NBA Live 2003

Surprisingly my 4 year olds can play this game and do pretty well. This is of coarse a blessing and a curse. What's even more interesting is that they can even pull off some dazzling moves and dunks in the process. While the controls for NBA Street would be impossible to pull anything fancy off for them, this game lets them shoot, pass and dunk with just two buttons. NBA 2003 is one of the most arcadey SIM games to come out in some time. If you like to make most of your jump shots and make a regulation lay up into a dunkaholics dream simply by being near the hoop, this game is for you. The ugly: it's simple offensive minded basketball. Defense clearly is not the name of this game. While it is incredibly fun to block shots in other games, the pacing is so fast with this game that you forget there is ever a need to have defense to make a game feel fun.

Bottom line: Is it fun? The most fun basketball sim. Will I keep it? Yes. Is it for kids? If your kids need a hoops game get this one. If you want a more realistic version of the popular street games with picks and rebounds and such, get this one. If you want complete all out control of your players every move and accurate shot percentage look elsewhere.

Very good game from all aspects except for few non major ones. It is not very realistic so we can't really call it a simulation. What annoys me the most is those impossible scoring runs by the computer. During such stretches the computer will always steal the ball from you, and make impossible shots in succession at the other end. Thus, at higher levels of difficulty, no matter how big of a lead you might have the computer will make a run and catch up. Frequent dunks do not bother me. I like that actually, but what I don't like is easy shot blocking. Every player can average 5 or 6 blocked shots per game. There is a bug regarding the player trade - you cannot initiate it. You can only choose to accept or reject CPU initiated trades. Great feature of the game is option to create and customize your own character. Every basketball fan dreams of playing in the NBA. I recommend playing the Franchise Mode over a long period of time, and not too frequently. Players evolve from season to season. Some players' skills are improved at the start of a new season, while others are deteriorated. I am in my third season with Houston Rockets now. My legs are a bit weaker, and my dunks are not that spectacular any more.

the game is filled with excitement throughout. the plays are good and you can play with yao ming. the bad thing is the speed of which the game goes. the game goes way to fast for real life. Also your teammates aren't that useful. they don't guard. the game is only fun if you are playing on the hardest level. One of the good games around.

NBA Live 2003 is very fun... at the beginning. It is basically a dunkfest. All you have to do is cross over your opponent and do a mind boggling dunk. Sounds fun? Not if you do it 15 billion times. The graphics are great, definitely the best out of all the Live titles. The online play is awesome. It is fun chatting with people and taking them on. The franchise mode is okay, but it gets kind of boring. It is an okay game overall and I recommend buying it because this is only basketball game for PC. By the way, the soundtrack is horrible.

Well as many people did I absoultley loved this game when i first got it and then..well... it got boring after playing for some time and I found myself able to beat any team on any level. This game Nba Live 2003 was not very challegning and I recommend you buy MVp baseball 2003 or Madden 2004 for they will make you happier than Nba Live 2003.