NBA Street Homecourt (Playstation 3, 2007)

Having played and own the NBA Street series, I was happy to see that Homecourt was not just another Street game like V3. The previous version was just a poor excuse for people to buy another game without making any significant changes to improve the game.

Homecourt on the other hand, took advantage of PS3's hardware - the graphics in HD look amazing without being sluggish. The control takes some time to get use to but the variety of tricks and the cool dunks are excellent. It also improve the Gamebreaker feature to make it more challenging, you can now even steal the ball from your opponent and score your own Gamebreaker instead. Comparing to previously where you are almost hopeless against your opponent's Gamebreaker, it encourages people to play more D.

While the different game modes are fun, sometimes the purpose of different modes aren't as clear that you have to play a couple times to understand the goal. As far as creating your own Baller, in Homecourt, unfortunately you have to settle for finding 2 NBA players that look like you and find something in between. So I guess if you often look in the mirror and thought you look like the child of Steve Nash and Ron Artest, you will be satisfy with the feature. However, if you are Asian, or unique looking, then you are out of luck if you want to create a character that actually look like you. Not that I am racist towards Asians (I am one myself), but hundreds faces to choose one, and only 1 Yao Ming...not exactly fair in my opinion. But it is just a game, so no need to read too much into that.

So far there aren't that many games worth owning for PS3, but this is a game that is worth your time and should not disappoint you. If you already paid the big bucks for a PS3, then you might as well get this game and be entertained =)