EA is known for packing wallops towards games especailly in the sports genre.Live 03 made it to the box it claimed its postion in the game industry while Live 04 introduced the games previous freestyle input along with the pro hop move which came in handy in the game but the game lacked couple of things while Live 05 giving the chance to tie up those lose ends This time around live introduces freestyle air,slam dunk contest and shootout which was striped in the previous installments with nice features and new editions to the game still doesnt hide the games drag points. The graphics gets an slight upgrade but still at the exspense of the framework also though you can change the attributes to your liking regarding the effectiveness of the frequencies on a basis note the pro-hop is not as effective and the stealing opposing you is at times unrealistic.The slam-dunk contest may not be super up to par but it still stacks its claim in the game and is fairly solid.The shooting contest is pretty much one of the most well put together features in the whole game.The games sound is pretty good to the traxs associated in this round is well sorted bringing new vocals to the spotlight along with familiar sounds to round it out. The nice features inputted into the game made it fairly distant from its predeccesor in comparison but inherits its predeccesors drop points.Making the transition from 04 to 05 at the end is only fairly good.
This is a basketball game that just doesn't seem realistic enough. The camera of this game also seems to be a little off. The graphics are nicely curved though and the gameplay can be very enjoyable. The sound of the gam... Read Full Review
By texasfight54 | Review Date: Nov 22, 2005 | XBOX
This game is pretty good but it has some flaws that just make it kind of boring. Well first, they have slam dunk contest, 3 point shoot-out and a all new all star game. But the AI is just kind of lame. It's really w... Read Full Review
