Music Reviews

I'm both pleased and dissapointed with this game. Let me at the outset share my gaming biases before you bother to read on. I really loved the previous spiderman game and am not a fan of the Grand Theft Auto (GTA)series.

This game indeed borrows heavily on GTA and is not at all like the previous spiderman game. What I LOVE about this game is the incredible degree of control of spiderman as you move him through his environment. Being able to access the ground of the city ala GTA is a definite plus helping to further bring you into the comic book world of spiderman. I also find the graphics of the city at night to look amazing although the overall in-game graphics are grainy and poor similar to GTA. And the recreation of NYC overall is quite an accomplishment.

What I dislike about the game includes the combat which I felt was a strength of the previous game. Instead of the fluid movement of its predecessor this one has choppy, awkward moves complete with a monotonous single slapping sound that is the same for each hit. The combat looks and feels like it was developed by the producers of the campy 1960s Batman TV series and plays like 'Batman Dark Tomorrow'.

Yet worse than the combat are the repetitive, uninspired missions and challenges. This first time you a) rescue a guy about to fall from a ledge, b) retrieve a childs balloon, c) foil an armored car robbery, d) get lured into a gang ambush by a pedestrian calling for help it's all good. However, these scenarios occur endlessly and quickly get old and unenjoyable. Then there are the challenges which basically are like taking the training from the previous game and forcing you to complete them during regular gameplay... but these are worse. Finally, the voice acting is awful and within half an hour I was already sick of hearing the same lame lines over and over.

Bottom-line is its all about the web swinging. Not sure I'd shell out the cash to buy this one if I had the choice again but would definitely at least rent it.

Where to start? This game is not too hard, not too easy, but mostly just FUN. Some games will just challenge you and they are not fun, and the only reason that you play them is to beat Level 46 because youve been trying for DAYS!!!
Well, this game is different. Obviously influenced by the GTA games, you can swing all around Manhattan (including the streets, which is new from the first game), crawl up any buildings (seriously, any, and you can also jump off any building). Being on top of a building and jumping off, or swining anywhere, Spiderman moves with such grace that not only can you almost feel the wind against your face, it seems just like the movie. No small feat.
There are random missions that pop up around the city (i.e. catch that car and save that man from that building), and then there are chapters with more detailed missions (you'll get a headache from the Mysterio ones). You also buy upgrades for your web swinging and combat moves, which brings us to our next thing.
The combat is fairly easy because of "Spidey Sense". Just keep pressing circle and Spiderman can dodge bullets, punches, and even thrown axes. Then kick the thugs in the air and punch the crap out of them while they stay in the air. Tying up thugs and tying them to lamp posts just makes you smile. You've got the power!
The reason I didn't give this game 5 stars is because there is a steep difficulty curve. Like I earlier said, the Mysterio missions are suddenly brutally difficult, and you suddenly have to be skilled at webslinging. Just look at swinging to the statue of liberty. You'll know what I mean.
All in all, this is a great game. To keep up your webslinging mastery just do all the challenges and keep purchasing upgrades.

when I plopped this game into my cousins PS2, I was excited, but also nervous about all the bad things I had heard. WEll, I did notice these bad things, the graphics, tho some nice touches (changing window light on the building, and Spidey's fluid movments) were generally sub-par (tho some of the boss characters look good, especially black_cat!) and yes there were a limited number of street crimes, and the game was too short, and a mite on the easy side. I took a jump of the tallest building in manhatten, swung from one end of the city to the other, and broguth back a little tykes balloon. Then I didn't notice the flaws anymore. All I saw was the fun, engaging, and highly entertaining game that SPiderman 2 is. SO do yourself a favour and RENT THIS GAME. (don't buy it tho, its too short unless your a rich fan.)

Finnally back to the golden days with Snake. Not the crapy ones with Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2. Nitendo decided to make a remake of the classic beggining of the Metal Gear Solid tales. With better graphics, more gameplay controllers, and more bloodier. It is still 2 disc, but its all good.

When this game first came out for playstation, I didn't find much of it. But then when I finnally played it I simply said, good story, good graphics(for ps1 anyways) and it is very fun. The gameplay could be kinda confusing at first, but then you will get use to the controllers eventually. It then becomes addicting. The story goes as an undercover agent named "Snake" is looking for a nuclear weapon called "Metal Gear". The real object of the game is to go through every thing and not get caught. Its not a shoot everyone you see kind of game.

In this version though it looks like they changed the voices because in this version it sounds more clearer then the playstation version. Lets look at the facts:
1.kickass graphics
2.cool game play
3.great story
4.very challenging
5.most importantly (best game ever)
you definatley need to buy this.

James Bond, eat your heart out. Solid Snake is the ultimate super-spy. And now, he's back, in his greatest (and mullet-free) adventure. I thought this was too good to be true. When the announcement was first made, early this summer, I thought that I was dreaming. My fav. game from the PSX generation, redone with the original voice cast but brand-new cinemas, and all the gameplay of MGS2, all for my favorite lunchbox-shaped console. I just about died. Then I saw the previews, and the trailers, and I did die, then came back, and fainted, just for good measure.

The graphics are easily on par with Metal Gear Solid 2, and that's no easy task. The snow in particular (in the first level), looks incredible, especially when flakes stick to your binoculars. The faces are incredibly detailed, and the animation is slick and realistic, despite the classic Metal Gear over the top action sequences. This is a visual presentation that is both different and very similar to what we saw in the original MGS. However, here we have a new director under Kojima's direct tutalege, and a system whose full graphical power has yet to be tapped.

Is there any reason not to get this game? Honestly? Perhaps, if you didn't like any of the other Metal Gear games. Other than that? NO. There is so much talent oozing out of this project, it almost qualifies as toxic. From Silicon Knights who are handling the brand new engine and level design, to Miyamoto-san, who is assisting in maximizing the control and gameplay, to Kojima-san. This is his baby, and he is overseer of this project, even though he and his team at Konami are busy working away on MGS3: Snake Eater. These guys know how to make games.

I don't know of any downside to this entire development, except possibly the inability to include VR missions in this title. However, with the wizards who brought us Eternal Darkness, Zelda, and the original Metal Gear Solid all working on the title, along with the full returning voice cast, and Harry Gregson-Williams returning to redo the score, this looks to be the first killer app on the GC in 2004, and a title that may be able to hold its own against the onslaught of Halo 2.

Any gamer who likes the slick hollywood style presentation of the Metal Gear games, or who enjoys steath-action at all, owes it to themselves to watch this thing develop, and grab it up as soon as it hits shelves.

I never really played the old metal gear solid game buy i recently purchased Sons of Liberty for PS2. And boy was it great. So I saw a commercial for Twin Snakes and i thought "What the Heck..It looks good. So I bought it. IT BLEW MY MIND. AWSOME STORY. GREAT HAND TO HAND COMBAT, FUN FIRST PERSON. SIMPLY AMAZING.That pretty much dercribes it

With the horrible release of NBA Live 02 a year ago the EA production team realized that if it wanted to compete w/the NBA 2k franchise it had to make a competitive game. Gone from last year are the horrible 3 point bank shots (thank God) and the weak AI. The new analog control scheme that EA invented is "revolutionary" in what it brings to the sports venue. With this new analog control a player can perform a plethora of cross overs and fakes to break a defender down. The commentary is much better than last year, however the player animations could have been better. Looking at NBA 2k3 you can tell the facial differences of each player, however in Live 03 the facial features seem to be alot alike. Actally the game deserves about 3-4 stars, there are some problems here and there (e.g. defintion, the fast gameplay), but what game doesnt have its' problems. In the "basketball wars" between Live and 2k, I think that 2k may be better, but not by far, EA is on the right track (hopefully they'll stay there).

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Ok so I was crazy about this game when it came out, then I bought it and it was a great game. but after a while the game comes repetitive, Such as if you do a season on a hard skill level your oppenent has great speed and they will score every time you miss a shot on the fast Break. Also when you are on a fastbreak the oppenent will block you off with there amazing speed. Also if you're playing and you start to get careless in the game(and believe me you will get careless} they will take total advantage of you. Also the oppenent will score at will every time even if its Shawn Bradely driving to the whole. And if youre trying to cross them to the hole they will block you off and you will get called with the Charge. Overall it is not that good of a game.

Problems:
1. Any time you get like a 10-point lead, your team will now miss every dunk and lay-up until the CPU evens the score. This is not an exaggeration. I am completely serious. Strangely, however, sometimes you'll start a franchise team that will never have this problem. But I'd say 4 out of 5 will have the dunk/lay-up problem.

2. Any CPU point guard with a 3-point icon will be the leading scorer for the CPU team, draining threes with people in his face every time, against set defenses. If you play the Lakers, for example, Shaq won't miss, but will only end up with 10 points on 5-for-5 shooting, while Derek Fisher will end up with 33 on 11-for-20 three-point shooting.

3. If you have a lead in the last minute, the CPU will hit every three-pointer anyone but the worst shooter puts up, and will steal the ball from you most times, but, oddly, will not intentionally foul.

4. Nobody gets open on the inbounds plays, and half of your team will be off-screen.

5. No good player will resign with your franchise after a season if their contract is up, even if you win it all. They will, however, settle for a one-year contract for minimum pay with a crappy team. All the superstars end up with such contracts, but you do not have the option to negotiate prices and cannot sign superstars, who demand full price from you.

6. Most rookies the game generates will be given a sub-par field-goal shooting ability, but an above-average three-point shooting ability. In other words, can't hit from 15 feet, but can hit from 25.

There are other problems that make you think the development team was on crack when they made it, but, as one of the great mysteries of the universe, this game is still very fun and addictive to play. Why, God, why?

I have a gamecube and the memory cards and it's great you'll never lose your data and it wont erase unexpextedly. But, there are some problems. It doesnt hold enough memory for enough games. One sports game can take up the whole memory card which means if you're going to buy a lot of games then your probably going to need a memory card for each of them. But this is a must have for any gamecube owner. Or you could just leave your gamecube on all night and all day until you have beaten the game, but you might not want to do that. One thing i am very happy is that they have made a new memory card that can hold 251 blocks instead instead of 4 mega bits, not mega bites which is 4 times more information then the standard ones. You can purchace that memory card at amazon. I'll definetily be getting it. Overall i give this 3 stars but like I said it needs to be able to hold more memory.

This card does everything a card should. Save games. Save a lot of games. And, it's inexpensive. Some people complain that the amount of Megabytes that it holds is lower then the compitions, but the truth is that it doesn't matter. With Gamecube you don't need to save a lot of info, and the card can hold 59 different saves, but some saves take up 3 or 2 spaces, although a lot, at least from Nintendo, just require 1 out of 59 spaces to save.

If you haven't gotten a memory card for your GameCube yet, 1)You are really stupid or 2)You don't have any games yet, which makes it okay. But when you DO get games this is a much needed item, and you should only trust your saved data to the best... Nintendo. The guys who know how to make this stuff and it's the most reliable memory card out there. Don't fall for those other guy's bigger storage- .5MB seems like not enough but it is plenty. I have a friend who can fit Super Smash Brothers, Luigis Mansion, THPS3, and Star Wars Rogue Leader all on the same memory card. And there's even more room to spare after all those games on it. But I advise you- if you get sports games like Madden or FIFA, you should probably get about one per each game because they eat up a lot of space. But fortunately these things are only 15 dollars, and they won't put a dent in your wallet.

I greatly suggest this title to all Xbox owners out there, but be forewarned, some do not like this style of play; rent it before you buy it. Here's my rating of different aspects of the game on a scale of 1-10:

Graphics: 9
The graphics are beautiful - prerendered bliss. The outdoor levels are superb. It's amazing to watch the sun reflect off of a scyscraper while web-swinging through the air. I wasn't as inmpressed with the indoor levels, but they were sufficient.

Voice Acting: 8
It was nice to hear the actors from the film do voiceovers. Although I enjoyed the trademark Peter Parker sarcasm, he sounded completely disinterested at times. William Dafoe (I hope I didn't butcher his name) was a different story. He sounded genuinely evil!

Storyline: 8.5
The storyline stuck to the movie's plot enough so that that those of you don't follow Spiderman understood the plot. But it had an original tinge to it, adding many surprises and including characters such as: Shocker, Kraven the Hunter, Scorpion, forget the others, and of course, the Green Goblin. The levels were bridged with short movies that explained what was going in detail.

Gameplay: 10+
Ahh, this was the section I was waiting for... Even if everything else about the game was terrible, the gameplay is only surpassed by perhaps Halo. The satisfaction I get from grabbing on to the Green Goblin's hovercraft in midair and reapeatedly punching him makes me tingle. Memorizing and trying to unlock new attack combos is excellent. The variety of fighting styles is mind boggling. The levels get proggressively more difficult, but they're always manageable with a little use of that gray matter poppin' out of your head.

Replayibility: 6
I enjoy exploring the specials and trying new cheats, but the replay value isn't that great. The designers could've included difficulty levels or something. But oh well (sigh)...

Multiplayer: 1
There is no multiplayer! The only reason I gave it a 1 is that you can take turns on the missions with your friends.

Party on! Buy Spiderman!

I have eagerly anticipated the Spider-Man game for about two months now, and I'm not disappointed at all.

The game is supposedly loosely based on the movie, although they've thrown a few wrinkles in, like adding supervillains Shocker, Vulture, Kraven the Hunter, and Scorpion, in addition to the Green Goblin. Tobey Maguire is the voice of Spider-Man and Willem Dafoe is the Green Goblin, with Bruce Campbell voicing the "tour guide", who explains how things work in the game.

The gameplay is very well done. Spider-Man moves just like he does in the movie previews. Fights are well done, especially the boss battles, which are unpredictable and difficult, but not impossible. The control scheme, even the "enhanced" version, is easy to master and use. The only problem is that, occasionally, when you're crawling on a wall, Spider-Man won't go the way you want him to. Also, you constantly have to readjust the camera so that you can see what you're doing. The one other complaint is that certain "stealth" missions are almost impossible to stay stealthy in.

The game is absolutely stunning to look at, especially the outdoor areas. The cityscapes are huge and highly detailed. You can't tell the difference between foreground and background. The enemy characters are also highly detailed and look as real as the main characters. There is also no hint of slowdown at all.

The music in the game is also excellent. I'm not sure, but I think it comes straight from the movie. Most of the voice acting is top-notch, especially Dafoe's Green Goblin. Unfortunately, the exception is Maguire as Spider-Man. He's extremely low-key and at times seems like he's disinterested completely. Making up for that is some snappy writing, especially the trademark Peter Parker sarcasm.

Overall, the game is exceptionally well done. There are little problems that only slightly lessen the experience. The bonuses they included also make this a worthwhile investment. I'd recommend to any Spider-Fan or action game fan.

I loved this game. I have played levels over and over again. It is really fun. I don't think it's all that hard. Okay so the big machine in Oscorp and hiding from the Oscorp is a little challeging, but overall it is fairly easy. I recomend this game to people who love to go across the city via web and to anyone who liked the movie.

Though lacking the depth of FPSs like Halo, Medal of Honor Frontline is certainly a worthy game for anyone looking for a bit of WW2 action, even with it's sometimes quirky AI in which sometimes the Germans all shoot with sniper precision and sometimes with ridiculous stupidity.

You play as Jimmy Patterson, the toughest soldier in the U.S. Army, you shoot, bomb, and snipe your way through six missions with several levels through WW2 scenarios like D-Day and Operation Market Garden while completing objectives like blowing up tanks and infiltrating Nazi-filled parties undercover. To the unpacient, it may get old after a little while, but if not, there's plenty of shooting to please hardcore FPS fans.

Graphics-4 out of 5: not the Xbox's, but good anyway. Though the characters sometimes look a bit polygonal, the grimy war landscapes look great, which add to the realism of the game.

Sound-5 out of 5: this is the game's best aspect. Weapon effects taken directly from their real life counterparts, a dramatic music score, and good voice overs perfectly recreate the eerie sounds you would hear in a WW2 battlefield.

Control-4 out of 5: everyone knows that the Xbox controller is perfect for FPSs (the Controller-S, that is), and this game isn't the exception, though accesing your arsenal is a bit clumsy with the black and white buttons. For those who think Halo's controls are the best, there's even a Halo-esque configuration in case you've gotten used to it.

Fun-4 out of 5: even with it's AI and graphics issues, Medal of Honor is certainly a good FPS for action fans and even casual gamers, and it's also the only game that perfectly duplicates the WW2 atmosphere with flawless precision; definetely don't miss it.

graphics suck, engine sucks, gameplay sucks, AI sucks, mission design sucks, you play 45 mins to get to a place and wham, some three soldiers just spawns before your eyes, you kill them, and go on, and wham, some three more just behind you ... no realism, no intuitive spots, no nothing ... a total waste of money and attention.

LET ME JUST START BY SAYING WAY TO GO EA YOU GUYS MADE IT YOU DESERVE THE MOST UPMOST RESPECT AND GRATITUDE.I PLAY ALL GAMES I OWN ALL 3 CONSOLES AND A PC AND IM FINDING MYSELF MORE HOOKED THEN EVER WITH THE XBOX RUN OF MOHFL.THIS GAME MAKES U FEEL LIKE YOUR REALLY IN THE FIGHT I MEAN LIKE ITS SCARY .IT STARTS OUT STORMIN THE OMAH BEACH IN FRANCE AND THEN FOLLOWS INTO 20 MISSIONS FROM WW11.THIS IS A FLAWLESS GAME I CANT STOP PLAYING FOR HOURS AT A TIME THE GRAPHICS ARE GREAT THE GAMEPLAY IS GREAT THE CINEMA SCENES ARE REAL AND PUT U RIGHT IN THE FEELING OF WAR.
JUST REMEMBER TO PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR COMPASS IT WILL HELP U GET
THRU THE GAME ALVE AND ONCE YOU LEARN ALL THE CONTROLS U WILL BE FLYING THRU THIS GAME BLASTING OFF ROUNDS AND JUST WAIT TILL YOU GET YOUR HANDS ON THE AUTO FIRE CANNONS THOSE ROCK.ALL IN ALL THIS GAME IS A PERFECT 10+

I have played this game for about a week. Here are some of my thoughts for it:
The gameplay of MVP 2004 is based on the previous title MVP 2003 with some obvious improvements like big play control, and different types of slides you can choose for your runners. The graphic is a little bit better than last year. The commentary in the game is the same old stuff. I have always loved the music in this series. And of course, the new improved dynasty mode and complete AA and AAA seasons are just make this game more fun to play.
There are still many little things may bother you here and there in this game. First, you will find it is extremely difficult to get a walk (In rookie and pro level, the computer controled pitchers will just throw strike 85% of the time, and in All-Star and MVP level, they will fool you easily with the fast movement of the balls.) The player creating system is still weak. You only have few options to edit your new player's appearance. I hope they can learn it from Tiger Wood's PGA tour series. The hitting is now very difficult to master in All-Star and MVP level. The right analog stick is playing a much more important role in the hitting. On the other hand, the pitching is still a little bit boring.
Overall, this game presents much more challenges than last year, and you will easily find yourself spend some quality time on it during your leisure time. I don't know if this is the best baseball game for this year. But one sure thing is this is not a bad game!

This is the best baseball game ever. The graphics are incredible and the game is so realistic. If your pitcher isn't doing well, you can send your manager out to talk to him. If the pitcher isn't happy about you coming out, his performance level goes down and vice versa. The pure swing system isn't too hard once you get used to it.

The realism is incredible. I got hit by a pitch. On the screen it flashes "To charge mound, press triangle." I charged the mound and the benches cleared and several players got ejected. If that happens in Dynasty Mode your players might get suspended.

Dynasty mode is great. There is every single AA and AAA team and you can play their games. There are rainouts (which result in doubleheaders later in the season),suspensions etc. You even have an "email" system where the players,staff and media send you messages. Players might email you complaining about their contract or playing time. The Front Office might email you that you're about to lose your job. The media emails you about injury updates, trades and more.

This game is great!

This is the best baseball game ever invented!! The reality level is the most ive ever seen, the graphic enhancement is unbelievable, the player control is sWEET!, the pitching is fun, and the added bonuses are the best. i give this game five stars easily hands down. if your looking for a realistic yet very fun baseball game go out and buy MVP Baseball 2004!

Gone are the days when players stock up on one weapon type, and lay the smackdown on others by simply shooting a few times. Now, you actually have to THINK. Use superior tactics to win a battle, not necessarily superior weapons. An extremely intuitive Mech Lab allows you to customize your 40-foot 'Mech with almost any combonation of Ballistic, laser, missle, and other weapon types.

Couple that with beautiful, smooth, realistic graphics and extraordinarily accurate physics, and what do you get? Ladies and gentlemen- I give you *du du daaaah* MechWarrior 4: Vengeance. This game really deserves the 5-star rating I've given it. Kudos to Microsoft for making such a deep and engrosing tactical simulation.

Ryoken.

...I found out that there was a brand new MW3, I bought it right away. Itkicked some serious butt. But neither came close to the goodness and perfection of MW4, which remains my favorite game. In this, you can control 21 mechs, which are basically like big walking tanks (sort of, but picture lots cooler). Sure, the game might not be TOTALLY realistic, but then again, it's a sci-fi game. All in all, I think that this game is perfectly balanced, because the programmers followed the mech creation rules from the Battletech RPG. So even small mechs, if played with right, can take out assault mechs. If played right, then it could be vise versa. I can play both ways. It takes some figuring out, but this ultra-good simulator involves strategy on the field, and I love that. The campaign is good, but to top it all off, there are instant action custom missions, along with multi-player. There are over 50 weapons that you can choose from (you can customize your mech, following tonnage rules. Your mech's tonnage detirmines how many tons of weapons your mech can carry, and each weapon has a certain tonnage. it's cool). well, I better stop talking by saying, BUY THIS GAME!

walking around, knowing your in a monster robot that can crush a military tank like it's made of plastic, including awesome weapons and graphics, makes this game AWESOME! you can pilot small Mechs, such as the Shadow Cat, which aren't very powerful but are fast, or you can pilot huge, lumbering, powerful Mechs, such as the Atlas and Daishi, with awesome firepower. However, the characters in the main story ARE a little bit annoying. The main character talks like a senseless weirdo. "Please. Go ahead." "Yes, of course." Duuhhhhhhhh. Not as annoying is the computer voice that always says, "Target destroyed." You get used to him after awhile.
The weapons totally rock. There's long range missiles, long tom artillery, lasers, LBX's,(which are like a series of shells), gauss rifles, ppc's, (my favorite beam weapons), which are lightning bolts that make your screen all wobbly and shaky when you get hit by them, and lots of others. one of the best primary weapons is when you combine clan machine guns and pulse lasers into one weapon.
some weapons, like the NARC beacon, flare, autocannon, flamer, and short range missile, kind of stink
well, anyway, all this to say........Mech Warrior 4 ROCKS!!!

This game is HOT!! Its not one of those boring games where you have to walk around alot. ITS JUST PLAIN BRUTAL!!! All you need to do is KILL!!!! Its a hot game and I think people should get it. It's AI is also good too because your enimes dont just stand there and get shot, they jump and move just like you do. ITS A HOT GAME!!

...And it's great. Unreal Championship for the XBOX is just like UT2003 for the PC. Overall, graphics quality is decent, or at least the lightning effects are. But texture quality is amazing. Animation quality is OK. And the audio quailty is good. The game play is fun. Multiplayer is good, the only thing that bothers me about it is there is only system link support play and XBOX live support, no single TV multiple controller support. And the frame rates get quite laggy in UC for XBOX. The level design and game types are overall good. But UC's music tracks aren't perfect, and it gets very laggy in game play.(I already said that, didn't i?) Well, I can say that UC will be the biggest DM game type XBOX LIVE game for a long time....very long time! UC is quite gory like UT2003 is. The Rest of the content type is decent. I'd recommend UC for some gamers on the XBOX. It's an OK additon to your XBOX libary of games. Hhmm...I'll stay tuned into UC for now...:/.

On the XBOX, UC looks awesome. With blazing graphics in your face, great audio, Advanced AI, and the same ol' UT/UT2K3 gameplay UC looks like it's gonna be a hit on the xbox-and XBOX live helps it big time! UC basically looks the exact same as UT2K3 for the PC, but just with different characters and maps. I do have UT2K3 for the PC, and I wasn't impressed by the game-play and weapons. Also, the weapons look similiar in UC as they do in UT2K3. Yet, my PC wasn't quite powerful enough to render UT2K3 with an high amount of detail and effects + high resolution at a fast paced smooth frame-rate. I expect UC on the XBOX to be a hit. A big one. And this may be the best multiplayer death-match mode game on the XBOX!!(of course I own an XBOX myself...) Look out Unreal fans, because here comes out of nowhere a whole new whoopin' unreal title for the XBOX!! =]

Yo homegurlz and homeboiz out there I be MaRiO A.k.A 99 cent! I didn't by the game yet but i will (i'm saving up) I already got SIX dollars!!!!!!!! This game looks H-O-T HOT!!!!! I don't now who to start a season with but i think maybe blazers, knicks, cavilairs (with LeBron James and all:) or maybe relive the excitement of the NBA Finals 2004 and start of with the Pistons! But in till I get enuff bling-bling I'll let you no how i think of it :) Peace homieZ and nice knowing ya! And ALL WAYS have a ball :)!

I rented this game this year instead of buying it because of the garbage that EA had last year. I also played the Espn game and it was horrible too. I can't believe that the people that own the best sports game out there (Madden) cannot create another franchise mode similar to the one that is so successful. If they cut and paste Madden's franchise mode to NBA live it would be one of the best games ever. Year after year since live has been on PS2 we have had the same gameplay, except for the freestyle gimmick which is useless, but I hope that they change the franchise mode and they never do. This year is the worst I've seen where only the star players get a rating in the 90's and the next best player on your team is a 70. Who came up with this rating system? And from year to year your players stats never change. You think you're going to be the Cavs and make Lebron awesome good luck, 10 years from now he's still 77 or whatever he starts out at the beginning of the game. I was totally heartbroken to see the pathetic attempts at basketball games this year from both companies and I hope that next year they can fix this because one of the reasons I have stopped becoming such a hardcore NBA fan is because there isn't a game that I can play anymore to get me in the mood to watch basketball.

Im a big fan of the NBA Live series, its always satisfied me, and this version is a great improvement from the others. Everything in the game is fine, all the new features are pretty cool, except the training mode where you dont get to train anything, you have to watch your players in a half assed montage where theyre supposed to be training, and everything has it flaws but nothing too dissapointing...except for this: CPU NEVER SHOOTS! Hear that? Your computer teammates will never put a shot up by themselves...EVER! give the ball off to your best scorer, call for an Isolation, now in NBAL03 they would have juked their defender one their way to the hoop and finished with a nice dunk or layup, easy two points, but in 04 your teamate will just stand there and either get the ball stolen or hold on to the ball until the shot clock runs out. So basically you have to score every point or else you can forget about winning. Its very frustrating. Another bad thing is way too many easy shots roll out of the hoop. You can take the best player and run right up to the basket and try a quick lay up or short jumper and somehow itll pop out, and even when you run a perfect alley-oop and yout teammate catches it and throws it down itll STILL pop out most of the time! This game has its quirks but its worth playing if your a fan, personally Im going to give ESPN BBall a try, considering its superiority to Madden, Im sure its much better than this.