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NBA Ballers: Chosen One

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NBA Ballers: Chosen One
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4.5 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: Midway

Developer: Midway

Genre(s): Sports, Basketball

Players: 4

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: April 21, 2008

Summary

NBA Ballers: Chosen One is a fantasy basketball entertainment experience featuring one-on-one and two-on-two action with the NBA's elite players. More than 65 of the NBA's top superstar athletes come to life as the NBA Ballers franchise continues its legacy. NBA Ballers: Chosen One puts players up-close and into the action with new "action movie" style game cameras that highlight every move. Create-a-Baller and take on the challenge of the epic "Chosen One Tournament", brought to you live from the most exotic courts around the world. As you progress through the game, earn the right to use an NBA star's "Shut 'Em Down" Super Move or take your Baller online to test your playing skills against others. [Midway]

What The Critics Said

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71

Games Master UK

Some of the fun of old wacky b-ball games has been replaced by what's perceived as cool. [June 2008, p.72]

70

X360 Magazine UK

Despite some flaws, Chosen One is immensely fun and brings a wider audience to the delights of shooting hoops. [Issue#32, p.84]

70

GameTap

NBA Ballers: Chosen One is a battle game. Think Street Fighter meets the NBA, and that's where the game is in its element.

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70

Official Xbox Magazine

So yeah, Chosen One has its woes, but gameplay is what’s always made this series fun. If you’ve got some tolerance and some RTFM time, Chosen One will deliver.

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70

Official Xbox Magazine UK

A treat for fans and better than "NBA Street." [June 2008, p.66]

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68

Game Informer

Chosen One offers a decent arcade basketball experience, but its short single player and weak online options ultimately keep it from unseating the current street champ, "NBA Street Homecourt."

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68

Console Monster

A half-decent title.Midway have brought in a few interesting ideas to spice up street basketballand whilst a few of the ideas work, a lot of them let the game down.

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67

GameShark

Street basketball is all about over the top game play. However, it’s more fun when you feel like you’re making those moves, instead of watching it unfold on the screen with minimal interaction.

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65

PTGamers

NBA Ballers: Chosen One lacks better production values. Career mode is short, combos should be more varied, and some objectives don't make sense.

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65

Game Chronicles

Compared to the likes of NBA Street or the highly underrated Street Hoops, NBA Ballers: Chosen One seems sluggish and contrived.

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65

MS Xbox World

NBA Ballers: Chosen One has some enjoyment if you play in short sessions.

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65

MEGamers

We do applaud Midway for trying to do something new here, but the repetitive nature of the gameplay, complicated controls and most importantly the clip played over and over again during game time really kills off any chance of this game competing with Home court.

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64

Cheat Code Central

A game that focuses on its themes rather than gameplay or functionality. The theme is definitely the building of your "baller" status, though the process of doing so is sometimes nonsensical given the rule system and gameplay mechanics.

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64

Xbox360Achievements

As far as street or arcade-style basketball games go, this is a far cry from what you'd expect. Taking too many strides towards "legitimate" basketball loses all of the charm, and frankly the fun-factor, that we've come to expect from this genre.

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60

Gameplanet

In one word: mediocre.

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60

GamePro

The core gameplay is great--the counters are brilliant and the energy stays high--yet it isn't enough to be chosen as more than a casual distraction.

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60

IGN

Delivers more of the same gameplay from the Xbox version, but with new additions that do nothing but hurt the overall formula.

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60

GameSpy

While Ballers hits from long-range with pretty graphics and plenty of Cribz-esque intros and unique elements, it clangs off the rim a bit with its Chosen One storyline execution.

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60

DailyGame

NBA Ballers: Chosen One tries to do too many things at once, never really succeeded at any of them.

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60

ZTGameDomain

The multi-player is still addictive and beefing up your baller is simple enough for anyone to enjoy, but the problems float a bit too close to the surface for fans of the genre to ignore.

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60

GameZone

NBA: Ballers: Chosen One has all the right stars but when it comes to the game, it lacks the stylish action that made this series such a blast to play.

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60

GameDaily

Midway didn't update its roster (Jason Kidd plays for Dallas, not New Jersey), the story mode (what there is of it) makes no sense and the artificial intelligence is quite boneheaded.

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60

DarkStation

A trip back to the drawing board would probably be the best bet for the developers as this is a game that has some good intentions but not great execution.

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58

Xbox World 360 Magazine UK

Play basketball on half a court while Chuck D disses your sister. Nope. [June 2008, p.79]

58

Worth Playing

NBA Ballers: Chosen One is a title that has solid basics in place, but it really needed a lot more time and budget to get everything just right. As it stands, the title is a buggy, unpolished mess with easy-to-use, overpowered moves and gameplay that is often more frustrating than it is fun.

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55

PALGN

An abundance of cheap tactics and bland gameplay make this one title that will forever be warming the bench.

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55

GameSpot

There's no reason to pick this one up, regardless of how bad you need a basketball fix--there are plenty of cheaper, better options available.

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51

Planet Xbox 360

NBA Ballers is a scatterbrained game that never decides quite what it is, and at no point resembles anything good. The game is only impressive in just how badly they miss the mark.

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50

Eurogamer

It's not NBA Live, it's not NBA Street and it's not NBA 2K. And playing Chosen One you'll be reminded of this every couple of minutes.

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50

Xbox World Australia

Chosen One is a decent enough romp for a couple of nights play, however it's hard imagine you'd invest any more time than that. It fails to exceed the fun factor, and overall quality, of similar games to come before it.

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50

Thunderbolt

This is one for the hardcore basketball fans only, as they are likely to enjoy the short-burst addictive action it has to offer. With that said, don’t expect to find any challenge here.

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50

Team Xbox

The graphics look cleaner, but more artificial. The create-a-player is functional, but nothing spectacular. Character development looks good on paper, but not in practice. The addition of combo minigames is interesting, but takes away more than it adds.

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45

Gamer's Hell

Nearly an identical, less-than-stellar experience on the PS3 or 360 (save for knowing what you unlock after each episode on the PS3), NBA Ballers: Chosen One feels like a step back for the arcade genre.

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40

G4 TV

If you don’t care too much about precise game play, Chosen One is a good, brainless time. Otherwise, the game just becomes infuriating.

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40

Giant Bomb

NBA Ballers: Chosen One feels like a relic, like an old arcade game that’s been given a fresh coat of paint, but no additional gameplay depth. Like an old arcade game, it’s fun for awhile, but unless you have nostalgic feelings for, well, the other two Ballers games, you’ll probably get fed up fast.

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40

Level7.nu

NBA Ballers: Chosen one is a game all about super dunks, slick moves and fancy dribbles. Unfortunately Midway has missed out on one essential ingredient necessary in all great sports games: getting the player interested. With bleak graphics and shoddy controls, not even playing with a friend can help this game from being utterly mediocre.

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40

Totally360

We're not saying it's disastrous, but it is so lacklustre, so tepid, so unrefined and unbalanced that it can not be recommended as anything other than a sub £10 purchase.

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36

Electronic Gaming Monthly

This latest NBA Ballers seems to have been built in a vacuum. [June 2008, p.79]

33

Gaming Age

In the case of NBA Ballers: The Chosen One, not only is concept stale, but some of the new features hurt the game more than help push it to the next level.

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33

1UP

The real shock is that, nearly 14 months later, Chosen One doesn't live up to the tech, the style, or the ambition of EA's "Homecourt." The game has far too many flaws -- and far too little polish and juice to make it worth playing.

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30

Gamervision

Ballers is just too glitchy, ugly and frustrating to be worth even a rental.

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16

Game Revolution

I could go on for much longer, pointing out the weightless feel of your player, the cheap and featureless last-gen graphics, the repetitive and unimaginative play-by-play banter, the purposeless customization options or the usually desolate and ultimately just as crappy online multiplayer. But that would be treating the game as if it had tried, when it’s apparent that this baller was looking to ball the pooch all along.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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