NBA 2K16
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6About NBA 2K16
The NBA 2K franchise is back with the most true-to-life NBA experience to date with NBA 2K16. Featuring an all-new MyCAREER experience written, directed and produced by acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee. Guide your MyPLAYER through the complete NBA journey, take control of an entire NBA franchise, or hone your skills online competing against gamers from around the world. With animations that provide smoother movement and more realistic articulation, and a unique cover design featuring NBA stars Stephen Curry, Anthony Davis and James Harden, it’s certain to be the most authentic NBA gaming experience yet. MyCAREER - A SPIKE LEE JOINT. Our most intense first-person narrative to date, written and directed by Spike Lee. For the first time, manage your off days and earn bonus content through connections, endorsements and a live practice environment. 2K Pro-Am. A groundbreaking new mode featuring fully customizable teams and 5v5 tournaments livestreamed on NBA 2KTV. Join forces with friends to create the perfect squad all the way down to custom logos, uniforms & arenas, or walk on and join any open game. ENHANCED GAMEPLAY. A new motion engine generates smarter, hyper-realistic movement plus
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Before I go into the gameplay, let's address the elephant in the room
Before I go into the gameplay, let's address the elephant in the room. Spike Lee's My Career. I have a big problem with being forced to be black for the story to make sense. Not because there's anything bad about being black (full disclosure: I'm a black man), but because its lazy writing. Spike seems to want to tell his story of a struggling black kid from Harlem, New York making it to the NBA. That's great for a movie, but this is supposed to be a game. And the best games give the player the most choices. Choices are why Western RPGs like Dragon Age:Inquisition & Skyrim are more popular right now than Japanese RPGs that force you to play through a bunch of set pieces as their stock protagonist. I'm opposed to any game mode that removes choice from players, especially when those choices existed in last year's game. With that out of the way, NBA 2K16's gameplay has improved over the past two iterations. Defense is more effective & physical. You can't just bully your way into the post with a random SF anymore. Shot selection seems to be even more important this year & fastbreaks actually seem fast this year. The 2K Shop, however, is another matter. They're selling virtual Gatorade now?!? C'mon man...that's just a blatant cash grab. Everything costs VC this year. Designing your court would be great if they didn't nickel & dime you to death for accessories. I know that you can earn some things through My Career, but its still ridiculous to charge 500 VC for different colored nets. Overall, I enjoy the gameplay more than ever. But 2K needs to stop letting outsiders write stories for games & be a bit less greedy next year. Pick this up now if you're absolutely addicted to sports games. Otherwise, catch it on the next Steam sale.
- Graphics3.0
- Gameplay3.0
- Story2.5
- Value2.5
Not the game for me
When you play NBA2k most like the Story mode, NBA2k knew that so they brought in somebody who knows Basketball and how to put together a good story, Spike Lee. This game proved to me that my assumptions about Spike Lee were correct. He cant write a good story, the only city in this mans mind is New York, and there is only 1 race in Spikes world, Black. If you enjoy personal player customization, than this game is NOT for you. Pike Lee stereotyped this game all over the place, if your Asian, Russian, White, Mexican, etc, than im sorry, but according to this game, your now African American, but you can choose what shade of African American, so thats good I guess. There is only 1 voice for your charactor. If you try to make your charactor look as much like another ethnic group as possible, you then have to deal with the fact you have a black family, which is fine, I can do the adopted thing, but wait, you have a twin sister who is also black. Now, your name, you'd probably like to have your very own name wouldnt you, too bad, you are now known as "Freq", which is short for Frequency Vibrations. Oh ya, you live in the projects in Harlem, nowhere else, you cant choose LA, Houston, Canada, London, nope, its Harlem. Your best friend is a drugged out loud mouth, your sister wont give you any privacy. How about choosing a college to goto, that you can do, aslong as your favorite school is 1 of the 8 they give you to choose from. Now, im not saying thoe entire game is junk, its not, infact the only part of the game thats junk is the MyCareer mode, all the other aspects of the game are fine. Well, except for those who pre-ordered the game and didnt get what was promised for those who pre-ordered, ugh!
- Graphics3.5
- Gameplay2.5
- Story2.5
- Value2.0
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