You will build your squads for play and get better players over time so you can create the ultimate matchups to use.
You get to see other players’ customizations and mix and match the best lineup to play another team. Similar to a boss battle, you will play against a squad that if you beat the squad, you unlock that specific player. Playing through The Rise allows for a variation of 3-on-3 or 5-on-5 matchups. Playing a 3-on-3 or 5-on-5 matchup online is a fun and unique experience. You go through a gauntlet of online games to defend your court as you unlock more attire to add to your court. This is another way to earn Hype and level up your player. Players also have the ability to create custom courts this year for Court Battles. These courts are vibrantly replicated and capture a solid atmosphere for street ball. The team also brought on some generic cut scenes from ESPN and YouTube personalities to create hype for your player, but this isn’t dynamic at all.ĮA Tiburon has also introduced legendary street courts from the likes of the Philippines and Brazil where legendary street ball matches have taken place. This is a nice touch to add and helps compliment the experience. The Rise features a narrative that prompt for two responses that are geared towards building your character and give varying results based on the choices you make. Like last year, you aim to either work towards The League or The Streets. The Rise is the tour mode that is the main focus on building your player in The One. Leveling your player will unlock new abilities, specific dribbling and shooting styles and tons of wardrobe attire that help make diverse players across the world. Players can also create female characters as the matchups include mixed genders. Players can have their character work their way towards being the next Vince Carter or Shaq as they build towards a specific style. The team introduced the Icon System this year as it gives your player a direction for the type of player they want to be. With The One, players have multiple ways of upgrading and playing with their character that is always fresh and never seems like grinding. With NBA Live 19, those modes have taken a back seat, but what is being focused on is fantastic. Sports gaming seems to be leaning more towards individual career modes, which tends to leave behind the gaming modes that fans have been accustomed to over the past twenty years. NBA Live 19 continues to focus on this mode in a variety of entertaining ways. The biggest surprise was the introduction of the career mode, The One, as players could build and customize their player as they rise to the top of either The League or The Streets. EA Tiburon surprised a lot of people with NBA Live 18 and is hoping to build upon that with NBA Live 19.