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 - Best basketball game yet!This game is awesome its got TON'S of characters such as the beastie boys.I love this game.The only bad thing about it is that fruity dj cucumber...whatever everything else is good! BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!(: Rating: - soo coolthis game is so cool and its better than street 2. it has cool graphics Rating:  - Don't botherGraphics - LOOKS better, but the camera is worsened. Clipping still around. Sound - 9 tracks, no custom soundtrack is a disgrace...if any other company pulled that I bet MS would strip their dev. kits. Oh yeah, the announcer is wack too. The surround sound is mediocre. Control. There is no reason not to have 3 turbo buttons when there are free buttons on the controller. The trick stick is a nice idea though even though it takes a long time to adjust to it. This game doesn't have the casual appeal of the first two games. Online play - VERY slow level system. In order to sustain interest people would have to play different types of games...well I'll tell you the only games you'll find that get played are normal ones. Besides that the community for this game is not big enough to hold the system EA has in place up. Most people will tire of the gameplay(which is worse, discussed below) WELL, WELL before they have any kinds of decent stats and simply quit. Also the way they have random players on your team makes little to no sense. Sure you have NBA games but it still is bogged down by poor gameplay changes. Gameplay - For one, steals are too easy and it practically ruins the game. It's ridicoulous. Next paint camping is alive and well. Most people who make noise online have 7'5 players who just sit in the court all day. EA should of make a 3 sec. violation. Next belive it or not the games shooting isn't even right. It's almost random. One day your tall guy will sink 5/6 threes and then the next three games you'll skinny guy will make 2/15 threes. It's the same deal with dunks. The loft passes are stupid(getting the ball stolen right when you catch the ball is what made me sell the game) and the dunk contest is nothing more than a novelty. Finally, they changed the gamebreakers. Now strategy is goine, once you master it you can get the max points every time and the only way to stop it is mash on the steal button before they get to the paint. So in the end avoid this game, you have been warned. Rating: - Great game....despite flawsTrue this game is similar to vol 2, however I can't decide if it's easier or harder than vol 2. I found that game play with the trick stick is alot more fluid than you'd imagine. It comes with more tricks as well since you get a different trick with all 8 directions of the stick (and that's without using the turbo buttons) But as easy as this is it becomes really difficult during game breakers as you have to pull off the moves yourself with this stick. If you try to do to many tricks at once, you simply fall and don't get you gamebreaker. You also have to remember to pass mid dunk otherwise your the only one that dunks the ball. Besides this flaw stealing is way to easy this time around no matter how good your handles are. Power also has a big impact on this version. If your not very strong I found it's more difficult to get a dunk off in traffic. The only other negative thing I can think of is that the street legend and earning skills took a turn for the worse. Vol 2 was easy to see where to go and what you had to do to get better. This time around your given a pick of different contests to choose from at various locations including your home court. I've found that choosing the wrong one doesn't get you hardly and "street credit" which is needed to play bigger events. You only have 7 weeks to earn street credit and build your attributes. I'm in the middle of week 4 and only have 422 street credit and avg. 40 points in most categorys and haven't lost a game yet (43-0). In Vol 2 you knew how many points you'd get before you started playing somewhere. Since I mentioned it before earning money for attributes was fine in vol 2 since it went fast and your player got up to speed with everyone else, but v3 only lets you buy 1 point at a time and since they range in value it incredibly difficult to max out any one specific category. Don't even bother buying shoes or anything else, since they don't help you in the long run you'll be wasting your time and money (did I mention that you have to buy players to add to your team and not just get them after you beat them, this gets way to pricy too). All in all the game play is really fun, sometimes repetative, but really fun. My only hope is that as I progress it gets better and easier. I guess I was simply expecting alot more and hoped they would change the broken parts (e.g. tricks, graphics) not the good parts too (e.g. game breakers, street legend, atributes). Here are my final thoughts: Game play: 5 Graphics: 5 Learning ease: 2 Options (list can be overwhelming): 5 Overall value: $35 (not $50) good changes vs. bad: 3 Overall I still give it a 5 simply because I'm a fan of the street franchise and I since I haven't beaten the game there's still hope for improvement. Definitely rent first...Enjoy Rating:  - Liked NBA Street Vol. 2 moreThis game is fun, but as this is the 3rd installment I was a little disappointed. Maybe my expectations were too high. I recommend renting it first to make sure you like it. Pros: -Online play is fun -Dunk Contests Cons: -New Trick Stick -Poor Training mode compared to Volume 2 -Online play is 1 player per Xbox (no guests) -Graphics aren't any better than Volume 2 -No Michael Jordan
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