Due Fall 2001 for PS2.
I’m not a big sports game fan; I’ve always been of the mind that it’s more fun to go outside and play soccer than it is to play it in the living room on the TV. If I can do it in real life, why do I need a video game to emulate it for me" This is not to say that I can perform an excellent bicycle kick or slam dunk a basketball, but I could try. For me video games allow me to do things I could never do in real life, so when I play a sports title I like it to be over the top, if not just downright silly. NBA Jams threw emulation to the wind and came up with a highly playable and additive game that remotely resembled basketball. Well all that was nothing compared to NBA Street. I like to think of it as a basketball game meets a fighting game. EA is pushing this game as “street” and wants all the “ballers” out there to go “hook up” with a copy. To me street has a sense of authenticity, but NBA Street is not at all about real basketball; it’s about special moves, slam dunking, power meters, last minute victories, and super charged lighting. In other words it fulfills all my B-ball fantasies and excludes any of that pesky reality.