NBA Live 2000 (PlayStation)

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Description

Basketball. Michael Jordan. Facial Animations and speech. Jordan. All the players from the 1999 - 2000 NBA season, including rookies. Plus All-Stars teams from past and present. Oh, and Jordan's back.

Like its predecessors in the long-running series, NBA Live 2000 strives for realistic basketball simulation rather than arcade-like gameplay. New moves have been added in this installments, and opponent AI has been tweaked to make victory more dependent on executing the right moves at the right times. As in the previous NBA Live games, it is possible to edit and create basketball players, as well as create and build an own team. This time, it is also possible to use any picture to serve as a player photo.

New to this installment (beside Jordan) is a one-on-one street basketball mode, and a mode that allows management of a team for several seasons, including trading players.

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Part of the Following Groups

• EA Sports games
• NBA licensees
• NBA Live / NBA Elite series

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Critic Reviews

Daily Radar	1999		100
Mega Fun	Dec, 1999	89 out of 100	89
IGN	Dec 06, 1999	8.8 out of 10	88
Player One	Dec, 1999	85 out of 100	85
Power Unlimited	Mar, 2000	8.5 out of 10	85
GameSpot	Nov 22, 1999	8.2 out of 10	82
Video Games	Dec, 1999	81 out of 100	81
Jeuxvideo.com	Dec 09, 1999	16 out of 20	80
Game Revolution	Dec, 1999	C+	58

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Trivia

Cover

NBA Live 2000 features power forward Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs on the cover. This is weird because Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves was contracted for the motion capture process. However, Garnett does appear on the cover of NBA Live 2001. EA probably choose Duncan because 1999 was the year when the Spurs won their first NBA title.

Awards

• Computer Gaming World
  • March 2000 (Issue #188) – Action Game of the Year
• GameSpy
  • 1999 – Sports Game of the Year

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Related Web Sites

• NBA Live 2000 (official website)
• EA Sports (Official EA Sports web site)
• NBA.com (Home of the NBA on the web.)
• NBA Live Series Center (Home of the NBA live community, a great site with lots of patches, rosters, cyberfaces, etc.)