NBA Shootout 2001 review
Posted by @ 7:03 PM, EST
We added a review of 989 Sport’s basketball game.
A slice:

Another example that 989 didn’t get the memo on play testing their games, is the camera work. One of the game designers decided that a typical camera was not suited to show off their handiwork, so they went in a new direction. “Worthless Cam” is what I presume that it’s called, but I didn’t find anything in the press release touting this feature, so we’ll just assume that’s what it is called. After your opponent has blown by your defense for an easy dunk (more often than you’d hope) the camera shifts to the baseline to give you a “better” look of the floor. The only thing this view does is show you what your center is doing down on the other end of the floor, so unless you are going for a Hill to Laettner bomb, this view does little to help.