Is it a bird? No! Is it a plane? No! It's yet another basketball game with an NBA licence...
Gideon Kibblewhite

Hang on a minute. You mean NBA Basketball 2000, don't you?
No - not at all, mate. This is another game: NBA Live 2000.

Surely we don't need any more basketball sims with NBA licences - they're two a penny at the moment.
Quite. Many might argue that it's a very overcrowded genre already, and basketball isn't even that popular this side of the pond. NBA Golf, or NBA Snooker even... now at least that would be a little bit more imaginative.

Does NBA Live add anything to basketball on the PlayStation?
You're hard-pushed to say that it does, really. A competent effort, it does what it says on the tin but offers little that's startling. It has a broadcast-style presentation, a facility that allows players to go 'upstairs' and put their own team together and, back on the court, you can also try out your buzzer-beating skills in a Scenarios mode. You can also take a step back in time and play the greatest players basketball has known in its Legends of the Game mode, where there are five different all-stars teams to play with, dating from the '50s to the present day.

It doesn't sound short of options.
It isn't. In addition, you can challenge your favourite NBA players to a game of street ball on an outdoor court. Classic player match-ups are endless: Duncan vs Jordan, for instance...