If you read the story last week on EA's NBA Live 2006 for Xbox 360, you know all about how the company started with a fresh slate and rebuilt the graphics, animations, and interface from the ground up to make one of the prettiest first generation Xbox 360 games. You also know that EA promised a secret about the loading area/lobby screen where you can shoot around as soon as you turn the power on. Well, now we've seen it and we can reveal that the secret is...super short players!

As you can see in the picture below, EA went the opposite of the old NBA Jam route of increasing player head sizes and just shrunk down everybody as an unlockable feature. We got to test this out in action, and it's pretty hilarious -- players jump four times their height to dunk, can move around the floor with ease due to all the open space, and hold the ball like a baby holds a giant pumpkin (since the ball is still full sized).

According to EA's Tim Tschirner, this feature started out as a gameplay bug where some characters would show up small on the screen, but the developers had so much fun with it they decided to include it as a feature in the game.

Unlocking the feature is fairly simple. When in the Create Player mode, you have to name you character "lil'" and he will appear small in the lobby. If you play a pick up game against a full sized player in the lobby, then for every point you score, the full sized player will shrink a bit. If you do well enough that he becomes smaller than you, and then start up a game, all the players in that real game will be tiny (though notably, the coaches and arenas will not.