NBA 2K10 Review

[Court_vision]

Excellent review. Glad positives like rebounding finally get mentioned in a review.

Re jump shots under the rim...those have been in this series for a while now, not just 10.

[ai2k2]

Cool Review. 8.5 keeps it consistent with other sites and the write confirms only thing 2k has over the competition now is Presentation and Animations. The talk about A.I. got pounded.

[Playmakers]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vikingfan84

I played the demo a handful of times. I really enjoyed how this years game felt. Just needs a few tweaks and it'll be golden.

I didn't bother playing the demo because Jskywalker had already told me how the Final version plays ahead of time.

Now granted this is only my 2nd year playing 2K basketball so i'm still getting use to the controls. But since every thing is new and fresh to me and I don't see the issues the same way some guys that have played 2K for years might see them.

I've played about 6 games and IMO after reading this review I'd say the game is very close to how he rated it and that's without any tweaks.

I started messing with some sliders after about my 3rd game and to me this game is pretty damn sick with correct sliders. I absolutely love the animations and how the players just seem to be themselves on the floor. I was very impressed with some of the things I've seen from the CPU players in this game. I've never seen any CPU AI in a basketball game perform and behave the way I'm seeing the AI in 2K10 handle their business on the floor.

Some people might hate the AI throwing alley oop's but to me I can't think of any other game where I've seen it executed so realistic during actual gameplay. Now maybe it's because I'm new to just about everything 2K has to offer in this game but man i feel like i'm in hoops heaven when i play the CPU right now.

If i had one knock against the review I'd rate it higher in terms of annoucing because Harlan and Kellog do a wonderful job and that was just based on my exhibition games without getting into a season mode yet.

[Artman22]

Quote: Originally Posted by Playmakers

I didn't bother playing the demo because Jskywalker had already told me how the Final version plays ahead of time. Now granted this is only my 2nd year playing 2K basketball so i'm still getting use to the controls. But since every thing is new and fresh to me and I don't see the issues the same way some guys that have played 2K for years might see them. I've played about 6 games and IMO after reading this review I'd say the game is very close to how he rated it and that's without any tweaks. I started messing with some sliders after about my 3rd game and to me this game is pretty damn sick with correct sliders. I absolutely love the animations and how the players just seem to be themselves on the floor. I was very impressed with some of the things I've seen from the CPU players in this game. I've never seen any CPU AI in a basketball game perform and behave the way I'm seeing the AI in 2K10 handle their business on the floor. Some people might hate the AI throwing alley oop's but to me I can't think of any other game where I've seen it executed so realistic during actual gameplay. Now maybe it's because I'm new to just about everything 2K has to offer in this game but man i feel like i'm in hoops heaven when i play the CPU right now. If i had one knock against the review I'd rate it higher in terms of annoucing because Harlan and Kellog do a wonderful job and that was just based on my exhibition games without getting into a season mode yet.

you're right. IMO I would give this game an 8.8 or even 9 to be honest. It's a good game.

[Court_vision]

The problem with scores is that they are a natural point of comparison.

They are also a historical reference...and I'm pretty sure NBA 2K9 got a 9/10 rating.

That's unfortunate as there's just no way in hell that 2K10 is not better than 2K9.

Madden 10 getting a 9 and NBA 2K9's review both will kind of go down as Op Spots "things that make you go hmmmmmmm" moments.

[fjccommish]

I simmed a rating for Madden 10. It came up as a 4, but that's because of a bug in displaying ratings. It's actually a 7. Hopefully I can address the simmed ratings bug in the first title update. If not, it will be fixed for the Madden 2011 review.

[Whoman]

I give the review a 6/10, missing to comment on key aditions and some problems, instead focussing on "easy targets". Not impressed here. I´m sorry, but the negative mentioned are much less obvious than anything in 2K9, yet the rating goes down ?

About the playcalling : Watch an NBA game, there´s much less actual playcalling than you´d think other than "quick plays" and running the Pick & Roll. This isn´t the NFL.

[emo_nerd73]

Quote: Originally Posted by Whoman

About the playcalling : Watch an NBA game, there´s much less actual playcalling than you´d think other than "quick plays" and running the Pick & Roll. This isn´t the NFL.

true man, but every team has like at least 4 offensive sets where there are like 4 or 5 different options. and sometimes you got some hog on the team that deviates from the offence and goes "yeah i want a pick and roll so i can score ". so yeah there probably is a substancial amount of playcalling involved.

but really, instead of these new position specific plays they introduced, id rather that the plays that you DO choose to be run through much more smoothly and faster like a real game instead of waiting like a douche with the pg at the 3pt line for like 12 seconds and then having to go 1 on 1 anyway cos the shot clock is going down.