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03 December 2010
Kotaku.com has a nice interview with EA's John Riccitiello in which he explains why it was his decision to cancel NBA Elite 11. Take a look at the interview, it's really interesting.
Riccitiello started his tale by talking about the creative team behind the NBA series, a team ready to transform EA’s long-standing NBA Live series into 2010′s NBA Elite 11.
“A year and a half ago the [development] team in Canada came forward and they said, ‘Look, the way we’re going to take 2K on is that we’re going to fundamentally innovate. And we’re going to essentially give you dual-analog controls that give you an enormous amount of fidelity over the way you play the game.’ You can literally take the ball from left to right, left to right, drive to the basket, switch the ball to your left hand and do a left-handed dunk. And they showed me that gameplay and put the controller in my hand, and I said, ‘This is about as much fun as I’ve ever had playing any sports game. “They said, ‘We’re going to do this for next year.’ But it was a complete rewrite of the technology. It was an ambitious plan.
