NBA Hangtime

"Shamma Lamma Ding Dong! This game is great!"

This game can be described using one line from the game itself. "Shamma Lamma Ding Dong!" The quotes in this game are great. Now, onto the review.

Graphics - 8/10
The graphics are 2d, but they look great. The crowd looks great, the players heads are the actual NBA player's heads, and when you get on fire you are on fire. It is awesome, but the graphics are a little basic.

Sound - 9/10
The sound is fitting. There are shoe screeches, commentators, grunts and slam dunk sounds. It all fits together oh so well. The music however, is repetitive. It needed more tunes.

Gameplay - 10/10
This game is fun. Each team has two players each. It's 2 on 2. Your character can run fast, and do special moves by using his 'turbo'. This is very fun. You can shove people, swat the ball out of their hands and defend your goal. However, if you grab the ball just before it goes in, you get in trouble for "goal tending" and the opposing team gets the points. Also, slam dunks and shots in the arc give you 2 points, while long shots outside the arc give you three. To beat all the teams in this game, you have to team up with a human player. One of you pushes and dunks, the other one does the 3 pointers and defends. So you need a small, tough guy for your attacker, and a tall, thin guy for your defence. It all works together, and making it just a little bit more realistic is like adding tomato sauce on your chips.

Extras - 10/10
You can create your player, which is fun as. Some of the designs are bizarre, such as troll heads, wolf men, aliens and animal heads. When you create your player, you can edit it's head, costume, attributes, name and give it a name for the commentator to call it. As you win more matches with your player, you earn more attribute points, which can be used to make your player better. Also, there is a trivia at the end of each match. It is a basketball themed multiple choice question relating to Basketball, such as "When was Michael Jordan Born?" or "How many times has the Chicago Bulls won?" You win attribute points by getting the question right. These extras are great.

Overall - 10/10
This game is very fun, but with a human player, it so much funner. You got lots of players to choose from, and the replayability is great. I once played this game all night to the following morning with my cousin.

Rent or Buy? Buy it. I am not a fan of basketball games, but this one is extremely fun. And who doesn't want to make a tall orange guy with a basketball head named "Bally"?

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 08/13/07