

Nine times out of ten schizophrenic sports games that try to force-feed wild over-the-top antics into an obvious basketball sim with rules and dimensions and everything end up pissing off fans of either type of game. The most interesting aspect of NBA Live 2003 is that it somehow brings blatant arcade and simulation elements together to coexist peacefully in one game.

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Plus the new Freestyle control system on the right analog stick could actually be the gaming revolution that EA's marketing types have been hyping up so much.
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This latest version of NBA Live succeeds because it allows gamers to focus on the most exciting and entertaining parts of NBA basketball but with all of the rules and realism you'd expect from an all out NBA simulation. With Sega's popular NBA 2K series making the jump to all three next generation consoles last season, NBA Live 2003 pretty much had to do something great to keep EA in the game.
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The last time we checked in on EA Sports' NBA Live franchise, the 2002 edition was choppy, devoid of any basketball artificial intelligence and had too much focus on the flashy, more superficial elements of professional basketball.
