NBA Jam 2001
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NBA Jam 2001 is a sports Game Boy Color game made by Acclaim Entertainment as licensed basketball simulation for the 2001-2002 NBA season. It was the follow-up to NBA Jam 2000. It featured Karl Malone, Jason Williams, Reggie Miller, Jason Kidd, Latrell Sprewell, and Scottie Pippen on the cover.
Why It's No Jam
- The music in this game is horrendous and is basically watered-down to fit the Game Boy Color.
- The main menu music is even worse, especially by Game Boy Color standards.
- The password feature is unnecessary, because in future NBA Jam games, it has an autosave feature, or even gives you the option to save.
- The voice acting for the commentators sounds like robots, especially by the way that they are talking.
- Playing the Season Game mode is nearly impossible because as mentioned on WIS#2, the password feature is required to play, meaning that this game is nearly unplayable if you don't know what letters or numbers to put in.
- The same thing applies to Playoffs mode, meaning those 2 choices are inaccessible unless you have the password memorized, which this game doesn't even bother to give to you.
- Practice mode is very boring, as it is possible to get a basket easily.
- Meaning while you play the two modes that were mentioned above, it is still possible to either win or lose (if you can master the awkward controls).
- The graphics at best are very bland and look like somebody copied and pasted the players' pictures onto Microsoft Paint.
- The controls are very stiff and makes it impossible to even score a basket on the Head-to-Head mode.
The Only Redeeming Quality
- This game does offer you the option of having you play with a friend, if you and your friend have the exact same game.
Reception
The game received "unfavorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.
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