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Depending on your point of view, streetball may be either two-steps forward or one-step backward on the evolutionary scale of basketball. But in the world of videogame sports, NBA Street is definitely rocking the top of the entertainment scale. NBA Street is the frontrunner in the EA Sports Big stable of over-the-top urbanised sports, and with Street V3, it’s forging ahead into new territory.
Street movement
First off, this game has looks. The player models and the court have been almost completely revamped from the previous game to be nearly unrecognizable – in a good way! NBA stars are an impressive blend of the Street-standard stylised look and the heads and faces of the real deals. The 12 authentic courts look at once gritty but beautiful, ghetto but gorgeous. Whether for Xbox or PS2, V3 is easily one of the best-looking games about a sport that requires a ball.
Although the visuals may dazzle you for a while, this 3-on-3 game’s got moves, too. V3 has transformed the right analogue stick into the Trick Stick. You can use the stick in combination with other buttons to create an array of about 30 outrageously complex dribble moves. If you’ve seen any streetball, you’ve seen all these moves as well – V3 does an excellent job of placing them at your fingertips, but it does take practice. You can work them with equal aplomb with either Xbox or PS2, but the PS2 controller feels particularly well suited with the multiple stick/button movements.
As you string together this masterful ball handling, you cap it off, of course, with a monster dunk or some other airborne score. The game is about stringing together Trick Stick scoring drives into combos, which in turn can be racked up to fill the familiar Street Gamebreaker metre.
Got smarts
The ‘Breakers, though, undergo a change of their own this season. You can learn to fully control your Gamebreaker moves and also use them to involve your two other teammates as well. Putting on a three-man aerial show is about as tough as it sounds, but making the Gamebreakers controllable definitely improves the strategic aspects of the game. Although the flow of the game with its mesmerizing ballhandling, wicked passing, and hyperballistic, stratospheric scoring moves is as frantic as ever, V3 at least feels like you can put together a rough gameplan.
Learning teamwork is a good idea, too, because V3’s other cool addition to the Street game is a sort of franchise mode called Street Challenge. Here you create your own streetball team and home court and then take on all the other teams including all-NBA squads. Here’s a franchise mode that most sports gamers might actually want to play!
Straight to the street
The creativity in this game isn’t confined to the courts, either. In fact, you can create a court, create a team, create a player, create a book of personalised tricks, and even create your shoes. Talk about your street legends! NBA Street V3 is putting in its bid.
Specs:
Requirements: Microsoft Xbox
Rating: 85%
Price: EUR*59.99
Contact: Gamestop 01 872 4305
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