First, it's important that experienced NBA gamers use the top two difficulty settings right from the beginning because the lower two are pretty much a joke and intended for novices to familiarize themselves with the game's new control style. But that's where Live 2003's other enhancements kick in because you've got to use some serious basketball sense against your opponent in this game, especially when you're playing against humans. When it comes to gameplay, you'd think that the freestyle controls would give you an extremely unfair advantage against the CPU. And we haven't even told you about how the right analog stick is used on defense to swipe with your left or right hand, crouch down into defensive position and passively stretch your player's hands up to avoid the foul on a shot. The creativity shown by the developer's at EA Canada is reflected in the fact that many moves are intuitive and reflect how you'd move a basketball with your hands in real life. Try all of the quarter circles and half circle moves you remember from Street Fighter in a variety of different situations and then start doing them from south to north instead of east to west. Let's just say you'll still be discovering new moves weeks after you've initially picked up the game. We could spend this entire review going over the moves and situations available to you in Freestyle control, but we won't. You pull that one off by moving the right analog in a semicircle from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock on the left side if the ball is in his left hand, on the right side if it's in his right. And neither one of those is like the spin move where the ball stays in the same hand but the player himself whirls around in a circle like one of those moves from the Nike Freestyle commercials. That spin move causes him to plant, set up the defender and whirl all the way around 360 degrees so that he's traveling in the same direction when he comes out of it. Quickly tapping up on the right analog stick when your player is moving allows him to pull off a quick spin but not the same spin move you get when you holding the stick as opposed to tapping it. Moving with the ball, in the triple threat position or with his back to the basket are the three main situations your player can find himself in, but then again you can quickly go from one to the other and string them together combo style. Furthermore, you have different moves available depending on the situation. And when we say dozens of moves, we're talking about four versions of the crossover, three kinds of spin moves and all kinds of hesitation dribbles that can be performed with either hand. Freestyle control is revolutionary in that it allows the player with the ball to pull off a variety of offensive moves in the blink of an eye and that you determine the direction and variation of the move. But the satisfaction comes from knowing that even when you're throwing down impossible reverse alley oops from behind the backboard you're still within the rules and conventions of the actual NBA. The arcade fun comes from the exaggerated speed of the game and dozens of new moves you can pull of with players using the right analog stick.
Live 2003's attention to NBA details, rules, and style of play however is completely legitimate, while still giving players the freedom to repeatedly create exciting highlight-worthy plays that would keep the crowds cheering and coaches stressed out. Nine times out of ten, gamers are treated to schizophrenic sports titles that try and force-feed us over-the-top antics into an obvious basketball sim with rules and dimensions that piss off fans from both genres. Gameplay The most interesting aspect of NBA Live 2003 is that it somehow brings arcade and simulation elements together to coexist peacefully in one game.
Improved in just about every category, and using an all-new right stick manipulation that will never let you go back, Live 2003 is very much the revolution that the marketing types have been yammering about. Succeeding because the developers finally found the proper balance between the exciting and entertaining parts of NBA basketball while retaining all of the rules and realism you'd expect from an all out NBA simulation, NBA Live 2003 is one of the biggest turnarounds we've ever seen.
NBA LIVE 2003 PC DESCARGAR SERIES
With Sega's popular 2K series making a specifically-designed leap to all three next generation consoles this season, the reasons were even greater as to why NBA Live 2003 had to do something drastic if it wanted to stay in the hunt.Īnd it did.
NBA LIVE 2003 PC DESCARGAR PROFESSIONAL
Choppy, devoid of any basketball artificial intelligence and focused on the flashy, more superficial elements of professional basketball, it was a title screaming for improvement. The last time we checked in on 2002 edition of EA Sports' NBA Live franchise, it was a mess.
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