NBA Live 18
"NBA LIVE 18 is all about player control, taking place where skill meets style. Every outcome is based on the actions you take, with mechanics that make every choice and twitch skill more impactful than ever…
NBA Live 18 is a sport developed by EA Orlando, released 15 September 2017 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What NBA Live 18 is
NBA Live 18 is a sport game developed by EA Orlando and released in 2017. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"NBA LIVE 18 is all about player control, taking place where skill meets style. Every outcome is based on the actions you take, with mechanics that make every choice and twitch skill more impactful than ever before."
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the NBA series
NBA Live 18 is the 143rd of 187 entries we hold in the NBA series. The next entry was NBA Live 18: The One Edition in 2017. Its critic score of 68 is 5 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is NBA 2K11 at 92.
How it was received
NBA Live 18 holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 38% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What it launched against
NBA Live 18 launched on 15 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Cuphead, Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Divinity: Original Sin II. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Cuphead, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II.
Official trailer
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