NBA Jam
3-on-3 arcade-style basketball with over 50 of the NBA's all time greatest players. Enter a Legends Tournament and travel back in time as you work your way up through the ranks in head-to-head battle with the…
NBA Jam is a sport developed by Acclaim Studios Austin, released 23 September 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What NBA Jam is
NBA Jam is a sport game developed by Acclaim Studios Austin and released in 2003. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The premise, in the publisher's words
3-on-3 arcade-style basketball with over 50 of the NBA's all time greatest players. Enter a Legends Tournament and travel back in time as you work your way up through the ranks in head-to-head battle with the best from each era. Each time you defeat a team their players are available for you to use in creating your ultimate dream team. And for some real high-flying action build up your Jam Meter and hit the lights with the over 40 unique Monster Dunks. This game feautres tons of unlockables (teams, courts, and cheats) as well as commentary by Tim Kitzrow and Bootsy Collins.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the NBA series
NBA Jam is the 72nd of 187 entries we hold in the NBA series. The next entry was NBA Live 2004 in 2003. Its critic score of 74 is almost exactly the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is NBA 2K11 at 92.
How it was received
NBA Jam holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
NBA Jam launched on 23 September 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Jak II, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy and The Simpsons: Hit & Run. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Jak II, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run.
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