Sega Sports: NCAA College Basketball 2K3

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• PS2

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• ASIN: B000070IVE
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 3, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,806 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #33 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Sports > Basketball

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Amazon.com Product Description

From the opening tip-off of Midnight Madness to the net cutting in New Orleans, NCAA College Basketball 2K3 delivers the complete college hoops experience. Every Division I school is here, represented with energetic cheerleaders, rabid student sections, and spirited bands swaying in the stands, all adding to the madness of college hoops. Take the reigns of your favorite Division I program and build a modern-day dynasty in legacy mode, as you recruit the best crop of young talent throughout the nation. Train your squad to run team-oriented motion offenses, overpower your opponents with high-post plays, and antagonize teams with aggressive full-court presses. You call all the shots, from who’s going to redshirt to what kind of zone press your squad runs. Guide your team through an entire season--tune up with tough preseason matchups in preparation for heated conference play where every game counts. Weekly Top 25 and Rating Percentage Index (RPI) rankings track your progress over the course of the season, including a bubble watch as tourney time draws near.

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61 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE college experience, November 21, 2002

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Timothy Andrew Lewis (STL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sega Sports NCAA College Basketball 2K3 (Video Game)

I just want to start off and make it clear I have extensively researched both this title and EA's March Madness 2003, released two weeks before. For those looking for an intense, full college atmosphere, look no further. I have talked to and read conversations from people who have played both games and I can realistically say this is a MUST have game.
Not only will you be stunned by the amount of individual courts and individual arenas in this game, but you will literally be stunned by the 300+ Division 1-A teams in such a fine game. Run Loyola Marymount against Drake, and get a fine game while you do it.
This is way much more of a simulation than MM 2003, so if you want to take one guy and try to breakdown an entire team, you may have some success, but you'll get blown out if you play anyone good. This game is around team concept, and using screens, motion, and playing good defense. Throw a full court press at them to generate more turnovers, or play a good solid zone to force them into bad shots. It's real college basketball. There's no 142-131 games or 35 dunks, rather there are EXTENSIVE amounts of layup animations and realistic dunk animations. A 6'0" guy from the WAC won't run in and hammer down a reverse, rather he'll move the ball around and toss in a pretty reverse. Still, big time players will throw down big time dunks. Don't think there aren't fast breaks or this game will play slow, rather it will be very fast paced fitting the college style, yet team play will be what gets you to win.
Right when you start up the game, you can have the game randomly generate names for every player in the game from its name database, and then you can go in and edit the ones you know. That way, the broadcasters will call out every, single players name and give you the licensed ESPN broadcast that you will become awed at.
The Dynasty mode is exactly what a college BBall fan could ask for. Take the school of your choice and run their operations for a length of time. Recruiting is outstanding, and there are even High School All Star Games (6 of them) so that you can actually play with the people you will want to recruit. Revolutionary. If you would rather run a first person dynasty, you can create a coach and edit his styles and find a job and move him up through the ranks to creating his own program at any school.
Wanna have a dynasty with multiple players? You can. At least 4 can have teams in a dynasty, so you and your friends can take your teams into years of play and trade off who is better, etc... That alone will be worth buying this game. Online play? It's included.
The pure amount of features in this game combined with the fast-paced, yet team oriented game play will make you missing something if you don't add this game to your collection. I really believe this could compete for Sports Game of 2002 and even the first half of 2003.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now THIS is NCAA College Basketball!, December 7, 2002

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James Nelson (Apple Valley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sega Sports NCAA College Basketball 2K3 (Video Game)

I wrote a review for NCAA March Madness 2003 from EA Sports, and it is a dumb game. But when ya get your hands on Sega Sports' NCAA College Basketball 2K3, you're headin' straight to the no. 1 company that brought us Virtua Fighter, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc.

Let's get to the best parts. My favorite part is the engine that plays just like NBA 2K3. It's at its best in Simulation Sports. Sweet moves and dunks really shine in this department. The interaction with the players and the crowd is more sweeter. The coaches also look real.

The intros before the game are realistic and accurate with the announcer saying their names and the coach's names too.

The graphics are 100% better. You get different stadiums with names, while NCAA March Madness 2003 has 3 measly stadiums. The arena floors are beautiful! Also, you get cheerleaders too. That's another plus. The jerseys on the players are lookin' good!

The sound is marvelous, like you hear the crowd cheering for your home team, and they put up the name of the school with every shot you make for your home team. The commentators in this game are like Steele and West in NBA 2K3; for they are better than Dick and Brad in NCAA MM. They call your names, too! I love that feature! The fight songs are cool.

The game modes are great. You got Exhibition mode, Tournament mode, Online mode, Practice mode, etc. Gym Rat is like Street Ball in NBA 2K3, but you play in a gym of the home team. Excellent for honing your skills. Legacy mode is what it shines, and for a good reason: You can import your graduates at the end of every season into the NBA 2K3 game! You heard right, folks! You can import them into NBA 2K3! Now that's what makes this game better than March Madness, and it's "BEYOND AWESOME, BABY!"

My final word: Get this game if you decide between NCAA March Madness 2003 and NCAA 2K3. One answer you'll say is get NCAA 2K3. Looks like EA Sports "Can't buy a bucket" with what they missed.

I have a new slogan for Sega Sports...

"Sega Sports: It's REALLY in the game...for real!"

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stadiums - Pure BBall Sim, December 18, 2002

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warner98 (AZ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sega Sports NCAA College Basketball 2K3 (Video Game)

This game is just like college basketball - scoring is much harder than the pros. Forget the EA series of basketball games, where scoring is easy and everyone has nonexistent defense. In this game, the defense sticks to you like glue and the only way to score is to run plays and pass around the ball. After every basket you score, you'll celebrate!

There are 300 (that's right) . . . 300 teams in this game, and each one has its own specific (real) arena. Even the structure of the seats around the court is unique to each arena. You can see in the dome stadiums (like the Syracuse Carrier Dome) where the extra seats were added to convert the stadium to basketball. The players don't look exceptionally lifelike, but the stadiums more than make up for it.

The only knock on the game is that the plays are sort of complex and are hard to follow. It has a scrimmage mode that runs through the plays, but it's pretty confusing. Even if you don't know where the players are supposed to move, the plays will probably open up chances to score anyway.
In summary, this game is almost a pure basketball sim and I rate it highly in light of its few flaws.

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