Actually, I had bought this game in 2003. This is the second
time I bougt it. Why? Because it's just so much fun, and the
old one was worn out because I played it too much.
Recommend it to anyone. Eventhough it's an old game.

Can't play it without the game pad, so I could't play it yet.

There are some ups and some downs of nba live of 2004. First of all, when you take the ball upcourt, you are sometimes met by a player and you can not get around them. You always have to pass it to another player. Second of all, you can never pick it off when the other team passes it in. You can be standing right in front of the player the ball is going to and you can press and press the steal button to no effect. The upside to the game is the awesome dunking. I'm glad to see that someone at EA Sports knows what it takes to make people buy their products. One last thing: One thing that pisses me off is that when you throw an alley-oop pass, when the player that is supposed to be dunking it is guarded, he always misses the dunk. I have to yell out loud when that happens. Overall, it's a pretty good game.

nba live 04 is a great game. the gameplay is cool, but sometimes its hard to get your guys to run plays because they get stuck when another guy is in their way, and cant run around him for whatever reason. and also in dynasty mode you can sign top free agents after training camp b/c no one would sign em in the real free agency period. and some average guys just stay there forever.
sometimes i spend the whole day in (in the summertime)playin live. superstar level is easy though. the intentional foul is cool too all u have to do is press the playcalling button in pc.

It is a fun game but the game is programmed VERY VERY VERY rough. It seems they rushed the game into release or something. Graphics aren't even close to acceptable. Player faces are very vague, it literally looks like a fat dou being pinched into a human face. While the game play is barely acceptable but you can shoot 3s inside 3 pt line, you can shoot a ball behind board when it is physically impossible. In general, only a playable game. I have never been a EA sports game fan anyway. Most of them sucked. For basketball, I recommend 2002 or 2003 NBA LIVE for XBOX. In my opinion, they are more like real life basketball.