by bchogan on Thu Jul 15, 2004 6:31 pm
What? No skills competition? No crappy 2-ball or whatever they use the WNBA players in? All-Star Weekend indeed!!
Seriously though (I was joking, in case that didn't come across), it sounds like we'll finally get a dunk contest that allows for creativity. I have ESPN College Hoops, which has a dunk competition that ign compaired to Dance-Dance Revolution, and it wasn't much fun. Now I'll finally get to recreate Michael Finley's cartwheel dunk! Yay!
One other thing I noticed in the preview pics: it looks like the shorts are animated. Check out the pic with LeBron, Mo Pete and (Ha!) Boozer. LeBron's shorts are flaired out, which has to be animated, since the shorts don't look like that in other pics. Maybe the jerseys move too, though I can't tell from the pics. It's funny, though. I used morphmesh & oedit to change all the Live 2004 player models (i.e. thinner midsections, jerseys that hang out a bit, thinner shorts, smaller feet), and the changes I made look similar to the new 2005 models .