Das Gamer writes: "Ok let's get it straight, I'm not a baller. I suck at basketball video games and haven't really played one since the seminal classic, Double Dribble. So, why am I getting to preview NBA 09: The Inside? Because, haters, SCEA built this game for the pick up and play audience surrounding full scale b-ball play with tons of mini-games designed to keep this disc in your PSP for the long haul. Does it look like it's got a shot at succeeding?
Well, here's the tip off, The Inside, doesn't disappoint offering up a staggering amount of options for the on-the-go gamer. Shit, you'd have to book a flight to Tasmania to fully enjoy all the flavors up for grabs in one sitting. A new Franchise mode, where your decisions on the draft, signing free agents and management of contracts, finely hones your team into the straight-shooting roughnecks of your liking. The seamless design of gameplay, play-by-play commentary and blazing hoops action might be old hat to devoted fans of hardwood sims, but it took me by surprise."
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.
