You might need to remind yourself this every few minutes or so.īeyond the standard graphical improvement, the developers put an increased focus on some specific aspects of the gamplay. A good thing.) You know, just like in real basketball. (That was the case in NBA 2K11 as well, but it feels a little more natural this time around. ![]() Or you can’t just lazily toss a pass through traffic and expect it to magically fly through a bunch of defenders’ limbs. If you’re controlling an off-the-ball defender and knock into a separate player, it actually looks like what transpires when one guy runs into another guy. So you can’t do things like, say, run one player right through another. It’s probably the smoothest hoops game yet, as players glide around the floor effortlessly, but the realistic physics of the gameplay that a user-specifically one familiar with the game of basketball-would want are maintained. NBA 2K12 is no exception, it succeeds in doing so. I played both NBA’s Greatest mode and the standard Quick Play mode today, and here’s some of what I learned:Įach year, the newest version of a video game series-any series, really-aims to improve on the basic visual graphics of the previous year’s version. And though last year’s version included a Jordan Challenge, giving the user an opportunity to recreate all of Money’s biggest games, 2K12 has an “NBA’s Greatest” mode, in which the user can play as one of 15 classic NBA squads-each led by a different legendary superstar-against a rival team of the same era. Here’s what I knew going in: While Michael Jordan graced the front of NBA 2K11, MJ, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird will all get their own covers of 2K12. ![]() Given the status of the (actual, real-life) League, video game hoops may be the only NBA ball fans will get to experience for a while, so the anticipation around this year’s release-NBA 2K12, which drops officially on October 4, 2011-feels a little extra special. By Adam Figman | cut right to the chase: With the assistance of the good folks at Access Communications, I was given the opportunity to play the newest iteration of the NBA 2K series today.
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