonna have updates an extras and ranging from 15$-20$ so i can’t pass that up sorry. But why in the hell they did’nt think about this the first time around (EA you have my support but please don’t do that again)