BOOM SHAKA LAKA! JAM Returns!

In the field of video games there's very few sports titles that actually manage to appeal to me. I was unexpectedly swept away by the SSX series and captivated by the early installments of the Blitz series. However one of my earliest and fondest memories of sports games which blurred the reality line was the NBA Jam series.

Featuring real players and real teams in an arcade 2 on 2 setting, Jam brought flavor, action and odd commentator exclamations delivering a very different basketball experience. Sure Jam had a very loose interpretation of the actual rules of basketball, had this game not featured superhumanly awesome flaming dunks or backboard shattering slams, attention to the rules may have been more important.

Today I was fortunate enough to bear witness to the EA Sports revival of this excellent cartridge era game. If the debut trailer is any indication, Jam 2010 will feature the same over-the-top dunking and silly commentating its primitive predecessors had, the update will be a much-needed addition to the Wii's severely lacking game catalog.

Let's just hope the folks at EA don't turn this revival into another endless string of slightly different but overall similar sequels like what's happened to the Call of Duty series...

See the video here: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-debut-nba-jam/63073