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Old 11-16-2009, 12:18 PM   #1
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NBA Unrivaled (DLC) Review

If last year’s disappointing Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff was not evidence enough, NBA Unrivaled should help confirm what Tecmo fans have been angrily realizing for the last decade: The company has no idea how to update its classic sports franchises for modern consoles.

In Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff there were too few updates to the dated portions of the game's old-school formula. In NBA Unrivaled the developers not only ignored the existing flaws in the source material, but also eliminated the strengths that made Tecmo NBA Basketball an 8-bit/16-bit legend.

NBA Unrivaled has been removed from its simulation roots and turned into the equivalent of a low-budget, Saturday-morning cartoon.

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Old 11-16-2009, 01:21 PM   #2
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I don't get how Tecmo can mess these games up so badly. Tecmo Bowl Kickoff was without question the most disappointing game of 2008. Seriously, how do you mess that game up? Why they took away all the fun elements from Tecmo Super Bowl, I'll never know. They also made the CPU laughable; in the original the season became more challenging as you advanced. In Kickoff, you could win any game 100-0.

Tecmo Basketball, as mentioned in this review, brought some innovative things to the table. I don't get why they'd scrap all that and make it some garbage arcade-fest.
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My buddy was telling me you'd have to be ******** to download this game. Looks like this review is pretty much saying the same thing.
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It's a turd wrapped in a dead skunk. But somehow it's worse than I described.
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Old 11-16-2009, 04:18 PM   #6
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Re: NBA Unrivaled (DLC) Review

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It's a turd wrapped in a dead skunk.
Brutal.
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Old 11-16-2009, 05:20 PM   #7
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Well, if it's that bad, then praise the Lord it's not available in Australia.
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