![]() ![]() Now you're confined to the square button for initial tricks and the two shoulder buttons for modifying. By moving the stick one of eight directions and pressing the turbo button, your character was capable of pulling off up to 40 moves. All your tricks are accomplished by pressing the square button in Showdown, which is a bit limiting when you compare it to the trick stick in V3 that dedicated the entire right analog stick to fancy move options. In terms of accomplishing tricks, things fall close to the way things worked in NBA Street Volume 2. It's harder to make cuts to shake opponents with the gooey analog nub - the directional pad may be the best way to go. You can move your players around with either the analog nub or the direction pad. When it comes to actually playing the game, things did get a bit watered down for PSP. Showdown is definitely a stylish basketball game. And all of this spills over into the actual gameplay in a graceful way. All the slick and "streety" menus, fonts, and music are here as well, reminding you of the lineage that this game comes from. ![]() Uptown has this cool-looking cage enclosure with visible trees in distance that provide a great sense of depth. Some of the locations you'll hit like Venice Beach and The Cage really push to capture the environments they're based on. The Showdown's player models, color palette, shadows, and life-like animations are impressive feats for the handheld. But that's OK because there's a ton of background detail that's present, more that I expected. The action is fast, clean, and perhaps most importantly, addicting.Īll those rich lighting effects that were accomplished in NBA Street V3 didn't quite make it into Showdown. Seeing behind-the-back passes or a monster dunk in the middle of heated game is still a heart-stopping moment on the small screen. If you have a small amount of time to play your PSP, the mini-games here are ideal. What it misses in terms of scale and features, it makes up for in novel ideas like Shot Blocker, a hot mini-game. As a zany three-on-three arcade hoops game that's all about showboating and beating your opponent in the most unsportsmanlike like way possible, Showdown delivers a solid experience worth playing on PSP.
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