Enjoy a simplified user experience that both veterans and rookies will appreciate, and stay connected to the community with Locker Codes, Leaderboards, Developer Tips, Team of the Week, and more.įor the first time, all 12 WNBA teams and over 140 players are in the game and ready to run in Play Now and Season modes. Master MyTEAM with daily goals, card-leveling, a reimagined Triple Threat, limited-time events, and even more prizes. And with Neighorbood Rep, everyone in the Park will know who’s legit and who needs a seat on the bench. Access even more 2K Compete Events, unlock animations with the new Show-off Stick, and earn more exclusive gear than ever before. A redesigned progression system gives you unprecedented freedom to build and level up the perfect MyPLAYER.Įxperience a more living, breathing, active Neighborhood. Take your skills to the next level with the most realistic player control ever, featuring an upgraded motion engine with signature styles, advanced shooting controls, a new dribble size-up system, refined off-ball collisions, and a new read & react defensive game.Įxecutive produced by LeBron James & SpringHill Entertainment, this year’s M圜AREER experience features topical storylines, true-to-life basketball characters, and a star-studded cast. After that time, all game functions requiring online servers will no longer function. Demo version of NBA Live 2003, a(n) sports game, for PCs and laptops with Windows systems. NBA Live 2003 may well be the best basketball game on the PC, but that's the equivalent of being the best-looking girl in Wales.NOTE: All multiplayer servers for NBA 2K20 will be shutdown as of. For a more in-depth simulation, a single player can start a Season with any. And even if you do want to own a basketball game, seeking out a budget version of a previous incarnation would be a shrewder move, as the data updates will only be of concern to aficionados of the sport. Ad blurbs and other promotional material for NBA Live 2003 (PlayStation). Ulitimately, the game isn't too bad in short bursts, and nothing more. Anyway, it's clearly more suited to the big screen, and the game shows its console roots in a sloppy fashion, with on-screen instructions urging you to do something or other with the second analogue stick. Correct, but that still doesn't justify spending $30 to recreate it on a monitor. It Doesn't Make It Okīut hey, you bleat, that's what the sport of basketball is like, a quickfire high-scoring fastmoving game. NOTE: This would override any roster or game that you already have saved. For the man with the ball, a swift burst of turbo is usually enough to secure yourself a reasonable vantage point from which to shoot, an activity that requires little or no skill other than the ability to press a button. C:UsersYourWindowsUsernameMy DocumentsNBA Live 08saves002 (Windows Vista, 7, 8). The crux of the problem is that it's nigh on impossible to defend, with your armoury restricted to little more than a half-hearted lunge or the occasional leap. No matter how realistic the stadia are, how accurate the players' faces look, how seamless - and occasionally amusing - the commentary is, no amount of gloss can justify a game that basically involves a tedious cycle of running up to a basket, sticking the ball in it, then watching your opponent do the same until you're told to stop. If the true test of a sports game is its two-player mode, then NBA fails. All of those things are true of NBA Live 2003, but none of them are enough to sustain anything more than a few hours of interest. At 9to5’s family of sites, we make great efforts to be a top influencer in the tech community by consistently breaking exclusive news and being the first to report information our readers care. This year we're not going to get suckered into fawning over it just because it looks good, has plenty of options and delivers a game somewhere in the region of playable. No sooner is the game reviewed than the disc is tossed aside like so much used pornography. But do any of us ever play it? Do we bollocks.
We can safely say that it's a slam-dunking, hoop-busting extravaganza.
Our enthusiasm has been mainly fuelled by the realisation that it offers a comprehensive representation of a game that we are largely unfamiliar with, replete with all the razzamatazz associated with high-profile American sports. We've traditionally been uncommonly generous to EA's annual basketball outing, regularly saddling it with all manner of plaudits.