The market is starting to become saturated with basketball games and Microsoft in their quest to take over the world have decided to add their own attempt to the list, courtesy of Australian developers, Beam Software. Spectrum users of old may well remember them, they produced the classic Horace series of games, amongst other titles - indeed, check out their Web site to download free versions for the various Spectrum emulators that are available and indulge yourself in some rather sad nostalgia. More recently they were responsible for EA Cricket (aka Ian Botham's International Cricket) and the updated 97 version. They are also soon to release Killed, Krushed 'n' Destroyed - a real-time strategy game in the mould of Command & Conquer. However, does Full Court Press match up to the then unrivalled gameplay of that early "sports sim" Horace Goes Skiing?
The audio in-game is on the whole good. The commentator is manic, with a range of superlatives and a good variation of tone depending on how exciting the game is at that particular moment. The Sound FX are passable, with the usual little music clips, horns and the squeak of basketball boot on the court. A patch is available, with a choice of the 96 or 97 rosters and a replacement EXE file which fixes a few bugs and adds a new feature or two, the most notable of which being that the basket net "swishes" when the ball goes through it. This makes a big difference to knowing whether you've hit the net or not and thus whether you need to go up for the rebound. I had it crash pre-patch when exiting to the timeout screen occasionally but that hasn't happened since I upgraded. However, the CPU team often gets called for inbound violations, simply because the ball is just lying there at the side of the court - normally when I've switched between full-screen and windowed modes. Occasionally a computer controlled player from my team will face off with an opponent in their half and they will do nothing until the computer team is called for a halfcourt violation. The updated rosters feature updated data, but no pictures or commentary so the player gets called number X by the commentator and has a silhouette. Similarly, presumably for contractual reasons some of the big names like Shaq aren't actually named in the game. Incidentally, reading the back of the NBA Live 97 box EA proudly proclaim that Live 97 has Shaq.
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