NBA Live 97
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…
NBA Live 97 is a sport, released 31 October 1996 on PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What NBA Live 97 is
NBA Live 97 was released in 1996. It was published by Tec Toy. It is available on PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
NBA Live 97 is the third installment of the NBA Live video game series by EA Sports, released in 1996. The MS-DOS, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation versions featured polygonal models for the on-court players, thus marking it as the first 3D EA Sports basketball sequel for the series. It was also the first NBA Live title released for the Saturn. The game received mostly positive reviews for its advanced graphics and wide array of available moves and plays, though the Saturn conversion was reviled for numerous technical deficiencies. NBA Live 97 was followed by NBA Live 98 in 1997.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the NBA series
NBA Live 97 is the 30th of 187 entries we hold in the NBA series. The next entry was NBA In the Zone 2 in 1996. Its critic score of 80 is 7 points above the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is NBA 2K11 at 92.
How it was received
NBA Live 97 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 70% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
NBA Live 97 launched on 31 October 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for NBA Live 97 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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