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Post by [D619S-Arrow] on Feb 18, 2005 7:08:45 GMT -5
A bullet-paced, three-on-three arcade hoops game where the more you humiliate your opponent by throwing the ball off his head the better, V3 is by far the best game in the Street series, improving the game's control and intuitiveness, while also adding everything from a dunk contest to an extended Street Challenge mode. The first thing you'll notice, however, are the game's changed controls. The right analog stick is now The Trick Stick. Press the stick in one of eight directions while simultaneously holding down one of the turbo buttons, and you have up to 40 moves at your disposal. Cartwheels, spins, dribbling the ball between the defender's legs, all finally mapped to specific button combinations and directional movements.
The thing is, the game seems like it was made for the PS2 controller, as you can use the four shoulder buttons for turbo, rather than the configurations for the Xbox and GameCube that are a lot less natural. Clicking the left stick for turbo while flicking the right stick for a trick just isn't a good option, especially when I see my PS2 controller sitting on my desk. On the plus side, you can now actually enter the Trick Book and change the name of each trick. So if every time you throw the ball off your opponent's face you'd rather see "Give me Head" than "Off the Heezay" the choice is yours, even if you're stuck with one of the controllers that makes it more difficult to perform.
And while you're pulling off tricks, you'll even be able to string a variety of moves together in combos, linking the Heezay and Bootay to the spin and cartwheel to give you a four-move combo. The exact button and stick movements even appear at the top of the screen to show you exactly what you pressed to pull off each trick. And these combos are important for a couple of reasons. The thing is, there are actually three variations of every trick in the game, and by pulling off a specific move in a combo, you'll also proceed to unlock a variation of that move in the Trick Book that you can then go in and activate for your next game. There are 120 possible variations in V3, and you can select which 40 you want mapped for all NBA players, legends, and Street characters individually.
'An Ing.com update'
The thing is, the game seems like it was made for the PS2 controller, as you can use the four shoulder buttons for turbo, rather than the configurations for the Xbox and GameCube that are a lot less natural. Clicking the left stick for turbo while flicking the right stick for a trick just isn't a good option, especially when I see my PS2 controller sitting on my desk. On the plus side, you can now actually enter the Trick Book and change the name of each trick. So if every time you throw the ball off your opponent's face you'd rather see "Give me Head" than "Off the Heezay" the choice is yours, even if you're stuck with one of the controllers that makes it more difficult to perform.
And while you're pulling off tricks, you'll even be able to string a variety of moves together in combos, linking the Heezay and Bootay to the spin and cartwheel to give you a four-move combo. The exact button and stick movements even appear at the top of the screen to show you exactly what you pressed to pull off each trick. And these combos are important for a couple of reasons. The thing is, there are actually three variations of every trick in the game, and by pulling off a specific move in a combo, you'll also proceed to unlock a variation of that move in the Trick Book that you can then go in and activate for your next game. There are 120 possible variations in V3, and you can select which 40 you want mapped for all NBA players, legends, and Street characters individually.
'An Ing.com update'
