NBA ELITE 11 announced by EA

EA announced that NBA Elite 11 is in development and will be available by October 2010. Using an  all-new technology base, a new control scheme and a real-time physics system, the game aims to set the bar high and will revolutionize the way basketball games are played.

The game developed by EA Canada introduces several significant gameplay changes that center around user control. The new ‘Hands-On Control’ scheme allows for one-to-one responsiveness of a player’s movement and actions on the court, as opposed to traditional predetermined animations that required users to wait while a scenario played out before making the next move.

The new real-time physics system in NBA ELITE 11 allows each player on the court to move independently of one another, removing the two-man interactions that have long taken the user control out of basketball simulation videogames. In addition, a new skill-based shooting system requires accurate user input, based on a player’s position on the court, versus the randomly generated dice rolls that have driven shooting in basketball videogames in the past.

“We plan to profoundly evolve the interactive basketball experience in a way that the category has not seen for a decade,” says Peter Moore, President, EA SPORTS. “In NBA ELITE 11, we’ll introduce a gameplay experience that gives fans the control on the court that they have been begging for in a basketball game for years.”

NBA ELITE 11 will be available for PS3 and Xbox 360 only and will be priced at MSRP $59.99 and will be heading for an worldwide retail release on OCT 2010.