With each new hit, and EA, as you know, is a hit, the developers prove to the whole world that they can do everything. For the past eleven years in a row, the combination of NBA Live has promised us a good basketball simulator. Each new EA Sports creation annually removes from our HDD all basketball-like games that have accumulated over one or two years. And with the release of each new NBA Live, we have no doubt that another one will be released next year. So, here we have another NBA Live.

After being notified that all copyrights belong to the aforementioned company, and that every board in the parquet of the basketball court has a license from its owner, an impact video smeared with excellent music, but of poor quality, hits us right in the eyes (and spoils the whole mood). Classic clip-on photography does not allow us to immediately understand what kind of nebula has opened up in front of us. But after watching the video again, everything becomes clear. I don't know what it was made on, it looks like a game engine in 640x480 resolution, filtered through a weak anti-alias (anti-alias, anti-aliasing). The "plasticine" but beautiful opening video of Far Cry is remembered with love.

After making sure that the menu has been redrawn again, we launch the fastest game. The start of the match invites everyone who was hoping for a new style of play to put their hopes back in the "long box" and put a tag on it: "open in a year." Since everything remains the same. All the same sprite fans with bad texture and animation in three frames. And all the same, highly polygonal, well-designed and beautifully animated basketball players are running around the court. But there are flaws here too. The faces are made of stone (which does not match the emotional movements of the body in any way), expressing no emotions; the fingers on the hands are always in the same position. Although no, in the "NBA All-Star" "Basket Shooting Competition" mode (see below), when the stars begin to draw in front of the crowd, after a particularly beautiful throw, their brushes imperceptibly move to the position of the extended index finger. What for? How is it: to show your biceps, for example.

The list of modes has been slightly expanded. Following the fashion that they themselves created, the creators of EA Sports have added the "Dynasty" mode to NBA Live 06. The standard mode is in the best traditions of EA Sports. First, we choose a real-life NBA team, recruit players ourselves, hire staff, and move on to the heights of glory. The PDA helps us to perform all the above actions. A PDA is an ordinary pager that EA has been using in its games since the days of NFSU2. After creating our own team, we will be disappointed once again. Since the main part of "Dynasty" is the most common "Season": a very long schedule of games, monitoring the team's rating, training certain qualities of players (the manager element) and endless games.

But, it's the games that keep us at the monitor, greedily eating up precious time. The visualization of the match is excellent as always. Every movement of the basketball players is picturesquely, beautifully and smoothly animated to such an extent that if it were not for the "axial" collisions (when the basketball player is no longer moving, but still working with his feet), the feeling of reality of what is happening would not leave us throughout the match. The chiaroscuro is a bit poor, all the shadows and almost all the light are nothing but sprites. But the reflections are great, the parquet is also highly detailed, the physics are beautiful and absolutely real, but until you get to the "NBA All-Star" "Basket Shooting Competition" mode.

This game mode is a kind of "aerial acrobatics with a ball." I'll explain for those who didn't play in NBA Live 2005. The NBA star enters the "arena" no more, no less, stands behind the three-point line, throws the ball into the shield, runs up, makes a wheel, jumps, catches the ball bouncing off the shield, "enters" bullet-time, passes the ball in flight under one foot, under the other, beautifully bending, "exits" from bullet-time, he drives the ball into the ring to the thunderous applause of the amazed audience, there is no bullet-time effect, it's just a close–up of a basketball player who moves in slow motion. Naturally, every trick performed by a celebrity is evaluated on a ten-point scale by no less famous judges. Tricks that pull 3-5 points in reality can be performed by almost anyone who periodically plays basketball, it's been verified that I performed a couple myself, only NBA professionals will pull 7-8 points. But if, after your trick, all the judges raised signs with the numbers "10" (for example, the trick described above), you should know that no one living on earth will be able to repeat it, since: "g is a constant value."

But in order to disrupt the local ovation, it is not a sin to violate several laws of physics. As soon as the sprite audience does not react to what is happening: frenzied prolonged screams after a beautiful throw or a disappointed "Uh-oh!" of hundreds of voices are in the order of things here. The cocktail of excellent sound is perfectly complemented by the emotional chatter of the two commentators; the creak of sneakers and the super sound of hitting the ring on the springs, constantly drowned out by the same audience.

Concluding the review, we agree: EA Sports did not deceive fans of the series by promising contact basketball. The combination "pass-pass-pass-from above" no longer works even on a light level of difficulty, you have to look for a gap in the defense or make it yourself. With each new part of NBA Live, the role of the gamer in the game becomes more significant. Now he needs not only to actively attack the opponent's ring, but also to defend his own on his own. And what else do we actually need? Beautiful graphics, high–quality sound, real physics and polished gameplay - these are the qualities that make NBA Live 06 the best basketball simulator to date. That's right, fellow basketball fans After you have clicked the link and gone to the Melbet homepage, look in the top right-hand corner. Here you will find a yellow button which says 'registration' on it. Click on that and it will open out the new customer form that you have to fill in to gain an account with Melbet. Best melbet promo code today which helps new users to claim a 150% bonus up to ₹52,000 when they sign up on the platform. The Metbet welcome bonus is ₹40,000 but you can claim ₹52,000.