NBA 2K10 开发人员日志：NBA Today （部分翻译）

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NBA 2K10里除了传说中的“一球成名”模式外，另一最令人期待的便是NBA Today，这个新增系统革命性地将大量网络元素注入篮球游戏中，下面是NBA 2K10一位游戏开发人员对NBA today的介绍。只把部分内容粗略的翻译了下。
NBA Today
By: Asif Chaudhri | Monday August 17 2009

Hi 2K Sports Fans! I am Asif Chaudhri and I work on all things presentation for NBA 2K10. Let me introduce you to something amazing:

The NBA, the REAL NBA, is in your game and it’s updated every day…

NBA Today is a revolutionary way to experience the NBA 2K game play you love. In the “old days” you’d fire up your basketball game and wind up on a team select screen…try to figure out what matchup you wanted to play and then get going. When it came to commentary, presentation and overlays your game was happening in a vacuum. There was nothing “real” about it. It was a fantasy matchup that had no real-world context and no impact. There was a limited list of subjects the commentators could discuss. They could talk about what was happening in that particular game and they could talk about what happened last season. That was pretty much it.



In NBA 2K10 that’s all changed. NBA Today takes the sport you love, NBA basketball, and the game you love, NBA 2K, and finally puts them in the same “world”. When you start 2K10, your Internet-connected console will reach out and grab all the latest information about what’s happening in the league. After that, you won’t land on the team select screen: instead you’ll go directly to the NBA Today screen which lists the REAL NBA matchups that are actually being played TODAY. Additionally you will see a breakdown of scores from last night’s games, as well as view which players in tonight’s matchups are leading their teams in the various stat categories. Furthermore, while the game is loading you’ll get a quick update on how both teams did in their last games and the stats their key players put up. From the NBA Today Menu, you can access box scores for ALL NBA games that have already been played, division and conference standings, league leader stats, the latest transactions, follow any trades that are happening around the league, and check out an All-Star voting watch menu.
NBA Today将你喜爱的运动和游戏——NBA&NBA 2K10 ，融合在了一个世界里！当你启动2K10时，网络连接功能会抓取最新的来自真实联盟所发生的资讯。你不再是像以前那样从球队选择界面开始游戏，而是直接从NBA Today—一个显示着NBA当天真实球队对阵信息的界面进入游戏。你会看到昨晚比赛的各项赛后数据以及今晚对阵中哪些球员在哪项数据上领导着自己的球队。当读取进入比赛时，游戏会快速更新一些两队交手记录以及交手时两队关键球员的数据。在NBA Today菜单中，你可以进入任何一场NBA已经打过的比赛。队伍分区和总排名，联盟各项数据的领跑者，最新的交易信息，选明星投票情况都会被显示在NBA Today里。


Pretty cool, huh? But that’s just the start. Now that your game and your league are in sync, the door is thrown open for dynamic commentary and presentation that’s based on what’s really happening in the real NBA (have I said “real” enough times?) Throughout the season, there is no doubt you will be impressed by the intelligent commentating that not only keeps you informed on the ACTUAL latest league happenings but also keeps track of your team info as well. Examples include knowing that you just got home from a 3-game road trip where you won one and lost two, knowing the opposing team’s starting center is out with an injury, knowing your point guard put up 22 points in the road win against the Grizzlies Tuesday night and that he’s averaging 17 ppg this season, knowing this is the first of a four game series between the two teams … get it? The commentators now have the knowledge of what’s happening league-wide and will reference the most up-to-date information possible in their conversations. But it’s not just all talk, a lot of the topics, the commentary team will talk about, have overlays that coincide with their analysis. During the season, they’ll catch you up on who’s leading the league and how teams are ranked in various stat categories, check out a team’s upcoming schedule and even do a promo spot for an upcoming game. If it’s a holiday, as you may have seen in previous screens, that isn’t going to be ignored; the game will present the holiday in overlays and commentary. As the playoffs are approaching you’ll get the east/west conference standings and once the post season starts, you’ll get playoffs and finals screen wipes. The commentary and presentation will constantly be changing throughout the season to coincide with the real league and transition from pre-season to regular season and finally to the postseason.
新的解说系统会提供你真实联盟里发生的事情和你球队的资讯。例如“你的球队刚刚结束了连续3个的客场之旅”，“对方主力中锋因伤缺席”，“你球队里的PG在周二晚上砍下22分，本赛季打到现在平均每场17分”等十分丰富新鲜的内容会出现在解说当中。在赛季进行中，他们会让你了解到目前谁是得分王，各个球队在各项数据上的排名如何，球队未来几场比赛的时间表，以及甚至会介绍下场比赛的看点。这种实时的解说会从季前赛到总决赛贯穿整个NBA赛季.



For the few days during the season where there are no NBA games taking place (or anytime you feel like playing your team) you can simply use Quick Game to create your own fantasy matchup. All the NBA Today commentary/presentation will still be valid looking back and forward in time. And yes, all the NBA Today commentary/presentation will also occur in your Association (but it will be your Association data that drives the commentary, not the real NBA). A quick note: Often during an NBA game, commentators let the visual demonstration of the game lead itself if they are having a conversation. That changes, however, if there is a huge highlight play. If a thunderous dunk rains down, you’ll get the commentators attention. The same can be said during our game.
如果你的队伍刚好几天没有比赛，你可以在QUICK GAME里创建自己的虚拟对决。所有的NBA Today里的解说或介绍也都会在王朝模式中有效（当然消息来源是你的王朝而不是真实的NBA了）。


We’re really excited to see what you guys think about this new feature. Drop me a line in the comments and tell me what you think!

Asif Chaudhri
Presentation Producer