NBA Reside 06 suffers the above fate as endure season's Pistons--it performs able-bodied abundant to get aback to the big dance, but a few key mishaps avant-garde EA's baller home afterwards the crown. So what does it get right? For starters, the new "freestyle superstar" classifications, which accommodate assertive players with poster-worthy moves, in actuality advice differentiate the NBA's finest from the scrubs authoritative the alliance minimum. Also, active one of these maneuvers--whether it be a no-look bowl with Phoenix's Steve Nash or a "get that applesauce outta here" animation with Shaq--is simple. Staying with the on-court action, the alteration bold is abundant improved. Players ample the lanes and abide adjoin the bassinet afterwards accepting the rock, rather than endlessly asleep in their advance like in endure year's game. And finally, Reside is no best the animal duckling of the b-ball association (though it still has a agency to go afore communicable up to NBA 2K6 in the looks department). But like I said, this one has accessory problems. The camera doesn't beat about fast abundant afterwards a change of possession, causing some turnovers and absent fast-break opportunities. Plus, the absolutism mode, slam-dunk contest, and three-point activity accept all basically gone untouched. Read the abounding NBA Reside 2006 0 NBA Reside 2006 Rattles off the rim. , 10/07/2005 at 00:00 The arch activity with this franchise--stars that play like clock-punching journeymen--is history now that the bathe superstars affection brings the game's greats to life. Ben Wallace defends with the application of his real-life counterpart, and Ray Allen in actuality lights it up from above the arc. Bryan's aswell adapted about the alteration game--players go breadth they're declared to on the break. But Bryan complains that endure year's huge addition, the All-Star Weekend, is mostly unchanged--I'd altercate that banausic or not, it still charcoal the best nonsimulation access in any of this season's hoops games. And I'll accomplish a prediction: Next year's Reside will accept a advance stick a la 2K6's. Read the abounding NBA Reside 2006 0 NBA Reside 2006 Rattles off the rim. By Greg Ma, 10/07/2005 at 00:00 Chalk me up as accession fan of the new bathe superstars feature--it's abundant to see Nash, LeBron, Shaq, and the added heavyweights bang-up with their above playmaking, power, and monster dunks. The players attending bigger than they did endure year, too, even down to abstracts like Tim Duncan's pigeon-toed chargeless bandy stance. But is Reside abundant of an advance compared to endure year, and is it annual the a dded banknote over 2K6? Not for this guy--I'd go for 2K6's hardly added counterbalanced yield on hoops. Read the abounding NBA Reside 2006 0