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PS2 | Sports | NBA Street

Boxart for NBA Street
NBA Street 27 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 5.0
  • SOUND: 4.0
  • CONTROL: 4.5
  • FUN FACTOR 5.0
  • AVG USER SCORE 4.7
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 4.7
Winner of the GamePro Editor's Choice Award

First Look: NBA Street

First Look by AIRHENDRIX | 05/17/2001 | 11:29:52 AM PST

This sizzling two-player streetball game could do for fantasy hoops what SSX did for snowboarding.

Leave the Hardwood Behind
The EA Sports Big line of games set high standards when it launched snowboarding phenom SSX, and it seems primed to continue that streak with NBA Street. This sizzling two-player streetball game could do for fantasy hoops what SSX did for snowboarding?yup, an early preview was already that good.

Why? Because NBA Street is anything but the latest take on NBA Jam. Street puts NBA players on the asphalt for three-on-three action that packs in plenty of wild slams and jukes without venturing into the absurd, as do Midway?s games. The controls were immediately comfortable and the gameplay instantly addictive as you battled to be the first team to score 21 points.

Pass the Rock
Street hits its stride with a creative lineup of modes, beginning with the City Circuit. As with a fighting-game ladder tournament, you?ll begin by tackling the lowest of the NBA?s low (Vancouver and Toronto), battling up through the ranks past ?bosses? known as Streetball Legends, finally taking on Michael Jordan himself. Busting ?tricks??off-the-backboard passes, crossover dribbles, dunks, alley-oops, and more?will earn you special moves (like a game-breaker shot that takes two points from your opponent and gives them to you) as well as credit toward new shoes, custom-player improvement, and so on.

The Showoff mode will be all about razzle-dazzle as you focus on pulling off tricks, and there will even be a Street School that tutors newbies. Lastly, the Hold the Court mode will challenge you to go on a winning streak as you strut your stuff by beating down wave after wave of NBA squads. Street will round it all out with an authentic streetball atmosphere and some seriously slick visuals. If EA Sports Big delivers on the promise of Street, you?ll be playing it all summer long.


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