this game had a lot of great features, and for its time it was a great game... comparing it to todays game wouldnt be a good idea because of course todays games of ea nba live basketball are better in graphics and in adding the dunk contest and three point shoot out contest also..but nba live 2001 was very enjoyable and they did increase from graphics since nba live 2000 by a good amount. it was a classical game and u could even put your face on create a player. i guess that did not work to well because they do not seem to have it in these later games. all the new ones are kind of the same but back around 2000-2003 they had good changes in their games which every year had a cool new improvment to it... now the ones from like 2005-2007 are kind of the same thing.. it seems like all they did was just tweak them a bit by adding a bit better graphics for it and some new players.
this game is and was great