The players look good, if not eerily like their real-life counterparts, and the floor, stadiums, and crowds are good even if the game lacks the mind-boggling glitz of EA Sports titles. Technically speaking, the game offers solid Direct3D hardware acceleration. Still, at least eye candy fans won't have to make compromises. Menu screens in ***Inside Drive*** are a snap to navigate. To those people I can do nothing but say that if you're interested in drafting players or playing with friends over the internet, don't buy this title. These design issues may scare away a good number of potential customers from this title. Stuff like career mode and a player editor are non-existent, as is internet/network multiplayer. Fittingly, this pretty much sums up the whole package, as you get very good, detailed on-court action. The developers of Inside Drive have obviously decided to focus on the core gameplay.
Fans of computer basketball who have played incarnations of the NBA Live series may ask why bother? The answer is simple enough: because Inside Drive plays the best basketball ever seen on the PC and it's the first time in years that I have to get a close look at the real deal to tell if there's any difference at all. With serious experience in Microsoft's NBA Inside Drive 2000 under my belt I want to take in some games on TV to see and feel the difference between this game and the real deal. I can't wait till the NBA season gets well under way (just a week hardly counts) for the simple reason that I want to get a clearer picture on how current teams fare.
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