This is such a boring game to talk about, that the most interesting thing I can point out is that this game kept the name “In the Zone” in PAL regions. Previous games were renamed as “NBA Pro”.

But, apart from that, this is an update of a clunky, average sports game that does nothing new. Everything moves in a strange way, and the “next player” is never who you expect or want to be selected while defending. There are far better basketball games.

Fine

Basketball is a tricky beast, but it also sells by the bucketload, so Konami will continue to flog this particular horse as far into the future as we can see. Realism is fine and dandy, but sports sims have to be good, simple fun before they can start to crawl their way out of the doldrums and into serious gamesplayers’ collections. Flick forward to Martin’s Kobe Bryan 2 review on the following pages to see how this can be done.

Alan Maddrell, N64 Magazine #44. Review Score: 69%

Remake or remaster?

There are better basketball games.

Official ways to get the game.

There’s no official way to get NBA In the Zone 2000