NBA ShootOut '97

NBA ShootOut '97 is a sports video game developed by SCE Studios Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation.

NBA ShootOut '97
Developer(s)SCE Studios Soho
Publisher(s)Sony Computer Entertainment
Programmer(s)Ben Fawcett
Chris Emsen
John Conners
Paul Nath
Artist(s)Antonia Blackler
Mario Allen
Simon Fenton
Composer(s)Richard Joseph
Jason Page
SeriesNBA ShootOut
Platform(s)PlayStation
Release
  • EU: March 1997
  • NA: 14 March 1997
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

NBA ShootOut '97 is a basketball simulation video game based on the 1996/97 NBA season.[1]

Reception

NBA ShootOut '97 was well received, with the Official UK PlayStation Magazine awarding 9/10 and a Starplayer award. They praised the motion capture and the playability.[2] Most critics hailed NBA ShootOut '97 as a dramatic improvement over the original. Kraig Kujawa and Dean Hager of Electronic Gaming Monthly praised the faster game speed and new icon passing system. Both gave it a 9 out of 10.[3] Kujawa wrote a longer review of the game for GameSpot, in which he additionally complimented the authentic NBA sounds and visuals and criticized the small play book. Despite similar comments, his score changed to 7.9 out of 10.[4] GamePro's Johnny Ballgame gave it a 3.5 out of 5 in sound and a perfect 5.0 in every other category (graphics, control, and funfactor), saying that it "shakes up the basketball world, cooking the court with spectacular, slam-dunkin' gameplay and the most realistic five-on-five hoops action ever brought to the 32-bit arena." Like Kujawa and Hager, he highly approved of the icon passing system.[5] A Next Generation critic called the game "the first true basketball simulation for a console", elaborating that unlike previous basketball video games, the statistics have a significant impact on how players perform in actual gameplay. He also commented positively on the icon passing, but said the game was not as fun as NBA in the Zone 2 due to the controls, explaining that "the game has an almost clinical feel, almost as if the player isn't really affecting the outcome of plays." He gave it four out of five stars.[1]

References
  1. "Hoopla". Next Generation. No. 30. Imagine Media. June 1997. p. 114.
  2. Total NBA '97 review, Official UK PlayStation Magazine, Future Publishing issue 19, October 1997
  3. "Team EGM Sports: NBA Shoot Out '97". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 93. Ziff Davis. April 1997. p. 114.
  4. Kujawa, Kraig (March 18, 1997). "NBA Shootout '97 Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  5. "NBA Shootout '97 Sets the Court on Fire". GamePro. No. 104. IDG. May 1997. p. 100.
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