|  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.
 
 
 
Sarah
Wichlacz |
