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Basketball - a fantastic, but basic sport. Aim of the game is to constantly bounce the ball until ready to pass in the attempt to score a basket. Simple! However, not everyone finds it so easy, but in computer games this is a totally different case.
Since gaming really boomed and got a say in the media what popular basketball titles have we received that haven't been made by EA? NBA Hoopz and NBA 2 Night, and these are really the only basketball games that have made an impact for the genre. Where's everyone else? EA from 1996 onwards have produced NBA live titles, just like Fifa titles which have also continued, but why isn't there any other publisher contributing to the sport. We see a lot of football titles willingly been made without hesitation, but quite noticeably this isn't the case with basketball.
What's wrong with basketball games? Well, first of all everything seems too repetitive from what we've seen of
current AND recent basketball titles. You pass, shoot, score then opponents have a try at basket. Basketball is realistically played like this in real life, but we see a lot more excitement and enthusiasm from the tv not the games.
Basketball games can be improved in a lot of ways if more notice would be payed towards what we watch on tv. You look at character movements on tv and you can see how fluent they are, but in the games players seem to have jurky movements when they brush off another player. Another thing is the atmosphere. Everyone knows America is the home of basketball so we feel the exciting atmosphere from the crowd. Okay, basketball games do portray a bit of enthusiasm from the crowd, but only when you score a basket. Then from there onwards the highly anticipating atmosphere vanishes. Totally wrong! The game should continue the high atmosphere until maybe a silly mistake is made by a player, causing a sigh from the supporting crowd. This helps the player become more interested into the game instead of drifting off somewhere away from the screen, which I have seen a lot of due to rubbish Basketball games.
What we want to see is more realism with extra features just to make the game more exciting to play. So far EA's titles seemed to improve year after year, but only by minor touches nothing extraordinary. Still, much respect to them as they create basketball games unlike other naive developers.
Where's Konami? They're the daddy of football games so why don't they have a crack at a basketball title? Are they too cautious of the outcome, I hope not. We've seen many sports titles by Konami and most of them seem to give a true feel to the sport when playing. A Basketball game maybe, ESPN Basketball, would really boost their reputation now and then more people would notice their greater efforts than that of EA's. Still, EA have made great PS2 titles especially like NBA Street and SSX, but it's their Fifa games that seems to let them down. On the other hand most of Konami's developments have been different even though they may not be to their full potential.
All you NBA fans, PC and PS2 owners out there should prepare for NBA Live 2002 (another EA instalment) because from what I've seen of it, EA have finally made something different for the better! At last we can see celebrations and more effective replays when great pointers have been executed. The graphics look crispier than ever and character movements are unbelievably realistic. Players are equipped with many new skills and fakes making for a worthy basketball game, finally!
What I'm sure most basketball and gaming fans would really like to see for the genre would be a Konami instalment of the genre. After all most of their developments have not really disappointed causing us to return the game. Right now basketball games need another willing creator and to me Konami looks to be the one.
Basketball rocks the telly now we want it to rock our sweaty little machines. I sincerely hope GameCube and Xbox make a basketball title because realism in basketball really needs a make-over, and from the WWF preview I've seen for the Xbox there's no stopping them making a basketball game. After all Xbox seems to be America-crazy!
Tenks fur reeding :)
Since gaming really boomed and got a say in the media what popular basketball titles have we received that haven't been made by EA? NBA Hoopz and NBA 2 Night, and these are really the only basketball games that have made an impact for the genre. Where's everyone else? EA from 1996 onwards have produced NBA live titles, just like Fifa titles which have also continued, but why isn't there any other publisher contributing to the sport. We see a lot of football titles willingly been made without hesitation, but quite noticeably this isn't the case with basketball.
What's wrong with basketball games? Well, first of all everything seems too repetitive from what we've seen of
current AND recent basketball titles. You pass, shoot, score then opponents have a try at basket. Basketball is realistically played like this in real life, but we see a lot more excitement and enthusiasm from the tv not the games.
Basketball games can be improved in a lot of ways if more notice would be payed towards what we watch on tv. You look at character movements on tv and you can see how fluent they are, but in the games players seem to have jurky movements when they brush off another player. Another thing is the atmosphere. Everyone knows America is the home of basketball so we feel the exciting atmosphere from the crowd. Okay, basketball games do portray a bit of enthusiasm from the crowd, but only when you score a basket. Then from there onwards the highly anticipating atmosphere vanishes. Totally wrong! The game should continue the high atmosphere until maybe a silly mistake is made by a player, causing a sigh from the supporting crowd. This helps the player become more interested into the game instead of drifting off somewhere away from the screen, which I have seen a lot of due to rubbish Basketball games.
What we want to see is more realism with extra features just to make the game more exciting to play. So far EA's titles seemed to improve year after year, but only by minor touches nothing extraordinary. Still, much respect to them as they create basketball games unlike other naive developers.
Where's Konami? They're the daddy of football games so why don't they have a crack at a basketball title? Are they too cautious of the outcome, I hope not. We've seen many sports titles by Konami and most of them seem to give a true feel to the sport when playing. A Basketball game maybe, ESPN Basketball, would really boost their reputation now and then more people would notice their greater efforts than that of EA's. Still, EA have made great PS2 titles especially like NBA Street and SSX, but it's their Fifa games that seems to let them down. On the other hand most of Konami's developments have been different even though they may not be to their full potential.
All you NBA fans, PC and PS2 owners out there should prepare for NBA Live 2002 (another EA instalment) because from what I've seen of it, EA have finally made something different for the better! At last we can see celebrations and more effective replays when great pointers have been executed. The graphics look crispier than ever and character movements are unbelievably realistic. Players are equipped with many new skills and fakes making for a worthy basketball game, finally!
What I'm sure most basketball and gaming fans would really like to see for the genre would be a Konami instalment of the genre. After all most of their developments have not really disappointed causing us to return the game. Right now basketball games need another willing creator and to me Konami looks to be the one.
Basketball rocks the telly now we want it to rock our sweaty little machines. I sincerely hope GameCube and Xbox make a basketball title because realism in basketball really needs a make-over, and from the WWF preview I've seen for the Xbox there's no stopping them making a basketball game. After all Xbox seems to be America-crazy!
Tenks fur reeding :)
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Sports games or "sims" even are intended for you to do things that you can't do in real life. If you want to fly through the air like Micheal "Air" Jordan or wrap a steel chair over someone's head, you can do that - that's the main purpose really. However, they're also intended for sports fans, who enjoy the sport, but want more out of their sport, in a game. Believe it or not, deal with it or dismiss it as pure rumour, but that is the truth. Well, that's the way I see it. If you don't like sports games, don't play them.
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i'd much rather be playing basketball for real then on a videogame because a videogame cannot reproduce the high paced tempo of the game and all of the bustling that goes on in the D. you manage to get out of a match without a bruise on you you've either been sitting on the bench all the game or been nowhere near the action for the whole game or that's just the way people in wolverhampton play the game we an aggresive lot you know. just look at kevin muscat as an example hehe
NBA Jam series: brought basketball games from the dark ages of the bulls vs lakers, lakers vs celtics etc series into a world of fast, spectacular play with comedy hidden characters.
Ah, they get so many more nba games in america though. I see most of them in my imported magazine, usually ps2. Lots come with novel little twists now, like 3 on 3 with selected stars from a range of teams, or 'nba street' on outdoor courts (i think it includes rucker park, and i've not heard of any others by name!).
Nobody seems to be taking the game forward in it's purest form though, at least not in steps bigger than the small improvements and updated rosters of the nba live or nba 2k serieses.
Still, where can they go? Atmosphere seems to me to be the only area where big improvements can be made (and that's only because reload mentioned it ; ) ).
But is that in itself a big improvement?
The ability to pull off playground moves as seen by the likes of jason milliams, the and 1 mix tape players, or some of vince's stuff. Now THAT i would pay for!
Ah, they get so many more nba games in america though. I see most of them in my imported magazine, usually ps2. Lots come with novel little twists now, like 3 on 3 with selected stars from a range of teams, or 'nba street' on outdoor courts (i think it includes rucker park, and i've not heard of any others by name!).
Nobody seems to be taking the game forward in it's purest form though, at least not in steps bigger than the small improvements and updated rosters of the nba live or nba 2k serieses.
Still, where can they go? Atmosphere seems to me to be the only area where big improvements can be made (and that's only because reload mentioned it ; ) ).
But is that in itself a big improvement?
The ability to pull off playground moves as seen by the likes of jason milliams, the and 1 mix tape players, or some of vince's stuff. Now THAT i would pay for!
Basketball - a fantastic, but basic sport. Aim of the game is to constantly bounce the ball until ready to pass in the attempt to score a basket. Simple! However, not everyone finds it so easy, but in computer games this is a totally different case.
Since gaming really boomed and got a say in the media what popular basketball titles have we received that haven't been made by EA? NBA Hoopz and NBA 2 Night, and these are really the only basketball games that have made an impact for the genre. Where's everyone else? EA from 1996 onwards have produced NBA live titles, just like Fifa titles which have also continued, but why isn't there any other publisher contributing to the sport. We see a lot of football titles willingly been made without hesitation, but quite noticeably this isn't the case with basketball.
What's wrong with basketball games? Well, first of all everything seems too repetitive from what we've seen of
current AND recent basketball titles. You pass, shoot, score then opponents have a try at basket. Basketball is realistically played like this in real life, but we see a lot more excitement and enthusiasm from the tv not the games.
Basketball games can be improved in a lot of ways if more notice would be payed towards what we watch on tv. You look at character movements on tv and you can see how fluent they are, but in the games players seem to have jurky movements when they brush off another player. Another thing is the atmosphere. Everyone knows America is the home of basketball so we feel the exciting atmosphere from the crowd. Okay, basketball games do portray a bit of enthusiasm from the crowd, but only when you score a basket. Then from there onwards the highly anticipating atmosphere vanishes. Totally wrong! The game should continue the high atmosphere until maybe a silly mistake is made by a player, causing a sigh from the supporting crowd. This helps the player become more interested into the game instead of drifting off somewhere away from the screen, which I have seen a lot of due to rubbish Basketball games.
What we want to see is more realism with extra features just to make the game more exciting to play. So far EA's titles seemed to improve year after year, but only by minor touches nothing extraordinary. Still, much respect to them as they create basketball games unlike other naive developers.
Where's Konami? They're the daddy of football games so why don't they have a crack at a basketball title? Are they too cautious of the outcome, I hope not. We've seen many sports titles by Konami and most of them seem to give a true feel to the sport when playing. A Basketball game maybe, ESPN Basketball, would really boost their reputation now and then more people would notice their greater efforts than that of EA's. Still, EA have made great PS2 titles especially like NBA Street and SSX, but it's their Fifa games that seems to let them down. On the other hand most of Konami's developments have been different even though they may not be to their full potential.
All you NBA fans, PC and PS2 owners out there should prepare for NBA Live 2002 (another EA instalment) because from what I've seen of it, EA have finally made something different for the better! At last we can see celebrations and more effective replays when great pointers have been executed. The graphics look crispier than ever and character movements are unbelievably realistic. Players are equipped with many new skills and fakes making for a worthy basketball game, finally!
What I'm sure most basketball and gaming fans would really like to see for the genre would be a Konami instalment of the genre. After all most of their developments have not really disappointed causing us to return the game. Right now basketball games need another willing creator and to me Konami looks to be the one.
Basketball rocks the telly now we want it to rock our sweaty little machines. I sincerely hope GameCube and Xbox make a basketball title because realism in basketball really needs a make-over, and from the WWF preview I've seen for the Xbox there's no stopping them making a basketball game. After all Xbox seems to be America-crazy!
Tenks fur reeding :)
Since gaming really boomed and got a say in the media what popular basketball titles have we received that haven't been made by EA? NBA Hoopz and NBA 2 Night, and these are really the only basketball games that have made an impact for the genre. Where's everyone else? EA from 1996 onwards have produced NBA live titles, just like Fifa titles which have also continued, but why isn't there any other publisher contributing to the sport. We see a lot of football titles willingly been made without hesitation, but quite noticeably this isn't the case with basketball.
What's wrong with basketball games? Well, first of all everything seems too repetitive from what we've seen of
current AND recent basketball titles. You pass, shoot, score then opponents have a try at basket. Basketball is realistically played like this in real life, but we see a lot more excitement and enthusiasm from the tv not the games.
Basketball games can be improved in a lot of ways if more notice would be payed towards what we watch on tv. You look at character movements on tv and you can see how fluent they are, but in the games players seem to have jurky movements when they brush off another player. Another thing is the atmosphere. Everyone knows America is the home of basketball so we feel the exciting atmosphere from the crowd. Okay, basketball games do portray a bit of enthusiasm from the crowd, but only when you score a basket. Then from there onwards the highly anticipating atmosphere vanishes. Totally wrong! The game should continue the high atmosphere until maybe a silly mistake is made by a player, causing a sigh from the supporting crowd. This helps the player become more interested into the game instead of drifting off somewhere away from the screen, which I have seen a lot of due to rubbish Basketball games.
What we want to see is more realism with extra features just to make the game more exciting to play. So far EA's titles seemed to improve year after year, but only by minor touches nothing extraordinary. Still, much respect to them as they create basketball games unlike other naive developers.
Where's Konami? They're the daddy of football games so why don't they have a crack at a basketball title? Are they too cautious of the outcome, I hope not. We've seen many sports titles by Konami and most of them seem to give a true feel to the sport when playing. A Basketball game maybe, ESPN Basketball, would really boost their reputation now and then more people would notice their greater efforts than that of EA's. Still, EA have made great PS2 titles especially like NBA Street and SSX, but it's their Fifa games that seems to let them down. On the other hand most of Konami's developments have been different even though they may not be to their full potential.
All you NBA fans, PC and PS2 owners out there should prepare for NBA Live 2002 (another EA instalment) because from what I've seen of it, EA have finally made something different for the better! At last we can see celebrations and more effective replays when great pointers have been executed. The graphics look crispier than ever and character movements are unbelievably realistic. Players are equipped with many new skills and fakes making for a worthy basketball game, finally!
What I'm sure most basketball and gaming fans would really like to see for the genre would be a Konami instalment of the genre. After all most of their developments have not really disappointed causing us to return the game. Right now basketball games need another willing creator and to me Konami looks to be the one.
Basketball rocks the telly now we want it to rock our sweaty little machines. I sincerely hope GameCube and Xbox make a basketball title because realism in basketball really needs a make-over, and from the WWF preview I've seen for the Xbox there's no stopping them making a basketball game. After all Xbox seems to be America-crazy!
Tenks fur reeding :)