It will most likely be better. Let's not forget when talking about Live '03 that it's still a very good game. If you hadn't played any Live's pervious to this and didn't come here and see mine and everyone elses bitching (yes we're all bitching) about flaws then you'd think it was pretty damn good. I thought it was alright until I cam here, then I started realizing all the flaws and started to hate it.
Now, about 2004, I've seen the videos and it looks really good. I like how there's a "freestyle package" like the dunk one for each player. That way I can use freestyle with my center and not just drop the ball.

I also really like having multiple refs (There's three!) and the new free-throw thing. And I hope that was a hard (all-star *crosses fingers*) difficulty because I thought the free-throw lines (I wonder what to call that, I can't say the T-Bar ball, it's the line thing, w/e) were going at a good speed for Juanny. I like how you stay "square to the basket" as the guy said. Also, about Cleveland's court, isn't there supposed to be the secondary logo to the side of the key, the one that's the C with the ball and the sword. Right now they have the full logo and it doesn't look right.