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If you want a good basketball game for your portable, NBA Live certainly is a good bet for you. E.A. pulled it off very nicely. I didn't think Live could be compacted to a "portable level" but this is a very good start for the portable franchise. It's very similar to it's console cousin, all the "SuperStar" moves are intact. Between the leg passes, pass fakes, multiple dunks, power blocks, power moves ETC. With the absence of L2 and R2 buttons and no R stick however, they did have to make some sacrficies. The backdown button is uncomfortably used by holding down "triangle", and you no longer have freestyle moves. Instead, you have your crossover dribble and spin peformed with tapping Triangle and Square. I sometimes do a backdown with triangle when I wanted to a spin, this is annoying. This is actually the old control scheme on the PS2 before they introduced freestyle moves and veteran Live players will be confused when they go back to playing the console version again. It's old school for sure ,but with the lack of buttons and the R stick, they had to go back to this scheme. Keeping this in mind, getting the open shot isn't quite as easy, as the freestyle moves certainly gave the offense the advantage. The graphics are a cross between a Playstation 2 game and a very highly effective Playstation 1 game. The player models are not amazing, but they look good enough so you can recognize your big name guys down the court. They left out the sideline action, no coaches, no cheerleaders, no sub players, just the court and the fans in the stands. This is certainly due to the limitations of the PSP, but the ingame action is Live all the way. Player movements are very fluent, it seems very smooth and convincing. I would have liked the option to change the game speed a lil', but its a good default. I do have some minor nitpicks. The computer doesn't seem to miss, not just the open shots, but launches 3's constantly and seems to make more than miss. It's a given in a real game, players are going to miss 30-50% of their shots, but the CPU is too good for their own good. Good D is a must if you want to have a chance, especially on higher levels. They also rebound the crud out of the ball and offensive rebounds for the human player are a rarity . Sound is good. Steve Kerr and Marv Albert take care of the commentary and it's about as good as the console version commentary, although expect more repetitive comments. Good sound, and E.A. trax music through and through. There is no franchise mode this year, there is a full season though which will keep most occupied. One on one too. Overall, a very good introduction for the PSP. If you like basketball, you got 2 choices, NBA 06 and NBA Live, both are worth your dough.
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