Let's get one thing out of the way: we're not sports gamers (at least not this blogger). Sports fanatics may want to take that into consideration when reading this. So, we downloaded the NBA Street Homecourt demo and played a few pickup games. All in all, Homecourt seems like a very decent title. Each baller has a plethora of tricks to shake opponents and go in for positively monstrous dunks. The tricks are activated using one button. Different tricks are activated depending on how long you hold the button or if you're holding a modifier button. In essence, it felt a lot like pulling off tricks in a Tony Hawk title. You also get rewarded for linking lots of tricks in a row (again, like Tony Hawk).The tricks, though, are secondary to the dunks. If you've seen the dunk video we posted earlier, you'll know what we're talking about. Dunks in Homecourt are insane. On top of the already huge dunks, players can score double dunks if they time things right -- and yes, a double dunk is worth double points. The game is fast and furious, and you can lose the demo pretty quickly if you don't pay attention.
Controlling the game was a little confusing at times, especially given the variety of tricks and maneuvers available, but we imagine that this would be overcome with practice. Overall, we liked the demo and look forward to trying out the real thing.
Did you like the demo? Did you hate it? Leave a comment and tell us what you think.
1. The gameplay was so intense that I immediately got the burning desire to hook up with some ho's and father three illegitimate children and then put out a bad rap record. Of course, after shooting up 'da club!
I give it 2 aeight's and one who 'dat!
Posted at 1:39PM on Feb 2nd 2007 by Jas