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Summary: EA turns Live into an Arcade game like NBA Jam
Review: NBA Live 2003 is definitely the best basketball simulation that I've played. The graphics are top-notch, with players that are very much like their real-life counterparts. However, one of my favorite features from the 2002 version, custom teams, is missing! Being able to pick any players you want and put them on a team of your choice was great! Why, EA Sports, did you get rid of it? Hopefully, custom teams, plus dunking and 3 point contests, will be in 2004 and make it a 5-star game.
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Summary: Fun, But where's the custom teams?!!!
Review: NBA Live 2003 is definitely the best basketball simulation that I've played. The graphics are top-notch, with players that are very much like their real-life counterparts. However, one of my favorite features from the 2002 version, custom teams, is missing! Being able to pick any players you want and put them on a team of your choice was great! Why, EA Sports, did you get rid of it? Hopefully, custom teams, plus dunking and 3 point contests, will be in 2004 and make it a 5-star game.
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Summary: It's pretty good
Review: NBA Live 2003 is pretty good. I wish it was more realistic though. You can play 12 minute quarters and get up to at least 160 points. There are also way to many fast breaks and dunks. This game is way better than NBA Live 2001, though. The franchise mode is great, the create-a-player options are awesome, and the graphics are sharp and better than any other game for PC. I reccomend this game to all basketball fans.
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Summary: Fun game, but not very realistic
Review: 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.
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Summary: Fun game, but not very realistic
Review: 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.
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Summary: Faster-paced sequel looks like a winner
Review: The first thing you notice is the improved graphics. Even on a GEForce 2 MX, the graphics are a lot better than they were in 2001 (the last PC version of this series). You now select your view before you start a game, and the camera movement is incredibly smooth and very appropriate to gameplay. Everything is smoother and less "boxy" than before, and even with a low-quality video card (though with 512M RAM and an Athlon 1.3 Gig), it just looks awesome.The second thing you'll notice, about 5 seconds after the tip-off, is the speed of the gameplay -- much faster than in 2001. The speed increase makes you feel like you're on hyper-speed, but after a while you start to get used to it, and it does feel a bit more realistic. Much of the gameply in the demo is arcade-style, however, with impossibly-consistent 3-point shooting, breathtaking dunks on almost every attempt, and slapshot blocks that inevitably send the ball into the third row or down to the other basket. Hopefully the full version allows you some more control over the realism levels, but if not this will still be a fun "arcade-style" game. The few complaints I have so far -- time management seems difficult, since the game clock and shot clock are not always visible onscreen (the shot clock appears as time starts to run out, when there are about 8 seconds left). Perhaps this is an option in the full version. The substitution options are actually pretty nice (in an earlier version of my review, I hadn't tried it yet) -- instead of just substituting specific players (which you can still do), you can choose to substitute a "package" -- put in all the starters, or your 3-point shooting squad, or your tall guys. Hopefully the full version allows customization of these substitution packages, since the demo doesn't. I ended up buying a new gamepad to try to take advantage of their newest feature, "freestyle" control, which requires a gamepad with two (analog) joysticks. It's taking some time to adjust to the new gamepad -- my gameplay really dropped off -- but it looks like with some more practice, this new feature will really be nice.
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Summary: good bball game
Review: 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.
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Summary: fantasy ball not for real ballers
Review: the game is not realistic at all if you just like arcade action than this is your game but other then that if you are a serious balller this game is not for you when you score 100 to 150 points by half time then it is time to hang it up i love ea sports games but they took a step back with this one
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Summary: buy nba2k3
Review: the graphics are fuzzy they need to create a career mode the rosters are rong people dont look like themself i rented nba live and nba 2k3 i love 2k3 you will regret deeply if you waist your money on this it stinks!!!!!!!!!!! im glad i did not waste my money on it the music is vvveeeerrryyy repeative it only has about 5 songs id rather watch grass grow than play this i hate it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: A must have game!
Review: The new game NBA Live 2003 is totally AWESOME! The Graphics keep getting better! Dunk with Jerry Stackhouse or shoot a 3 with Kobe Bryant. On Franchise Mode you can create the ultimate team. If you get bored with that (which you won't)you can play 1 on 1 at the beach. Like old school better? Well you can play with old All Star teams. Want to be the best team? You can! All the teams have rankings. You'll never get tired of playing NBA Live 2003!!
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