NBA 2K11 Demo Available Now, Impressions and Discussion Here (360,PS3)

[elprez98]

Quote: Originally Posted by NINJAK2

Guys- How do Paul Pierce and Ray Allen look this year from a face model standpoint in the demo? If not too much trouble could someone post a screen capture?

PP looks ok, but they got Ray-Ray lookin' like he just walked out of a geriatric ward.

[RubenDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by ryanm1058123

oh man. i think i'm back. nba2k10 was putrid, but this is a real step in the right direction. whats with the players moving when you arent even doing anything? they slide. that pisses me off.

you mean off a pass when that player should be in a triple threat? and instead he's dribbling and moving? Ive seen it a few times. its when two guys come into contact with each other. I have seen it a couple times. I dont know if this helps but try to quickly hold down LT as you catch the pass and FORCE thee triple threat.

I must say, you really have to plan out your dribble moves. One Size up move right and a cross left.. If that doesnt yield anything, PASS THE BALL.. I've found myself forcing the issue with isomotion dribbling on many occassions. I have to let it come naturally to me.

One instance that almost brought a tear to my eye. The play was unfolding like 2k9 and 2k10. I was guarding Rondo with Fisher. Rondo passed off and made a cut to the basket. In any other prior years game, you wouldve seen a streamlined pass through two defenders.. Instead Boston passed it around two more times, and found an open jumper. Rondo's movement to the paint caused my defense to collapse, yielding an open CPU shot.. NONE OF THAT BACKDOOR PIP GARBAGE.

btw..

KOBE TONGUE sighting.. Dude was licking his lips after being fouled. A moving video game tongue. who wouldve thought

[Lakers 24 7]

The demo is very limited and hard to get any good sense of what 2k11 is going to be about. You only get one difficulty mode (which I hope isn't sim), one camera view, and limited controls. Without any playcall options we have no way to tell how the game has improved in that regard and can't really put it through its' proper paces to test the sim nature of the game. Of course it's also still very easy to dunk, no physical play in the paint, so who knows what online & sim will be like.

Player movement is improved over last year, but still not nearly as precise as 2k8 was and now the players seem somewhat sporadic at times.

The one concern that the demo has alleviated for me however is player spacing. The spacing seems just fine and much improved over 2k9 and 10.

Overall though with the demo being so limited and the gameplay in general I can't say that I'm exactly sold on 2k11. Its improved, but it remains to be seen whether or not this will rival or be better than 2k8 in terms of sim play and realism.

[Dawgthem]

After playing the demo i honestly think the reason they locked it to 4 mins and 1 quarter is because every year 2k's ram use and every things gets bigger and bigger you can only cram so much into a demo before its to big to download me

[Da_Czar]

Quote: Originally Posted by WTF

You just made it extremely hard to not download the demo. I'm a demo feen normally, but I'm trying my best not to download this so it'll all be fresh when it finally gets here. Sounds like everything that us old heads could ask for, and then some. Nice writeup Macca

Don't do it WTF.... Its really not that good. REALLY.

[NINJAK2]

Quote: Originally Posted by elprez98

PP looks ok, but they got Ray-Ray lookin' like he just walked out of a geriatric ward.

Thanks prez..hopefully it's an old build and they have done some work.

[jmood88]

Quote: Originally Posted by Oblong

Thanks to the member who sent me the link to the historic teams. Shame they teased us with a few good ones, omitted some that would be great (like the Rockets), and just went overboard with so many Bulls squads. The link hinted the list of historic teams as being "for now..." so I'm going to hold tight and hope they work on beefing that up with DLC. Do that 2K, and you've sold at least 1 more copy of you game than you would have.

I like how people act like all they have to do to get historic teams is decide that they want one and add it. They need to sign each individual player to get these teams.

[WTF]

Quote: Originally Posted by Da_Czar

Don't do it WTF.... Its really not that good. REALLY.

I can tell. Everybody here is ragging on the game, no good comments about it at all.