NBA In The Zone 2000

NBA In The Zone 2000 is a basketball video game released for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, and Game Boy Color in 2000.

NBA In The Zone 2000
Developer(s)Konami
Publisher(s)Konami
SeriesNBA in the Zone 
Platform(s)Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Game Boy Color
Release
  • JP: January 27, 2000 (PS)
  • NA: February 18, 2000
  • EU: May 2000
Game Boy Color
  • NA: April 27, 2000
  • EU: September 29, 2000
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

Gameplay

Players can play as any of the 29 NBA teams which feature more than 300 actual players in motion-captured animation, featuring play-by-play from NBA announcer Red Clay, and standard gameplay modes like Exhibition, Season, and Playoffs, a Slam Dunk Contest and Three-Point Shootout.

Reception

The Nintendo 64 and PlayStation versions received unfavorable reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[1][2] Electronic Gaming Monthly, Game Informer, GameFan and Nintendo Power gave the game mixed reviews, months before the game was released Stateside.[3][4][6][7][8][15] Rob Smolka of NextGen called the same N64 version "a travesty of a basketball game" that "manages to eke out a score of one star only because our rating system doesn't go any lower."[14] In Japan, where the PlayStation version was released first under the name of NBA Power Dunkers 5 (NBAパワーダンカーズ5, NBA Pawā Dankāzu 5) on January 27, 2000, Famitsu gave it a score of 27 out of 40.[5]

Notes
  1. In Electronic Gaming Monthly's early review of the PlayStation version, one critic gave it 5/10, two others gave it each a score of 5.5/10, and another gave it 6/10.
  2. In GameFan's early viewpoint of the Nintendo 64 version, one critic gave it 70, and the other 60.

References
  1. "NBA In The Zone 2000 for Nintendo 64". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on December 9, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  2. "NBA In The Zone 2000 for PlayStation". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on December 9, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  3. "NBA: In The Zone 2000 [sic] (N64)". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 126. Ziff Davis. January 2000. p. 227. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  4. Hager, Dean; Ricciardi, John; Leahy, Dan; Zuniga, Todd (January 2000). "NBA: In The Zone 2000 [sic] (PS)". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 126. Ziff Davis. p. 229. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  5. "NBAパワーダンカーズ5 [PS]". Famitsu (in Japanese). Enterbrain. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  6. Helgeson, Matt (January 2000). "NBA In The Zone 2000 - Nintendo 64". Game Informer. No. 81. FuncoLand. Archived from the original on October 27, 2000. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  7. Helgeson, Matt (January 2000). "NBA In The Zone 2000 (PS)". Game Informer. No. 81. FuncoLand. Archived from the original on May 23, 2000. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  8. Higgins, Geoff "El Nino"; Rodriguez, Tyrone "Cerberus" (January 2000). "NBA In the Zone 2000 (N64)". GameFan. Vol. 8 no. 1. Shinno Media. p. 89. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
  9. Buchanan, Levi (February 25, 2000). "REVIEW for NBA In the Zone 2000 (N64)". GameFan. Shinno Media. Archived from the original on June 18, 2000. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
  10. Harris, Craig (April 28, 2000). "NBA In the Zone 2000 (GBC)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  11. Boulding, Aaron (February 29, 2000). "NBA In The Zone 2000 (N64)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  12. Zdyrko, David (February 18, 2000). "NBA In The Zone 2000 (PS)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  13. Maddrell, Alan (August 2000). "NBA In The Zone 2000". N64 Magazine. No. 44. Future Publishing. pp. 62–65.
  14. Smolka, Rob (February 2000). "[NBA] In the Zone 2000 (N64)". NextGen. No. 62. Imagine Media. p. 94. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  15. "NBA In The Zone 2000". Nintendo Power. Vol. 127. Nintendo of America. December 1999. p. 162. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  16. Wilton, Pete (May 2000). "NBA In The Zone 2000". Official UK PlayStation Magazine. No. 58. Future Publishing. p. 128. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  17. "Review: NBA In The Zone 2000". PSM. No. 30. Imagine Media. February 2000.


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