NBA Live 97 is a basketball game with an emphasis on realism. You can choose from all of the NBA teams, create a team with players you create yourself, or choose a team formed by the All-Star players of the east or West coasts. When you create a player yourself you can customize the player to a high degree. There are over 60 offensive and 10 defensive set-ups. Match options include an exhibition match, a whole season or the playoffs.
SportNon-fictionSuper Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Saturn, PlayStation
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Character
Earnest, plot-driven, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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About the game
- Platforms
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Saturn, PlayStation
- Developer
- Tec Toy
- Publisher
- Tec Toy
- Released
- October 31, 1996
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
IGDB rating 8.0/10 from 13 ratings.
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Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
Both earnest, plot-driven, grave.
Both earnest, plot-driven, grave.
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Both earnest, plot-driven, warm.
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