We've traditionally been uncommonly generous to EA's annual basketball outing, regularly saddling it with all manner of plaudits. Our enthusiasm has been mainly fuelled by the realisation that it offers a comprehensive representation of a game that we are largely unfamiliar with, replete with all the razzamatazz associated with high-profile American sports. We can safely say that it's a slam-dunking, hoop-busting extravaganza. But do any of us ever play it? Do we bollocks. No sooner is the game reviewed than the disc is tossed aside like so much used pornography.

This year is different though. This year we're not going to get suckered into fawning over it just because it looks good, has plenty of options and delivers a game somewhere in the region of playable. All of those things are true of NBA Live 2003, but none of them are enough to sustain anything more than a few hours of interest.

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Problems

If the true test of a sports game is its two-player mode, then NBA fails. No matter how realistic the stadia are, how accurate the players' faces look, how seamless - and occasionally amusing - the commentary is, no amount of gloss can justify a game that basically involves a tedious cycle of running up to a basket, sticking the ball in it, then watching your opponent do the same until you're told to stop. You might as well just flip a coin.

The crux of the problem is that it's nigh on impossible to defend, with your armoury restricted to little more than a half-hearted lunge or the occasional leap. For the man with the ball, a swift burst of turbo is usually enough to secure yourself a reasonable vantage point from which to shoot, an activity that requires little or no skill other than the ability to press a button.

It Doesn't Make It Ok

But hey, you bleat, that's what the sport of basketball is like, a quickfire high-scoring fastmoving game. Correct, but that still doesn't justify spending $30 to recreate it on a monitor. Anyway, it's clearly more suited to the big screen, and the game shows its console roots in a sloppy fashion, with on-screen instructions urging you to do something or other with the second analogue stick.

Ulitimately, the game isn't too bad in short bursts, and nothing more. And even if you do want to own a basketball game, seeking out a budget version of a previous incarnation would be a shrewder move, as the data updates will only be of concern to aficionados of the sport. NBA Live 2003 may well be the best basketball game on the PC, but that's the equivalent of being the best-looking girl in Wales.

NBA Live 2001

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It's Not Just Getting Older..

For reasons known only to the design team at EA Sports, NBA Live 2001 is not as good as its predecessor. This is a pretty good trick, actually, as for all intents and purposes, it's the exact same game as its predecessor. You'll have to look close before you'll be able to tell one from the other, and even then the disparities are often subtle. Tallying the differences between NBA Live 2001 and NBA Live 2000 are as easy as picking out the elements that distinguish a Backstreet Boys single from one by N'Sync.

And just as good a use of your valuable time. NBA Live 2001 just isn't a rewarding game. Both veterans of the long-running series and newcomers will pick out more and more irritating flaws as the number of games played begins to mount. Even though the NBA Live brand name has been around for going on a decade now, it's never quite captured basketball as well as it could, or as well as some of the early efforts promised. Last year's title was arguably the best ever, though, a fact that magnifies the shortcomings of the new game and makes one think that some sort of opportunity has been squandered here.

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..Okay, It's Just Getting Older

Gameplay issues, many of which were rectified or seemingly on the way to being rectified last year, strike the gamer like a Karl Malone forearm to the face right after the tip-off. The NBA Live series has always featured slightly wonky player movement more akin to boots on ice than sneakers on parquet. Last year's game introduced some refinements to this ongoing problem. This year's game takes us almost back to square one. It's as easy as it ever was to unintentionally go out of bounds or simply lose control of your player and the ball for a moment or two. There's just an awkwardness to all motion that makes it difficult to really get into the action and really feel like you're taking part in a basketball game.

From showtime with the Answer to hitting the playground with Vince and Julius.Computer AI seems dumbed down. The PC drops the ball in virtually every area. Substitutions make no sense at all - be sure and turn off auto-substitution immediately. My starting point guard Steve Nash once took a foul five minutes into the first quarter and didn't return until the third. Thankfully, the CPU is just as hard on itself. The computer's Shaquille O'Neal once vanished from a tight contest with seven minutes to go and never returned. These are isolated incidents, but similar ones happen consistently through each and every game.

All CPU-controlled teams employ a standard, dishwater dull offensive scheme that emphasizes ball control. Conservative is the watchword here. You'll want to scream after a few games of seeing your adversaries do nothing but walk the ball up court, over and over again, in all circumstances. The lineup, the score, the time remaining on the clock---none of this seems to matter a whit. I've seen the computer lazily in-bound the ball, then wander up the court and not even get a shot off in the dying seconds of a two-point game. Needless to say, witnessing something like this can destroy all of the preceding fun.

Situational play also doesn't seem to get in the way of the computer's preset game plan. Hang back on killers like Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson and they'll usually just sit there, idly dribbling and waiting for the shot clock to tick down to five or six seconds before attempting to score. This dreary pace seems to have been implemented to keep scoring down. You can now play a full 48 minute game and end up with final tallies that are dead-on duplicates of what you'll see on ESPN Sportscenter. In the short season I just wrapped up with my redrafted LA Lakers, I never once scored more than 113 points. However, I did count around 164 yawns per game, so keep in mind that there's some trade off here for statistical accuracy.

And Maybe a Little Sleepy

Rebounding is another serious issue. In many ways it's almost a game killer, since even the most patient gamer is likely to be driven momentarily mad by it on occasion. Why? Well, simply put, rebounding doesn't work. The ball comes off the rim and the board at weird angles. You really can't predict where it will end up, meaning that you're best off giving up on boxing out opponents and just jumping in a randon direction a moment after the shot is released. Even then, the opposition will come away with the ball most of the time because your computer-controlled players tend to just stand around and look at it. While all enemy players in the vicinity madly scramble to corral the loose ball, you're typically all on your own. This supremely annoying problem caused me to walk away from my gamepad more than once in the past few days.

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