In the battle for basketball video game supremacy over the last decade, NBA 2K has obliterated the NBA Live franchise about as badly as Facebook did to MySpace. And if the sneak preview of their 2016 installment is any indication, NBA Live really isn’t doing themselves any favors towards swinging the scales back their way.
This week saw the release of the demo for NBA Live 16, and we can only assume that the Live developers subscribe to the “Bad publicity is better than no publicity” school of thought. The demo caused an uproar on social media for a series of appalling player avatars that can only be described as “Brady-esque.