UGO writes: "Consider, for a moment, that basketball video games are all siblings. Sega's 2K is the honor roll student: serious minded, dedicated, and well-liked. EA's Live is the jock: popular, easy-going, and fun to be around. Now let's consider poor NBA 09 The Inside. Sony's franchise is the red-headed stepchild of the bunch, doomed not by his own shortcomings, but rather by his brothers' overshadowing strengths.
"It's not fair," NBA 09 The Inside whines. "I have a deep franchise mode too! And I can download situations from actual NBA games to be recreated virtually. And I have lots of mini-games and a compelling story-based one-player progression mode!" Well, guess what, Ginger? So does everyone else, and they do it better. "
EverGeek:
"But if fast goofy fun is all you want from your basketball game, that's great. But you certainly shouldn't be expected to pay the same sixty bucks the top NBA games command."
Would Crispy Gamer play this game for more than an hour? No.
Why? They don't have the head for technically sound, five-person basketball. They would rather just push people over and put up massive dunks.
With a token nod to the role-playing as athlete mode most sports titles are including these days, The Inside's version, "The Life," is shallow and lifeless and, thus, not worth living through.
But if fast goofy fun is all you want from your basketball game, that's great. But you certainly shouldn't be expected to pay the same sixty bucks the top NBA games command.
4 out of 5 ....the biggest sony supporter me would have to give this game a 2 . ... I bought it i buy all sony exclusive ...this game sucks....go with nba2k.....spend $120 on basketballs game.
