Lovely gameplay and fantastic gaphics, a must have for sports gaming fans
You have the usual game modes such as career, multiplayer and quck-match but the best thing to do is to either sit down and battle it out with the AI (which is impressively varied through the difficulty settings) or get a mate and play him.
Stadiums and crowd animations are good, complemented by quality commentary that is not disjointed and actually takes notice of what is happening in match-time. Nice touches are while the game loads, you get a movie profile of both team's star players with real NBA clips and well put together half-time reports.
I do reccommend playing this game with a gamepad as the keyboard controls can get on your nerves a bit but overall, just a brilliant game. Slight flaws are quite 'hefty on the old rig' moments when you get a fully drawn out view of the stadium, especially at the 6ers place, where it takes ages to load. Apart from that, a must buy sports game, whatever your style.