NBA 2K9 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[newsguy]

Here's a repost I made from another forum:

I played for about an hour. It's still solid as ever but I did notice a couple of things that bothered me. Before inbounding the ball the player you're controlling walks through molasses. Once the computer decides to let you control him freely, it's normal, and while it's not affecting gameplay, it's really annoying fro some reason. Also, I don't like the "run into the defender" animation this year. it seems much longer and drawn out. For example, I'm arounf the top of the key, but closer to the sideline. I make a move towards the basket but the defender gets a step and fronts me. No big deal, but the animation of my player pushing into the defender sends me all the way to the baseline and now I'm vulnerable through no fault of my own.

Also, they dumbed down the post moves a bit. Last year if you had a player like KG and you were backing someone down, you could let go of the LT and he would spin in that direction and leave the defender behind. This isn't the case anymore, forwards can still do it, but it seems big men will do a little hopstep and stop in their tracks without you telling them to.

[JDK]

I just played the demo yesterday and the gameplay seemed a lot more polished. I noticed that you have to hold the modifiers to do most of the dribble moves and post ups are now automatic down low. Good gameplay overall, but on my standard def TV the graphics were a little messed up. The players had jagged edges around them and the court logos were blurry. Also the display didn't fit on my screen. Since 2K seems to have made the players/jerseys less shiny, from a distance the game looks almost worse than 2K8 (on my TV). Up close it was okay and the player faces were excellent. I hope there is something I can change with the game to make it look better in standard.

[dangerzone1]

Lol,I played a game where D.Fisher was absolutley unstoppable...draining 3 after 3 at the end he was like 5/6.I was in awe on he kept getting them in, but it was my fault,i left him open twice on the start,he just heated up...

[Tubaker]

I won my first game (quarter) vs the CPU 15 - 11 .. heres some impressions

KG scored 8 or more of my points.. 4 hook shots all money. not sure if thats good or bad.

shooting has been slowed down alot, lots of blocked jumpers. actually overall the game seems to have slowed down..

I dont know what to make of it yet, my favorite part was the presentation while it was loading .. REAL game shots and highlights .. sweet touch, I cant wait to see the kevin martins little highlight package ..

[OneBadMutha]

Quote: Originally Posted by dangerzone1

Lol,I played a game where D.Fisher was absolutley unstoppable...draining 3 after 3 at the end he was like 5/6.I was in awe on he kept getting them in, but it was my fault,i left him open twice on the start,he just heated up...

Not your fault. Point guards have always dominated 2K games. No different here. I played a bunch of games and had a few games where Kobe didn't shoot until the last possession.

[RubenDouglas]

i still cant really catch and shoot off screens. big gripe of mine right about now. i just now on the harder difficulities my shots wont be going on as they are now.

Btw the CPU lakers had a fastbreak on me. kobe ahead. i was rondo and planted myself in the paint wanting to get posterized. instead kobe throws an alley to odom and I get plowed over by the incoming odom. offensive foul. lovely lovely contextual animations

[DTX3]

How in the world do you shoot while running? ive done it once but dont know how i did it.

[Stumbleweed]

Hit the shot stick in the direction that you're running instead of pulling it back as normal. I don't believe you can shoot the on-command leaners/floaters with the button. Yet another reason to use the shot stick.