Freestyle Street Basketball

 

Free Style Street Basketball

From JC Entertainment:

The World’s First Online Street Basketball Game, FreeStyle! FreeStyle is the world’s first street based online basketball game. Experience the street style basketball moves and motions you haven’t been able to see in other similar basketball games. Enjoy the Groove of Hip-Hop and Street Basketball in FreeStyle! Throw away the uniform and come to the playground for some street basketball fun! FreeStyle is All About ??Freedom?? and ??Youth??! The world of FreeStyle is designed to represent ??Freedom?? and ??Youth??. Experience the unique fashion of players, graffiti on the courts and youngsters dancing on the beat of hip-hop music.

Anyone that has played an MMO (massively multiplayer online) game knows the death knell is the lag. If the game is tied to coordinated efforts with other gamers, lag can have horrible repercussions. Consider what happens when that is tied to a sports game, and one in which team play is a guiding element within the game.

(And please, don’t try to say the host machine is not good enough – it more than exceeds the game specs – or the connection is not strong enough – a 7-meg connection that is shared by another machine and the connection does not drop on that other machine when the game disconnects – because those are not relevant to the problems outlined here.)

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Freestyle Street Basketball

That is one of the hurdles that Freestyle Street Basketball still must overcome if it wants to attract a broad player base. As it is, the game itself can be entertaining, but with lag issues and the occasional game disconnect (the game just dumps back to Windows), the game can be frustrating. Why? Consider that you see a steal on the screen and instead of having to work the ball back outside in the half-court game, you are lining up for a restart (which occurs after points have been scored) … or a shot that is wide open and is blocked out of nowhere … or having the ball stolen from you from another player that is five feet away from your ballhandler. Those are the downsides to the JCE/Sierra title. But there are upsides as well. But to that in a moment …

First, the game is about skill, knowing your position and using your position’s strengths to their fullest advantage in concert with other players. A center heading outside the arc to throw up three-pointers is like a guard playing inside and thinking they are going to be a dominating rebounder – it’s not going to happen very often. If you get on a team that knows how to play positions, it can be a thing of joy – even when you lose.