
Unfortunately, even after a decent amount of practice, they still were not always agreeable. After a handful of games, however the controls grew on me and generally seemed fairly straight forward. Everything does something different, depending on which mode you are playing in (not to mention if you have the ball or not). The controls, while being intuitive, definitely required a little bit of time to adjust to. Now that we have that out of the way, let us proceed with the review. I have not watched a full game… ever, and I could not name a single player outside of Michael Jordan (thanks only Nike and Wheaties).

Just to make sure we start off on the right foot, I wanted to make it clear that I am not a basketball fanatic. Yet here we are in 2004, and I am reviewing the newest NBA Live game released by EA Sports.

I never was able to get into the sport, and I never really saw what other kids saw in it. Despite my height and coordination, I was more likely to place the basketball in the street than the hoop. The assumption that I would be good at basketball was a fallacy at best.

Whatever the reason I often was dragged out onto various basketball courts. Perhaps it was because of my lumbering and lanky height perhaps it was because I had long arms and good hand-eye coordination.
