NBA showdown: NBA Live 10 and NBA 2K10 in stores
2K Sports’ NBA 2K10 is available as a regular vanilla release and a limited-edition NBA 2K10: Anniversary Edition that comes packaged in a specially designed 2K Sports locker configured for game storage, with exclusive items featuring 2009 NBA Finals MVP and cover athlete for NBA 2K10, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. This season, NBA 2K10 promises realistic, stylistic, NBA branded gameplay with new features like a revamped career mode, training mode, franchise mode, and support for social features. Developed by 2K Sports’ Visual Concepts studio, NBA 2K10 is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and is available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and PSP. A windows version ships Oct. 12 and a Wii version will be released Oct. 19.
EA Sports’ entry, NBA LIVE 10 is available PS3, PSP and Xbox 360. Developed by EA Canada, NBA LIVE 10 promises a higher level of user control giving them command of dribbling, passing, shooting and driving the lane.
In addition to gameplay, visuals and in-game presentation have also received an overhaul in NBA LIVE 10. NBA LIVE 10 also introduces a premium service called Dynamic Season to this year’s seminal release. Dynamic Season allows users to play along with the regular season as it happens. Dynamic Season will update your game daily with the real results, injuries, statistics, trades and tendencies that happen in the NBA. As users play each game, their results are merged with the real NBA season, giving players the opportunity to alter reality and make their own 2010 NBA Finals.
Both games are available at retail this week.
