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NBA Live 08

NBA Live 08
From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games

List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $3.94
You Save: $6.05 (61%)

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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 9 reviews
Sales Rank: 3979

Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 98, Windows 2000
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.4 x 1.1

MPN: 15349
UPC: 014633153491
EAN: 0014633153491
ASIN: B000QB059E

Release Date: October 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: ******BRAND NEW****** ** Over 1.5 million orders shipped worldwide and more than 500 000 items in stock, BUY FROM A TRUSTED SOURCE, ESTABLISHED SINCE 1998 - INETVIDEO ~~~

Customer Reviews:
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3 out of 5 stars Hits and misses   June 20, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The game hasn't changed much since the last couple of years, but it still keeps you entertained. My favorite part of the game is playing on Dynasty Mode. You get to choose your players and your coaching staff. It feels like you were a real GM of your favorite team.
I like the new FIBA World Championship. I just wish you could play single games with international teams instead of having to play the whole championship.
I feel like the commentaries while you play for this game are not as good as the ones from NBA Live 2005. Creating your own player was better, in my opinion, in that game too.
I kinda miss the option of watching the cheerleaders coming out at halftime in NBA Live 2000. I wish they still had that option. Even though it serves no purpose for gameplay, it feels more realistic.



1 out of 5 stars Wow, this is complete junk...   February 29, 2008
 8 out of 8 found this review helpful

I just bought this game yesterday and have not even began to examine this game in-depth, but I'm already almost completely turned off. I installed the game and got to the menu screen with no problems, the irritation began when I started a new dynasty. Made it through the draft, staff signing, and training camp and was looking forward to the upcoming season. First things first, I had a couple players I wanted to add to my roster so I went to the trade screen and was immediately irked that I could not find player salary listings. This makes it almost entirely impossible to trade if either team is over the salary cap as player salaries on both ends of the trade need to be equal (or within 20%). It took me forever to get a trade completed that was equal, as you are offering blind. Moving on very irritated, I went to update my starting lineup to plug the holes that my trade had just created only to learn that the idiots at EA forgot to add the reorder rosters button into 2008. You literally have to manually adjust the starting five before entering each game, but that doesn't solve the issues if you sim games... Anyway, highly irritated, I moved on to my first game, manually setting my starting 5. Tipoff, game starts I've got the ball hit Peja Stojakovic who is wide open on the perimeter for 3. Missed, got the rebound, back out to Peja, missed, over and over again. I've always been a good shooter in the NBA live series and by the time I exited the game, about half way through the 1st quarter, Peja had missed 10 straight 3s (most of them wide open...). Other problems in game were as listed in the other reviews. One player taking every shot, wild baseline fading while leaning left/right shots for 3 being drilled, awkward player movements, inaccurate game fatigue (Shaun Livingston about ready to drop dead from fatigue 6 minutes into the 1st quarter), etc... Irritated beyond belief and amazed, I quickly checked NBA Live's website for an update, "there has to be an update for these problems, there must be...", I said to myself, I was almost speachless when I found that there was not a single update to be had on NBA Live 2008's website. Keep in mind that this is MONTHS after the games release. Sure, amateurs have thrown together workaround fixes, but these require downloading game modifiers and manually loading them into the game folder. EA really dropped the ball on this one. They have, in effect, released a half completed game and have failed to remedy the situation. Do EA employee's even try out their junk before it's released? It took me 5 minutes to find fatal flaws in this game that make it well near unplayable as is (and retailing at 50-30$, this is a complete slap in the face). With NBA Live 08, EA is saying loud and clear that they don't care about ripping off their loyal consumer base. I have bought EVERY NBA Live since 99 and have NEVER been so disapointed with the end product. When EA releases NBA Live 2009, I'm going to have serious reservations about buying, if I ever buy...


2 out of 5 stars Not as good as the old versions   January 9, 2008
 8 out of 10 found this review helpful

I haven't played the NBA Live series for a few years but this one turns out to be a disappointment. What I'm saying is, it is not as realistic as before .

In the game, the opposition's offense concentrates almost on only one, or maybe two players. For instance, when I play against the Raptors, Chris Bosh would attempt like half of the team's field goals. Other similar examples are Antawn Jamison and Gilbert Arenas in the Wizards, and Kobe Bryant in the Lakers. Often times half of the points scored by the opposing team are from only one player. I remember, in the previous versions, say 2003 or 2004, the attack was more balanced.

The opposing team also tends to make some very unbelievable shots, like off-balance/fade away from beyond the arc while I could miss layups. And players like Kobe, Lebron would just dunk, dunk and dunk and you couldn't stop them no matter who you have in the paint. Maybe it's me, but I've been playing the game since 1998 with Tim Hardaway on the cover. I can say I'm a pretty experienced player on this and these didn't happen.

The biggest joke of the game is its simulation which is completely unrealistic. I opened a season mode and I checked the boxscores of the CPU-against-CPU matches. I was amazed how could the likes of Tim Duncan, Yao Ming, Pau Gasol and Shaq attempt like 5 to 10 3-pointers in a game and they actually made them as if they were Jason Kapono.

I was completely turned off by the lack of realism in the game and I decided to only play a single match once in a while.

Since I haven't been playing the game for 3 years, what I said above might not be new. But it certainly didn't happen 4 years ago.



4 out of 5 stars good game   November 16, 2007
 6 out of 12 found this review helpful

Works great if you have an advanced graphic cards. But very similiar to last years, except for a couple of added features (You can play a world tournment and can do more spin moves).This game is very easy to master, and tends to be repeative. Must have the right specifications, which are only featured on the boxs. I wish EA sports mentioned the specifications on the website, so you can know them before you buy the product.

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