Tim Tschirner: While the first iteration of 10-man Freestyle in NBA LIVE 2004 was a great addition to the LIVE series and made NBA LIVE the most authentic animating basketball on the market, we've further tuned it this year to eliminate foot sliding while maintaining ultimate responsiveness. There's a lot of new 10-man mo-cap data for creating new multi-player scenarios such as box-outs, V-cuts, backdoor cuts, pass-deny defense, pump-fake-and-go, successful and failed spin moves, 'go' moves and dribble bumps. There are also new scenarios for double-teams, battles in the post, screens and mid-air collisions.
We have also enhanced the post-whistle animations to reflect player emotions and added some signature shooting styles. There's a ton of them in the 3 Point Shootout and some are also present in regular games. Unfortunately we couldn't add as many as we would've like because there simply isn't enough RAM available.
