NBA Live 2005 Review

I recently tested out NBA Live 2005 on Playstation 2 and was only somewhat pleased.

While the game play was about average, the graphics and the dunking were not. I've been using P2 for a couple years now, and performing some of the more difficult dunks is a challenge. Probably the best part of the game was the back-down spin moves and the different alley-oops that the players can do. Other than that, it's pretty generic and again, the graphics kind of suck.

One of the features I was looking forward to testing out, the All-Star events, was a pretty big letdown. I tried out the dunk contest 3 times and wasn't able to even catch the ball ONCE. Why make us, as the user, go through a training video just to learn how to perform the most basic of dunks or to even catch the damn ball? Huge letdown here...

For my money, ESPN NBA 2K5 is the better game - the graphics are better and the game play is above average.