NBA 2K9 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[XenoZograscope]

Man the isomotion is beautiful, the spin moves are pretty effective.

[Bornindamecca]

Thanks, man. That info will be real useful in about two hours

[ehh]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bornindamecca

Thanks, man. That info will be real useful in about two hours

It just feels more simple than 2K8, it's kinda hard to explain. When I just hold R2 and flick the stick in the demo (while I've already been dribbling) the guy will tightly sneak by his defender and get some distance, he'll probably travel a solid 5-8 feet forward within the animation. It's pretty damn cool, looks and feels much more realistic. While defensive players ice skating is still there a bit it's not nearly as bad, you don't need relatively large separation to get by a guy anymore. And I haven't seen the "I just beat my guy with a cross over and somehow he morphs back in front of me" animation. Def an improvement.

[WTF]

I have some nice clips of Kobe dunks/highlight real esque. But I can't find my cable to transfer them, haha.

Once I learned the controls a little, I got to the rim at ease... don't like that necessarily, but it's hard to get a good look at the basket once you do get there. Toning down dunks in traffic will be huge. Overall.. color me highly impressed.

[Nodima]

I'm sucking switching back to the Celtics, but two more things I noticed.


A) Hopefully this is just the demo, but the CPU seems to be able to get those infamous running starts from just about anywhere on the court. I've had Pau and Fisher rumbling at my hoop all game long whenever I become the Celtics. I'm a little jealous either way, I've scored maybe 4 layups and I've played this demo at least 20 times. I can recall both dunks I made, one with Pau and one with Kobe. Dribbling in this game got really hard for me.

B) If you always bring the ball up with Rondo, try giving it to Pierce or Garnett around the halfcourt line. It seems like at least 40% of the time I hand the ball off Rondo STREAKS to the basket and really loses Fisher, Gasol or Bynum jsut cuts the lane off so I don't try the pass. But Rondo is a little pest, I can't wait to see someone like Iverson or Monta.

[ehh]

Quote: Originally Posted by WTF

Once I learned the controls a little, I got to the rim at ease... don't like that necessarily, but it's hard to get a good look at the basket once you do get there. Toning down dunks in traffic will be huge. Overall.. color me highly impressed.

I agree. 2K is caught between a rock and a hard place though - I mean Kobe SHOULD be able to blow by Ray damn near every time. The help defense might have to be toned a bit, you could tell that since Ray is playing Kobe at maximum pressure that the CPU is trying to force him to put the ball on the floor and lead him towards the help D, which in the demo isn't all that great - partly because of the DIT issue. Nothing you can do when Kobe starts a windmill from outside the paint, lol. It is tough to get a good look w. pretty much everyone but Kobe though. It's good for Pierce, Allen, Odom, etc.

[Nodima]

Another little thing - you can finally put your hands up on inbounds passes. Probably won't mean anything because of how the game's passing works, but it's nice visually to press right up on that line waving KG's arms around.


Alright, I'm taking that "continuation" comment very literally and starting to get the hang of it. Basically, and this philosophy might catch some cheesers off guard hopefully, you have to actually play basketball it feels like. You don't just hit a button and your guy does some spectacular thing - if you want to cross around that guy, you can't start thinking about a spin while you're still getting around him, you have to hold that thought until it's done.

[ehh]

Quote: Originally Posted by Nodima

Another little thing - you can finally put your hands up on inbounds passes. Probably won't mean anything because of how the game's passing works, but it's nice visually to press right up on that line waving KG's arms around.

Pretty sure that's been in for a few years, can't remember if it's been in NBA but it's def been in CHoops - and it def didn't do anything, lol.