Making its way to the newest generation of game consoles, NBA Street has found a new home to ball on.
Electronic Arts built NBA Street Homecourt specifically for the new hardware of the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 and features a new animation engine and control system. The new trick remixer takes advantage of a two-button control scheme to string together combinations and fake out the defense, while putting the ball through the hoop has gotten even more over-the-top with double dunks, stepping off a teammates back and new completely wild Game Breaker moves.
Homecourt looks to bring home many of the country’s hometown street courts from which NBA stars first made a name for themselves. The NBA players starring in Homecourt have been rendered into the game along with all the game’s environments, which feature 360 degrees of view.
The title’s career mode once again features the rise from rookie status as players create a character by mixing up an avatar, combining NBA stars to meld a player based on their strengths. Through game play, players will be able to improve the abilities of their custom creations as they dominate courts from coast to coast.
During a character’s journey, players will have the opportunity to humiliate NBA stars on their real-life home courts. When that’s not enough, players looking for some competition can take their created player online against others for even more bragging rights.
Homecourt adds another first to its features as it includes a handful of popular WNBA stars. Featured for the first time ever are six female hoop stars – including Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and Sheryl Swoopes.
NBA Street Homecourt will be released for the Xbox 360 Feb. 20. The title will hit the Playstation 3 on March 6.
Article comments
1 - Jay
i dont think that it is fair for the game to just be comin out on the 360 and PS3, it should come out for all the systems...that way everyone would have a chance to play it...not everybody has the new game systems..some cant afford it...it's really a waste of time...its like saying you either buy the new game systems, or you wont be able to play it all....
2 - Matt Paprocki
Eventually, that's going to be the case. Should they make it for the Super NES too? Systems die and systems are born. This is hardly the first case of a next generation exclusive. I can think of at least 15 off the top of my head. It's getting to be the time to upgrade.
3 - Ken Edwards
You have to admit, coming from EA, this is odd to only be a PS3/360 game. I mean, EA puts stuff on your Toaster Oven for crying out loud.
4 - Aaron Auzins
Yeah, unfortunately at some point, you have to draw the line. NBA Street Homecourt was supposedly re-built and I'm sure it has a bunch of features that wouldn't be possible on the previous generation of systems. It stinks, but in every generation of video game consoles, people have to eventually pony up and step up to what's new.
5 - drew
haha, yah i remember those days, when i would be mad, but now i got a 360 so its fine with me!