Thanks to the introduction of dual control, it’s a lot easier to give orders to your team-mates, telling them to set up screens for example to create easy scoring chances. With the off court changes covered, what’s the game like on the court? Well, 2K’s refined gameplay is better than ever while the core game is the same as in previous titles, but it’s been sped up to create a more up-tempo, fast flowing experience.
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Perhaps the most impressive addition to the mode however is the new inclusion of an “nba.com” homepage system, which provides the player with a wide range of information from up to date scores to trade rumours from around your association. But with the computer scouting players for me, I was provided strengths and weaknesses for a variety of players which allowed me to choose just the right one to help my team.
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In previous 2K titles I'd find that during the season I'd simply forget to scout any prospects more than once and I was left clueless on draft day. I found these new options a real help when going through my association, particularly the automated scouting. New options are available allowing the computer to arrange scouting of college prospects and their NBA workouts, sending your players to training camps at the end of the year and even performing trades in order to improve your roster. Basically a standard “season” mode allowing you to control a team, the association mode has been radically changed. While the analysis provided is accurate for the most part, it's a simple regurgitation of last year's commentary with a few touch-ups which is slightly disappointing given the attention given to other areas of the game.įans of 2K’s “NBA Blacktop” will be pleased as it makes its way back into the game, complete with the Sprite Slam Dunk contest, but the most important feature in terms of game mode this year is the revamp of the immersive Association mode. The commentary team has been changed with Kenny Smith being replaced by Clark Kellogg as the game's analyst who, 2K claim, combined with sidline reporter Cheryl Miller and Kevin Harlan create one of the "most knowledgable broadcast teams in the game".
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The soundtrack is typically what you'd expect to find in a basketball game, a varied selection of artists providing primarily hip-hop tracks the background music wasn't particularly to my taste but it seemed to suit the game well. The menus are slick and refined (although navigation still takes a bit to get used to), and you’re even presented with highlights of the team’s star players before a game. The NBA 2K games have never been ugly from an aesthetic standpoint but they’ve always lacked the finesse and polished veneer that EA sports titles have. 2K on the other hand is the less than attractive girl but with a fully functioning brain. I emphasise the off the court improvements here because it's always been what truly set Live and 2K apart in terms of presentation Live, and all EA sports titles are like a really beautiful girl but once you get past the surface, she struggles to spell her own name. So what, then, has 2K done to justify a purchase of 2K8 version 2, so to speak? From the get go it is obvious 2K have really made an effort to improve the game both on and off the court. You take the last iteration of your chosen sports game, give it a new coat of polish with one or two upgrades and send it back out again in anticipation the fan will buy it despite the relative lack of improvement and while this may seem obvious to most gamers, we do exactly what the developers expect us to do. Most gamers will agree that sports games, or more so the developers of them, are guilty of what I like to call the “recoat” policy.
#Music nba 2k9 series
2K9 is the 4th instalment of the series on the “HD consoles”, and features the same in-depth gameplay that has made the NBA 2K brand so popular, and is also the first title in the series to be released for the PC. NBA 2K is that franchise, beginning in 1999 on the ill-fated Sega Dreamcast, the series has since moved onto greener pastures following Take-Two’s acquisition of Visual Concepts and the 2K series along with it.
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However, there has always been one series of games that for nearly a decade has battled with EA’s NBA Live series for the virtual basketball crown. Madden is one of the best selling games in the NA region, and with a whole plethora of other titles under the “EA Sports” logo, it can be daunting for other developers to step foot into this relatively uncharted minefield and dethrone the king so to speak. If there’s one thing that is agreed about American sports games in recent years it’s that EA generally seems to have the market well under control. By VGChartz Staff, posted on 21 October 2008 / 6,861 Views