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Deciding on a basketball game

Posted on March 13, 2009 at 11:09 AM.

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Since I was young, basketball has always been my sport. Played it, watched it, read it about you. You name it, I did it. That included videogames. Well, until recently. For some reason, I've had a hard time getting into either college or NBA videogames the last 3 years.

After watching last night's epic Syracuse-UCONN game, I've got the bug for basketball and really want to try and commit to a game.

The last game I played was College Hoops 2k8. I had fun with it for a while but eventually got tired of the CPU hitting every 3-pointer they threw up and continually blocking shots from my post men on the interior. Another thing that bugged me about the game was that it seemed like to took a long, long time for my players to load up and shoot a shot. Countless times I'd try and shoot a mid-range jumper with my player, only for it to be swatted away by an oncoming defender.

Perhaps I didn't have the sliders adjusted properly and I'll admit, I didn't get into the playcalling feature. I wound up trading it in towards MLB 09: The Show (PS2).

So, I'm throwing these questions out to you in the OS community because I respect your opinions on sports games:

Should I give College Hoops 2k8 another shot? If so, where should I look for sliders and can anyone give me advice on running set plays?

NCAA Basketball 09: honestly, how is it? I played the Demo but didn't really have an opinion one way or another? Is the floor spacing really that good? Are the fast breaks fun but not overdone? How's dynasty mode?

College or pro, which is the best basketball game? Admittedly I prefer college more than the NBA, but if an NBA game is far-and-away the best out there, I'll give it a shot.

Thanks for the help...I hope a lot of you were able to watch that SU-UCONN game last night; if not, I'm sure ESPN Classic will be replaying it very soon.

Go Orange!

Comments

# 1 jms625 @ Mar 13

nba 2k9, played demo for live.. eh and also own ncaa basketball 09, if you want my opinion on that.. ea needs to go back to the drawing board!

# 2 Shake_n_Bake @ Mar 13

NBA 2K9 without question,is the best basketball game of all time. You would be amazed at all the animations that's packed into that game.I've been playing the game since it's release and every game i've played i have seen a different animation or something new to make me want to play it more. As far as college games,i never hear anything good about them.

# 3 DJ @ Mar 16

Went back to College Hoops 2k8 over the weekend and I'm glad I did. I feel terrible for having traded it in a few weeks ago. The broadcast camera angle really opens the floor up and running set plays really makes a difference. Loving this game!