basketball

I bought this game because I love college sports and thought a college basketball game would be great. I played NCAA Football 2002 which was perfect. So I thought it would have some resemblance to the college greatness of NCAA Football 2002 (I love that game). After 1 shot you will realize you can easily nail 3 point shots with a 7 foot center. The graphics are horrible, the players move like Super Nintendo, and worst of all they don't even have the real players numbers (which they do in ncaa football). The recruiting is horrible and so is the rest of the game. Save your money, don't buy it.

Unlike past reviewers, I don't think this game is garbage. Although it could be improved a lot. There are some minor glitches in the game such as inbounds passes being slow and every once in a while the ball appears to go through players. I think the complaints about it being too easy can be taken care of by simply raising the difficulty level. It is too easy on freshman level, every shot seems to go in unless you really shoot badly. But on junior or senior level the gameplay is realistic. The graphics aren't that good however for a PS2 game. They could have improved the graphics by actually making it look like it was set at the court of the home team instead of simply using the court graphics of that team. The fans aren't nearly as realistic as in other games, such as the EA Sports football games. I also wish they'd included an option to enter players names rather than just their numbers. The sound from Billy Packer could have been improved a lot as well, it's repeated a lot.

Overall, this is a decent game but EA Sports is better.

This game is absolute garage! The only reason why I kept it longer than three hours was that I was exactly interested in the career mode were you choose job offers from different schools after each season. It's sad that 989 didn't have an option to move to the pros because who would what to play a game as boring as this one for any extended amount of time! I agree with everyone who gave this game the pathetic one star rating it deserves. I had more fun playing "Bulls v.s. Blazers"!