NBA Street: Move over NBA Jam, Street is now King of arcade hoops
Dinamyte
90% score
NBA Street offers NBA Jam-style gameplay without the over the top
acrobatics that made the Jam series so.... over the top, lol. Street
introduces an innovative new system of combos and special moves that
are executed by tapping certain button combinations similar to a
fighting game. Special dribble moves, shots, layups, and dunks add a
special element to this game that puts it in a league of its own when
it comes to arcade-style hoops.
NBA Street offers good graphics and great sound, as the commentary
supplied by Joe The Show is just sporadic enough to avoid that dreaded
repitition that we all hate from commentary. There are plenty of
unlockable courts, teams, players, cheats, and goals to give you a
reason to tackle the City Circuit Mode. In it you are required to
defeat all the NBA teams plus some other special teams created by the
developers. The Hold the Court mode, however, offers nothing but
unlockable shirts and shoes for your created players.
NBA Street is a very innovative and fun title for solo gaming or with a
few friends. Plus, NBA Street has never looked better thanks to the
power of the Cube, which leads me to describe NBA Street as only my
friend Eric can; "It's the bomb diggity-dank duke sh*t." Buy it.
