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NBA Street

Are you ready for extreme basketball? You'd better be, 'cause it's coming to your PS2 fresh from the developers of SSX! Hit the streets for some 3-on-3 hoop action, where flashy moves are your key to victory…

88 18 June 2001

NBA Street is a sport developed by EA Canada, released 18 June 2001 on Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.

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What NBA Street is

NBA Street is a sport game developed by EA Canada and released in 2001. It was published by EA Sports BIG. It is available on Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

NBA Street is a basketball video game developed by NuFX and EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports BIG label. It was released for the PlayStation 2 on June 19, 2001, and on February 5, 2002, for the GameCube. The game combines the talent and big names of the NBA with the attitude and atmosphere of streetball.
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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 Street is the 62nd of 187 entries we hold in the NBA series. The next entry was NBA 2K2 in 2001. Its critic score of 88 is 15 points above the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is NBA 2K11 at 92.

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How it was received

NBA Street holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 77 votes.

What it launched against

NBA Street launched on 18 June 2001, within three weeks of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, Sonic Adventure 2, Twisted Metal: Black and Bejeweled. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, Sonic Adventure 2, Twisted Metal: Black, Bejeweled.

Cheats and codes

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When did NBA Street come out?
NBA Street was released on 18 June 2001 for Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.

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