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61 of 63 humans found the following review helpful.
THE college experience
By Timothy Andrew Lewis
I just want to commence off and make it clear I have broad researched both this title and EA’s March Madness 2003, freed two weeks before. For those looking for an intense, full college atmosphere, look no further. I have talked to and read conversations from humans who have played both games and I may realistically say this is a MUST have game.
Not only will you be stunned by the amount of person courts and person arenas in this game, but you will in a literal sense be stunned by the 300+ Division 1-A teams in such a fine game. Run Loyola Marymount versus Drake, and get a fine game while you do it.
This is way much more of a simulation than MM 2003, so if you want to take one guy and undertake to breakdown an entire team, you may have a good deal of success, but you’ll get blown out if you play any person good. This game is around team concept, and using screens, motion, and playing good defense. Throw a full court press at them to generate more turnovers, or play a good solid zone to strength them into bad shots. It’s real college basketball. There’s no 142-131 games or 35 dunks, rather there are EXTENSIVE amounts of layup animations and realistic dunk animations. A 6’0″ guy from the WAC won’t run in and hammer down a reverse, rather he’ll move the ball around and toss in a beauteous reverse. Still, big time players will throw down huge time dunks. Don’t think there aren’t fast breaks or this game will play slow, rather it will be very fast paced fitting the college style, yet team play will be what gets you to win.
Right when you commence up the game, you may have the game randomly generate names for each player in the game from it is name database, and then you may go in and edit the ones you know. That way, the broadcasters will call out every, single players name and give you the licensed ESPN broadcast that you will become awed at.
The Dynasty mode is incisively what a college BBall fan could ask for. Take the school of your choice and run their operations for a length of time. Recruiting is outstanding, and there are even High School All Star Games (6 of them) so that you may in truth play with the people you will want to recruit. Revolutionary. If you would rather run a firstborn person dynasty, you may create a coach and edit his styles and find a occupation and move him up through the ranks to creating his own program at any school.
Wanna have a dynasty with multiple players? You can. At least 4 may have teams in a dynasty, so you and your friends may take your teams into years of play and trade off who is better, etc… That alone will be worth buying this game. Online play? It’s included.
The pure amount of features in this game combined with the fast-paced, yet team oriented game play will make you missing something if you don’t add this game to your collection. I genuinely believe this could compete for Sports Game of 2002 and even the initial half of 2003.
20 of 23 humans found the following review helpful.
Now THIS is NCAA College Basketball!
By James Nelson
I wrote a review for NCAA March Madness 2003 from EA Sports, and it is a mute game. But when ya get your hands on Sega Sports’ NCAA College Basketball 2K3, you’re headin’ straight to the no. 1 company that brought us Virtua Fighter, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc.
Let’s get to the best parts. My favored part is the engine that plays just like NBA 2K3. It’s at it is best in Simulation Sports. Sweet moves and dunks genuinely shine in this department. The fundamental interaction with the players and the crowd is more sweeter. The coaches likewise look real.
The intros before the game are realistic and exact with the announcer saying their names and the coach’s names too.
The graphics are 100% better. You get dissimilar stadiums with names, while NCAA March Madness 2003 has 3 measly stadiums. The arena floors are beautiful! Also, you get cheerleaders too. That’s another plus. The jerseys on the players are lookin’ good!
The sound is marvelous, like you listen the crowd cheering for your home team, and they put up the name of the school with each shot you make for your home team. The commentators in this game are like Steele and West in NBA 2K3; for they are better than Dick and Brad in NCAA MM. They call your names, too! I love that feature! The fight songs are cool.
The game modes are great. You got Exhibition mode, Tournament mode, Online mode, Practice mode, etc. Gym Rat is like Street Ball in NBA 2K3, but you play in a gym of the home team. Excellent for honing your skills. Legacy mode is what it shines, and for a good reason: You may import your graduates at the end of each season into the NBA 2K3 game! You heard right, folks! You may import them into NBA 2K3! Now that’s what makes this game better than March Madness, and it’s “BEYOND AWESOME, BABY!”
My final word: Get this game if you determine amongst NCAA March Madness 2003 and NCAA 2K3. One answer you’ll say is get NCAA 2K3. Looks like EA Sports “Can’t buy a bucket” with what they missed.
I have a new slogan for Sega Sports…
“Sega Sports: It’s REALLY in the game…for real!”
8 of 8 persons found the following review helpful.
Great stadiums – Pure BBall Sim
By A
This game is just like college basketball – scoring is much harder than the pros. Forget the EA series of basketball games, where scoring is easy and everyone has nonexistent defense. In this game, the defense sticks to you like glue and the only way to score is to run plays and pass around the ball. After each basket you score, you’ll celebrate!
There are 300 (that’s right) . . . 300 teams in this game, and each one has it is own specific (real) arena. Even the structure of the seats around the court is distinctive to each arena. You may see in the dome stadiums (like the Syracuse Carrier Dome) where the extra seats were added to convert the stadium to basketball. The players don’t look in particular lifelike, but the stadiums more than make up for it.
The only knock on the game is that the plays are sort of complex and are hard to follow. It has a scrimmage mode that runs through the plays, but it’s gorgeous confusing. Even if you don’t know where the players are supposed to move, the plays will probably open up chances to score anyway.
In summary, this game is closely a pure basketball sim and I rate it highly in light of it is few flaws.
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