While not as revolutionary as promised, Freestyle is in deed a welcome feature in basketball games. Live’s 2003 new controle scheme, named “Freestyle”, has been hyped for quite a few months now, promising an absolute control of the player’s movements, and new tricks that weren’t seen in a basketball simulation game. Fortunately, the EA team understood that big changes must be made to the game’s engine, and the new iteration of the Live series definitely surpasses all of the previous ones, while providing a decent fight for the Sega and Microsoft franchises.
The Live series has been absent from the pc gaming market in 2002, which is not much of a loss, since Live 2002 was pretty much a recycled release of 2001, which in its turn was criticized for being too similar to 2000, which was in deed pretty good to begin with, but how many versions of the same game can the average consumer pay for? Yes, you got it right, not that many. So the question is, will EA fullfil the desires of NBA fans that can’t afford a console, and provide them with a basketball game that isn’t just a steaming pile of crap? Well, that depends on how you like your NBA game.
That’s not much of an accoplishment though, since NBA Live 2003 is the only NBA game that will come out for the pc in this year, because the rivaling games, Sega’s 2K3 and Microsoft’s Inside Drive are console exclusives. NBA Live 2003 is the best NBA game that will come out for the PC in this year, and the year isn’t even over.
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