If you've played one, you've played them all...

Next game up on the list, is NBA Ballers: Chosen One. I am a fan of the old NBA Jam, and NBA Street games, so it drove me to wanting to rent this game and check it out. After playing a couple quick games and getting used to the controls, I feel the need to start the "Story Mode" of the game.

Starting out is a type of NBA Inside Stuff TV set, where some guy sets up the whole "Chosen One" theme. He gives brief talks about absolutely nothing before different chapters of the game. The idea is that you start off as a nobody, and look to build up street cred, and to hopefully make it into the NBA. So I started off playing a variety of different chanllenges in the different areas of the story mode. There are some interesting games that vary from 1-on-1, 2-on-2, or even 3-on-3 games, that have unique rules (slam dunks only, no fouls, etc.). This is fun at first, but after playing it for awhile, gets really boring and monotanous.

They really make the point that NBA players are like greek Gods walking around everyone else. Every time when playing on a new court, there is a huge entrance video of that courts star NBA player (usually the boss of that level). Whenever they come out to the court, the crowd goes nuts, and it shows them at like 80 different angle to make sure you know who the crowd is reacting too. I find it funny that the crowd always makes a big deal about who it is, regardless of who is in the crowd. Example, Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, and Dwight Howard are in the crowd hanging out, then Joe Johnson makes an entrance via the helicopter pad right outside, and comes to the court with a posse and everyone goes nuts.

I know that is a minor detail, and it doesn't affect the gameplay, it just adds to the feeling that the game really doesn't have a "storyline" at all. Your character never talks, nobody ever talks to him, nothing happens off the court. This makes it prety hard to develop any time of "story", it's just pointless games, one after the other. So if you like these types of NBA Jame type games, I would reccomend renting this, definately not buying it.