Classic Game Room HD - NBA LIVE 10 review

Classic Game Room HD reviews NBA LIVE 10 from EA SPORTS for Xbox 360, also available for PS3. NBA Live 10 has taken me by surprise because historically, basketball has not made for good video games. Football, soccer, baseball, hockey and golf have all made a logical transition from the real sport to video games with game cartridges dating as far back as 1978 when the Atari 2600 and Magnavox Odyssey 2 were loaded with playable sports titles headlining their catalogs. Basketball was always buried in shame, rarely featured in ads and stuck on the last page of sales brochures behind the glitz of football. Old school basketball video games were terrible. They consisted of two players facing off against each other with a giant pixel that you were supposed to throw at a line. Whoopie! Id rather play Basic Math.
Fast forward more than 30 years and push aside that faded VCS Basketball cartridge to make room for NBA Live 10. EA Sports has managed to make a basketball game that jumps off the screen with realism and technical mastery while lavishing the player with fun and well rounded gameplay. Players can pick their favorite team, trade players and manage every detail or just dive right into a fact paced game of basketball. The recent slate of EA Sports titles has impressed me with their ability to be played like arcade-style sports games or team management simulations.
Admittedly Im not much of a basketball fan. Pittsburgh doesnt even have a basketball team which left me choosing a team based on proximity. I flipped a coin between Cleveland and Philadelphia and picked Cleveland even through the coin said Philadelphia because I have actually heard of players on Cleveland. I figured that would increase my odds of winning. After a 2-5-0 run through the seas I switched to the Lakers and rained 3 pointers on opposing teams like razor hail on Marcus Fenix (its a Gears of War 2 reference). Hey, you know what NBA Live 10 could really use? Flamethrowers.
Even without the luxury of blasting other teams with liquid napalm I picked up scoring, passing and gameplay with no sweat which is impressive because I barely know anything about basketball.

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[josiah85667]

I want to get this game It more real than the 2Kgames

[JRcraftMC]

do u know if this is easyer than those 2k games? cuz the 2k baseball ones for me are impossible but i love ea games like madden.

[ItAliAnSTallOn585]

i would rather play this than the new 2k and actually do.

[slogsweep]

Mark, you ask can you get cask ales at UK BBL (our Basketball league) games,

Well, you most certainly can! Please come and stay in the UK. I will help you find an apartment/house close to a brewery.

[thenintendogamer]

Pittsburgh didn't have an NBA team but they had an ABA team in the 60s-70s actually 2 I think, the Pipers which won the league's first championship and then the Condors. It along with a few other teams went defunct after the ABA and NBA merged and brought the Nets, Spurs, Nuggets and Pacers over.

[MrSquaky]

I hate how this game has better graphics than 2K12 -_-

[ojideagu]

@hardyman157 English and British are both nationalities.

[timmoobeans]

@hardyman157 lol how do you know what sense i was using it? i said im english because im from england. its as simple as that. I dont link my self to britain cos im a nationalist. Im English, end of. stfu

[hardyman157]

@timmoobeans EXACTLY YOU COME FROM ENGLAND YOU SPEAK ENGLISH, However, in the context of which you used it it shows that you think that 'English,' Is your nationality, you meant to say British, Trust me I know what I'm talking about, I'm studying linguistics at Cambridge university

[timmoobeans]

@hardyman157 Are you serious? you really dont get this do you. Where do you think the english language comes from? England maybe? If your from england, you speak english. the fact teh whole world speaks it to, doesnt mean the whole world is english. And if you still dont get it, maybe you need to go to school and learn about it. OWNED...moron