Get ready to dunk like Brittney Griner and dish like Sue Bird - WNBA players are coming to 'NBA Live 18'
“With EA’s expertise and ingenuity, the game will provide a terrific platform to showcase the players and the league, enabling fans to experience the WNBA in a new, exciting way.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
“We are delighted to collaborate and make history with EA as NBA LIVE 18 becomes the first video game to feature the WNBA’s full roster of teams and players,” said WNBA president Lisa Borders.
There isn’t a franchise option yet to create players. Wilson, a senior, will have to wait a year until she makes a WNBA roster. “I definitely will be playing video games now. “That’s great, that’s something that’s very positive,” she said at USA Basketball Under-23 training camp in Colorado Springs, Colorado. But she was glad to hear that WNBA players are included, and she may someday be featured the video game. South Carolina star A’ja Wilson admits she isn’t really into video games. “They should have given video gamers the option.” “It should have happened a while ago,” Stewart said. FIFA2016 highlighted 12 women’s soccer national teams, including the U.S., to the game in 2015.
It’s not the first time EA Sports has added females to its games. McBride said it will be fun to play as other teams in the league since “a true gamer can take anyone to the title.” “We had so many battles when we were younger playing against each other and now we can take it to a whole new level.” “My brother called me so excited this morning saying ‘you’re in a video game!’” McBride said. She was pumped to be featured in a game now. She considers herself a gamer, having played NBA Live and Madden Football against her brothers and cousins since she was young. San Antonio guard Kayla McBride also hopes her rating is high. “My rating is going to be important, I’m curious to see what it will be,” she said. Always a bone of contention in other sports games, Stewart is confident EA Sports will get the rankings right. “It’s the first question I’m going to ask him.” “I’m going to have to talk to him about this,” she said, laughing. Stewart hopes that her younger brother, who plays video games a lot, will pick her when he plays the game. There’s a WNBA play mode where video gamers can pit two WNBA teams against each other with authentic jerseys, rosters and courts. The game’s creators fine-tuned player ratings and skill moves. Veterans Candace Parker and Tina Charles are featured, along with stars Maya Moore, Brittney Griner and Elena Delle Donne. 1 draft pick Kelsey Plum of the San Antonio Stars and others. The developers held motion capture sessions with No. Head scans of WNBA players were conducted over the past year. You see men’s players all the time, but it’s good for women’s basketball to have us in there.” For me, I played video games when I was younger, whether it was the NCAA basketball game or 2K,” Stewart said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. It’s the first time players on all 12 WNBA teams will be featured. NBA Live 18 is adding women’s basketball players to the popular game this fall. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)īreanna Stewart can now compete against other WNBA players in a video game. The developers held motion capture sessions with WNBA players, including veteran Candace Parker, to be featured in a video game for the first time this fall. 20, 2016, file photo, Los Angeles Sparks' Candace Parker, right, attempts to shoot over Minnesota Lynx's Rebekkah Brunson in the first quarter during Game 5 of the WNBA basketball finals.