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. 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. 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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