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Classic NBA arcade action is back! Take your “A” game to the playground and beat the best in high-flying 2-on-2 basketball action. Practice your skills offline, play with up to three others and take your talents online to posterize your opponents with acrobatic jams and ridiculous displays of skill.

NBA Playgrounds is a sports, basketball and arcade game developed by Saber Interactive and published by Mad Dog Games and LLC.
Released on May 08th 2017 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil and Russian.

It has received 1,363 reviews of which 966 were positive and 397 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is not available on Steam.

The Steam community has classified NBA Playgrounds into these genres:

Sports Basketball Arcade Multiplayer Co-op Local Multiplayer Singleplayer

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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel core i3 CPU 530 2.93GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce GT 630
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 7 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0x compatible sound card

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Oct. 2017
It's a pretty nice Arcade Basketball game with awesome graphics (supports 4K resolution). Gameplay is nice, also the stadiums are nice but the AI needs some fixing, acts with a weird way most of the times, but in general the game is enjoyable and worths it's price (got it on sale 50% off). Recommended.
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June 2017
Really reminds me of the good old NBA Jam game. The single player is fun, but can get boring, this game is meant to be played with friends on the couch, autistically schreeching at eachother when you get blocked at the last second. Pros: - Looks great! - Plays great with gamepad - Sometimes actually challenging in the tournaments - LEGENDARY PLAYERS!!!!111 - No pay to win, just work through games/tournaments, earn xp, get cards Cons: - Pricey, get it at a sale - Commentary can get a bit lame sometimes - Music gets repetitive
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June 2017
GET THis game and let your life change for the better and let all your friendships and rivalries come to an end. s/o 2 maddog and saber interactive for putting so much effort in this game, talking 2 the community and doing bug fixes and updates this game is gonna be the norm in the future gg
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June 2017
On the positive side this game is a modern update to classics like NBA Hangtime & NBA Jam Tournament Edition. However, a few key areas of game play make this quite frustrating to have a "flow" to the game. Suggestions below can be improved upon and hopefully made better in the next patches. 1) Rebounding. The rebounding/box out is seemingly random or heavily favored to the AI for offensive rebounds. At least 5 times to ten times a game in three minutes both my player and CPU player are standing over a basketball on the ground and cannot pick it up while the AI opponent casually walks over and grabs the ball. This is very frustrating over 3 minutes of play. 2) Cross-over dribbling. While excellent, they wipe out 1/2 or more stamina even on players with a high stamina rating. This would never happen in most arcade games so I hope this can be adjusted to allow for multiple cross overs or an option for unlimited. 3) Fade away jumpers. The difficulty in converting a fade away jump shot is almost impossible. I have played as "legend" Tracy McGrady and his shot bar for success on a fade away jump shot is so small and such a difficult narrow window to press shoot that is becomes almost useless to attempt a fade away. 4) Online play. I agree experience points are useful before online play. However, my first opponent played with a team containing Paul George and blocked my shot 10 times and scored at least five three pointers and was next to unguardable. Even Alonzo Mourning could not block dunks in the paint. 5) Clear outs / steal attempts. Same frustrating challenge as cross-over dribbling. One steal attempt or push attempt should not clear out over 33% of stamina. I understand this is not an unlimited turbo game with unlimited pushing and am not asking for that. I think three push attempts per 100% stamina is not too much to ask here is it? There seems to be overcompensation for foulless games and like the game NBA Showtime: NBA ON NBC on Nintendo 64. At least consider an "arcade" mode and simulation mode if that is the key. I thought this game was more "arcade" but it seems to hold onto a bit too much "simulation" in games. Considering I have 3 hours of gameplay it very well could be that I need to play another 15-20 hours to get my experience points up to increase stamina but it seems unlikely. Graphics are pretty nice (GTX 970, 16GB RAM, I7 3.4 GHZ Intel Processor, 1TB HDD). The player cards are fun and I like the random aspect of obtaining "average" to "legend" players in the player packs.
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May 2017
The game is fantastic, only gripe is not telling you what the "perfect dunk" is.. or perfect shot is for that matter. A mix on NBA JAM and Street which hits the feels being a former NBA Showtime tournament player. How is it a mix? Look down below NBA JAM: -obvious 2v2 gameplay -High flying dunks - Shoving as an option NBA Street: Actually gearing off into​ NBA Street HOMECOURT territory, the timing of your shots/dunks factor in of you getting extra points much like the double dunk mechanic. -Gamebreaker-esque meter. Arcade gaming is back. Time for the NullDC emulator to be on the shelf a little bit. EDIT: For perfect shots/dunks, looks like the peak of jumps. Isn't common either so far. Will update if anything happens. EDIT P2: Online is pretty solid. And you get points even when people rage quit (Street fighter 5 take notes) xD
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NBA Playgrounds is not available on Steam.

NBA Playgrounds is not available on Steam yet.

NBA Playgrounds received 966 positive votes out of a total of 1,363 achieving a rating of 6.85.
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NBA Playgrounds was developed by Saber Interactive and published by Mad Dog Games and LLC.

NBA Playgrounds is playable and fully supported on Windows.

NBA Playgrounds is not playable on MacOS.

NBA Playgrounds is not playable on Linux.

NBA Playgrounds offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

NBA Playgrounds offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

NBA Playgrounds does not currently offer any DLC.

NBA Playgrounds does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

NBA Playgrounds supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

NBA Playgrounds is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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NBA Playgrounds PEGI 3
- -83% 17.53€ 2.98€
6.9
966
397
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
0
Developer
Saber Interactive
Publisher
Mad Dog Games, LLC
Release 08 May 2017
Platforms
Remote Play
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