Jaguar

White Men Can't Jump

Everything else in the game is pretty solid, including the graphics, which are a little strange at first, but end up looking pretty good as you spend time with the game.

Hinter diesem Vorurteil über die mangelhafte Sprungkraft hellhäutiger Europäer verbirgt sich der Titel des neusten Jaguar-Streetball-Spektakels. Der Spieler muß sich mit seinem Zwei-Mann-Team gegen die Mitkonkurrenten eines großen Streetball-Turnieres behaupten.

Oh, boy. What am I playing here? This game is not pleasing to see or hear. The whole perspective of the game gets a bit confusing and hard to play with jerky player movements - especially when it's not well animated. It's really hard to see what you're doing and I'm getting tired of the all-out gorilla ball. I rather stick to real NBA-style b-ball. This game didn't cut it at all, didn't have any air in it.

While Men Can't Jump never lives up to the fun of the movie. It's a major b-bal disappointment and ranks among Ishtar as a move-to-game conversion.

None of the actors appear in the game, and their character names aren't even referenced. Instead, the license is attached to a recreation of generic two-on-two street ball tournaments. Think NBA Jam, without the famous names and in a pseudo-3D perspective. I'll give it this, it's original, and it's a look that could not have been pulled off on other consoles of the time. It is, however, a little flashier than it can handle. Like Snipes' character in the film, it would rather play badly as long as it looks good doing it.

This game is actually worse than games that are bad from start to finish because it had so much potential, but Atari decided that they didn't need to spend a few days finishing it off and instead rushed this horrible game to market. Don't get lured in by the graphics, sound, control or initial thoughts of gameplay. Avoid this game like the plague. It gets the overall rating of 5% only because it comes with a packed in Team Tap that you can use for NBA Jam.