2002 basketball video game
2002 video game
NBA 2K3 is a 2002sports video game developed byVisual Concepts and published bySega forGameCube ,PlayStation 2 andXbox .
It was the first of three consecutiveNBA 2K games to be produced with licensing fromESPN (however, the ESPN logo would not appear on the front cover untilthe series' next installment ). The ESPN licensing coincided with its, and sister networkABC's , takeover of the national broadcast TV rights fromNBC that occurred at the start of the 2002–03 season.It was also the last NBA 2K game to be released on a Nintendo platform until NBA 2K10.
The game received "favorable" reviews on all platforms according to video gamereview aggregator Metacritic .[ 23] [ 24] [ 22] It was nominated forGameSpot ' s annual "Best Traditional Sports Game on GameCube" award, but lost toNFL 2K3 .[ 25]
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