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EA has announced that NBA Elite will be the new moniker of its long running EA Sports NBA video game franchise.
NBA Elite 11 hopes to revolutionise the way basketball simulation games are played, with an all-new technology base, a new control scheme and a real-time physics system. The game is currently in development for PS3 and Xbox 360.
“We plan to profoundly evolve the interactive basketball experience in a way that the category has not seen for a decade,” said Peter Moore, President, EA Sports. “In NBA Elite 11, we’ll introduce a gameplay experience that gives fans the control on the court that they have been begging for in a basketball game for years.”
A new ‘Hands-On Control’ scheme aims to offer one-to-one responsiveness of a player’s movement and actions on the court, as opposed to traditional predetermined animations that require users to wait while a scenario played out before making the next move. Hands-on Control applies to everything within a player’s offensive and defensive arsenal, including: dribble moves, dunks, drives to the basket, fadeaways, mid-air adjustments, blocks, steals and more.
A new real-time physics system also allows each player on the court to move independently of one another. 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 determined shooting in past games.
NBA Elite 11 will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in October.
