The exhibition games are good for practice, or just a quick game, as they don't count towards league standings. After the introduction (which is skipable) you'll find yourself at the main menu, where you can set-up what type of game to play, either an exhibition match, play games during a season or start up a new playoff series. The music here is first rate, as it is right through the entire game, more on this later. The game begins with a very nice full motion video of some nice plays made by real live NBA players, as well as all the NBA teams logos flashing by. If you have 8 meg and know how to manage your memory, as most gamers have had to learn, you'll have no problems. One thing though, you MUST have 8 meg of ram, and use a clean boot to get the needed amount of XMS memory (7,104k). The whole thing took only minutes to install, and it works fine with my compressed hard disk, so no problems here. It had no problems at all finding my sound card and identifying my type of video card, and it conveniently lets you test the sound and video before it saves the information. The install program is very slick, with crisp SVGA screens giving a taste of things to come. The game comes on one CD-Rom, and requires at least 3 meg of hard drive space, and 15 meg for the recommended installation, which makes for smoother game play. It promises true 5 on 5 play, an NBA license, authentic rules, SVGA graphics, digital sound, full motion video and tons more. Now NBA Live '95 hits the scene, and it looks like the runaway favorite for the title of best basketball game on the PC. Only a few are currently available, some of the best actually being text based games as the various graphic attempts at the game have fallen short on almost every try. EA Sports is looking to clinch the Championship of basketball games, which is not that hard to do given the lack of decent hoops games for the PC.
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