I like the concept for the control system for elite, but its still not polished.
I guess, and of course controls are a very personal preference so take this with a grain of salt, but from playing it for about an hour:
hate that the passing is controlled by pointing the left analog where you want to pass it. Since this also controls your movement, it requires you to sometimes point the stick the exact opposite way your trying to drive.
If you do the timing perfect, it works. but more often than not, since im normally also doing a ball move with the RS, it results in the player having to come to a stop/ run in an unnatrual direction.
It's also not responsive at all, and is absolutely horrible at making the right decision on who to pass to when more than one teammate is in the same "quadrant" such as, for one example, when someones coming off a down screen.
at least 50% of the time, the pass will go right at the pick instead of the player curling, resulting in an easy defelction by the man on the screen due to the pick man being stuck in the pick animation.
The fact that you have to do the fireball motion from street fighter to do a layup is counter intuitive, and absolutely destroys layups on the baseline. it works fine when your driving straight down the lane, It's completely nonsensical to have to move the RS out of bounds/ back towards your own basket and then yank it in a quarter circle to forwards to do a simple layup from a foot away from the basket driving off the baseline.
When you through in the fact that the defense plays like it's on skates and you have to use the RS for both jumping/shootblocking AND stealing, and the controls, at least on default, don't take positioning into account, you are endlessly jumping when you ment to steal and vice versa.
I appreciate there effort, and understand that the 1-1 motion system works in the lead dev's previous game NHL 2010, but that's because you have a freaking stick in hockey, and it has limited movements.
doing street fighter moves to hit simple shots/ play defense is not fun. I love this control system in NHL, but for a basketball game, its not useful. to me at least.
