NBA Street V3

       Like the previous installments, NBA Street V3 slaps reality off the court like a weak lay-up and delivers an arcade-style basketball game overflowing with fun factor. Alley-oops and tricks moves are in abundance, as are the innovations that make V3 unique and hard to put down.

      Anyone who played the previous Street games knows it's all about style.It's not just scroing points, but busting trick moves to make defenders look like fools, then soaring to the basket. Or better yet, taking off for the dunk, then hooking up a teammate who's taken to the air for an alley-oop.

      Its a winning formula, taking basketball, exaggerating ot and removing the elements that slow the game down so that it's faster-paced and more action packed. And while the developers could have just updated the rosters and tacked on some new features, there's no much in V3 that makes it better than the already great Vol.2

     The first thing gamers will notice is the new look. Where the last game looked very cartoonish, V3 looks very sleek. It's almost like everything sparkles, like everything was meant to go "bling".

     There's also lot of detail given to player movements. This happens not only when you do a trick, but also with the reaction of the defender, who miht look up confused, or stumble over, or whatever else would be the appropriate reaction to the trick. Reactions look particularly funny when you do trick passes like Off the Heezay or Off the Bootay. A favorite details though is the way a player's accessories will move appropriately. For example, if you take to the air wearing some bling-bling around the neck, it will float up, swing around, then come back into place when you land.

     When the last game had a trick button, V3 gives us the Trick Stick. By tappng the right analog right stick you can perform various tricks, one assigned to each direction and the diagonals. You can tap in eight directions, and do trick variations by pressing different turbo buttons. This means that at any time, as long as your handling rating is high enough, you can perform any 32 different tricks.

    String tricks together and you build up towards the new and improved Gamebreaker. You still have the choice to throw up the ball for two points and deduct one from your opponents, just like in the last game. But now you can also take to the air and do mid-air tricks which fill up a meter. Fill up that meter and you can get 4 points. Since it's a risk, because if you pull it off, you could come away with four points, but if you don't , you wind up with your butt on the court.

What's Street game without the moon-like gravity?

     Dunk contest tricks are performed in the same was as Gamebreaker tricks. Get in the air and tap the right analog stick while mixing up turbo buttons.Despite that, there's more than enough good gameplay to keep you playing V3. And if the gameplay wasn't enough, there are the new customization features. Almost like an RPG-mode, gamers get to create their players in streetball challenge. With each win they earn Style Points to upgrade skills or buy new clothes or accessories. Aside from skills and pre-designed clothes, gamers can also create their own shoes. Adding to your player's character, gamers also get to create and upgrade their home court.

Do the dunks right and watch the points roll in.

   V3 is a great installment to the NBA Street series, with all fun elements of the previous version and tons of new features.

Bring mad game or get your ankles broken with this version of NBA Street.