Description
NBA Live 97 is the third installment of the NBA Live video games series. The cover features Mitch Richmond of the Sacramento Kings. The game was developed by EA Sports and released on November 1, 1996. The MS-DOS, Sega Saturn and PlayStation versions featured polygonal models for the on-court players, thus marking it as the first 3D EA Sports Basketball sequel for the series. It was also the first NBA Live released for the Sega Saturn. The game received mostly positive reviews for its advanced graphics and wide array of available moves and plays, though the Saturn conversion was reviled for numerous technical deficiencies. NBA Live 97 is followed by NBA Live 98.
Player animations were created using motion capture, with Sacramento Kings players Mitch Richmond and Tyus Edney among the motion capture actors. Audio commentary is provided by Al Murdoch and Ernie Johnson Jr.
Producer Tarrnie Williams Jr. (son of Tarrnie Williams Sr.) explained the switch from sprites to polygonal models for the players:
With sprites, you're limited to prerendered animations, right? You're limited to the number of directions you choose, the number of frames you have for each animation, and, of course, because you're limited to the amount of RAM you have on the system, you're not really able to do all the things you want. Now, when you move on to the rendered-on-the-fly guys, once you put the models in, you then have to apply the motion data to them. Now, again, you're limited to the set of motion data you can have; but, first of all, they run at 30 frames per second. Second, you're not limited to eight directions. You have infinite directions; they can point in any direction. Plus, it's enabled us to make our cameras freer. We've got an overhead camera for some of our replay stuff that looks straight down. With sprites, if you look straight down at them, it's like looking straight down at a piece of paper.
System Requirements
OS: MS-DOS 5.0
CPU: Intel Pentium
RAM: 16 MB
Hard disk: 1.2 GB
GPU: SuperVGA, VESA
Screenshots
Repack Notes
- The game runs with DOSBox v0.74-3
Install, run, play
Download (800MB)
https://ouo .io/tZ8Ob5 (remove the space before .io)
SHA256
NBA_Live_97_Repack.rar - 56B681B8394F815E9F56DC67C8E8C5650D258124BDF1D6439984F014CBE1ED99
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