NBA Live 2004
NBA Live 2004 is the 2004 installment of the NBA Live video games series. The cover features Vince Carter as a member of the Toronto Raptors and in Spain copies of NBA Live 2004, it features Raul Lopez. The…
NBA Live 2004 is a simulator developed by EA Sports, released 14 October 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What NBA Live 2004 is
NBA Live 2004 is a simulator game developed by EA Sports and released in 2003. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
NBA Live 2004 is the 2004 installment of the NBA Live sports video game series. The game was developed by EA Canada and released in 2003. The cover shows Vince Carter as a member of the Toronto Raptors; in Spain it is Raul Lopez instead. This was also the first game to feature the Charlotte Bobcats, who would play their first season of basketball in the fall of 2004. Since the game's rosters were finalized before the Bobcats would host their expansion draft, the Bobcats' lineup consisted of players named after their specific positions; for example, the point guard was named "Point Guard".
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the NBA series
NBA Live 2004 is the 73rd of 187 entries we hold in the NBA series. The next entry was ESPN NBA Basketball in 2003. Its critic score of 91 is 18 points above the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is NBA 2K11 at 92.
How it was received
NBA Live 2004 holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 22 points above the year average.
What it launched against
NBA Live 2004 launched on 14 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom and Jak II. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, Jak II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for NBA Live 2004 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Quick answers
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