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Posted on April 28, 2009 at 10:27 AM.

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Here's a question that I think is always interesting to ask about sports games, and it's one that I think I know the answer to for most people.

Let's assume two things before I do this thought experiment. First, the two games are both the best of their genre and sport ever. We're going to assume basketball here to help us out. Both games are incredible games and OS gave them both a 10. They're virtually tied in all aspects except one: one is a simulation like NBA 2K and one is an arcade game like NBA Jam.

Now remember, both games are the best. Before we get started one warning: No copping out with lame answers of both or neither, that's not how this works!. So which do you prefer if you could only have one: the arcade game or the simulation game?

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# 16 hbk_wess @ Apr 30

Definatly sim...even in racing games. EA has done a horrible job with the NASCAR series...Papyrus and Sierra Sports had it right. They even had an arcade version in the same game. As far as the other sports titles it is sim also. Nothing like true to life games. High Heat Baseball wasnt that great looking but the game play and sim of the game was right on.

If I want to play an arcade game I will pick up a copy of NBA Jam, MLB Slugfest, or NFL Street or Blitz. And there is no way to me that any of those games have the replay value of the sim sports games.

Isn't replay value what most of us want in games?

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