Sony Computer Entertainment America has a knack for coming up with interesting twists on conventional basketball.

Unfortunately, that ability doesn't seem to extend to making good basketball games. NBA 07 on the PlayStation Portable had some neat ideas but was a chore to play. That's the case for NBA 08 as well.

There are a dizzying number of ways to play the game of basketball, but that's the catch: You still have to play basketball, which is not one of the game's strengths.

NBA 08's best feature is conquest mode, which returns from last year in improved form. You select an NBA team with the goal of trying to take over every NBA city by defeating its team. If you challenge then defeat a team, you'll control that team and can challenge other nearby cities.

Once a turn, you can even swap players between teams you already control in an effort to fortify a weak team. Taking over the entire map isn't easy because that's the goal for all the other teams in the league as well.

They'll aggressively try to take over your cities, so it's important that you don't water down your squads too much or else you'll be easy prey for an attacking team. If you do manage to fend off an assault, you're awarded your choice of any player on that team.

There are a few other ways to improve your squad this year. You can train players to develop their attributes, improve a city's rating, and even unlock retired greats, such as Karl Malone, if you take over an entire region.

Publisher: SCEA
Developer: SCEA
Genre: Basketball Sim
Store Date: Oct 12, 2007
Region: USA
Language: English
ISO Size: 864 MB
ISO Crc32: 716082CD
Group: pSyPSP
Release Name: NBA_08_USA_PSP-pSyPSP
Filename: psy-n08
Release Date: Oct 2, 2007
UMD Serial: UCUS-98699

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