NBA 2K12 Demo Available Now, Post Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[draztikrhymez]

What's this watered down ps3 talk? Was the final game watered down last year or just demo?

[coolcras7]

Quote: Originally Posted by mreyes930

The only negative I see so far is that PS3 still doesn't have the camera men under the basket like the 360. Not a big deal but it's a bit sad seeing that after watching all of the 360 demo vids this morning then booting up my PS3 to see the same product with missing details.

Looks pretty good to me did not see any jiggies, and this is a old build

[jcwkings]

Quote: Originally Posted by blues rocker

yeah...when i started mine it said it would take like 83 minutes to download...and i have a slow internet connection as well...damn thing is going to take almost an hour and a half to download.

yea i got 25 mb/s and its saying 50 minutes, im gonna get resident evil 4, then have 2k download in the background.

[mreyes930]

Quote: Originally Posted by coolcras7

Looks pretty good to me did not see any jiggies, and this is a old build

I'm just saying the 360 demo has the cameramen on the baseline and the PS3 doesn't.

One more thing I noticed. On the 360 version, during a whistle, a little crawl pops up in the corner with Lebron and Dirk and it says NBA 2K12 Coming October 5 but little Lebron and Dirk don't show up on the PS3 version. Maybe I'm missing something. Back to gaming.

[Nodima]

Mine took about 5.

Some things I've been noticing so far:

It definitely feels like I'm more in control of the players than last year, but the game still feels kind of floaty. Most times I brought this up nobody felt like they'd seen it, and since most people play 360 I have to assume it's just a problem with the PS3 version. It's really hard to beat your defender or even pull off dribble moves for me right now, like I can't even do a crossover consistently. I play and love Broadcast camera so I don't think that's the issue...maybe the controls are set to Absolute or something? I play camera relative.

Colors seem really, really dull compared to all the videos I've seen, or even 2K11. It's like there's a filter on the game; I don't mind it I guess, but it looks a lot different.

I like how responsive the post up button is, I went with a Butler crossover on LeBron and hit the triangle out of habit for a stepback jumper but he went right into a backdown and put pressure on LeBron as soon as he got close enough. It was seamless.

The layup A.I. seems a lot more intelligent, I drove with Rudy and kicked it to Dirk as the two defenders in the paint rose up to contest. Dirk used the rim to protect the ball and went around the basket to the other side instead of just putting up a dinky little shot.

Like the past two years dribbling feels completely different, I'm having a hard time pulling off moves. The post up stuff also gives me a bit of a hard time, but one thing I'm not noticing that happened every time last year was that I can do a shimmy fake or an aggressive up and under fake and still do other moves besides a face-up after. In 2K11 if I tried to do any sort of combo move after a fake I would just do little shoulder fakes, I couldn't do an up-and-under for example.

PS3 demo seems to start up much slower than 360, I noticed the Up Next screen would always seem to get cut off early in videos but here you see both players' stats clearly and then get to look at the 2K logo for 10 seconds.

I love the stat overlays, I hope we get to see a ton of them throughout a full length game. In particular, they showed an overlay with the game's largest lead, the number of lead changes and another stat I can't remember. Great stuff.

Also, on my second playthrough the intro By the Numbers graphics still played out but the camera stayed looking at one end of the court and all the things you'd normally see in the stylish presentation happened like ghosts flashing in and out of focus for 1-3 seconds. It was a really bad glitch and hopefully not in the retail product. The numbers still flew across the screen too.

[T3AMGEIST]

Quote: Originally Posted by Austin_Ben

Like Vince carter Olympic style?

Yes! I was like Holy ****! 0.0

[johnnyg713]

did the graphics take a little hit or is it just me

[Nodima]

I just saw J-Kidd dribble off Dirk's foot trying to start the break with the new push-ball animation. Very nice, definitely going to be a useful change for online against turbo abusers, you can't just blast off across the court if you get ahold of the ball in a crowd.

Like someone else mentioned, the LeBron-Dirk animation is not in the PS3 version.

The post up button is awesome, though. You can do fairly complex stuff from last year really simply now. I just engaged Bosh on the high post, rolled off his left to the left low block, re-engaged and went into a one-legged fade over my right shoulder in the span of 3 seconds with just three button presses. It's awesomely responsive and looks as unstoppable as it should in the hands of a guy like Dirk.

Haha, I just dribbled to the baseline and ran right out of bounds. I LOVE THAT. There was no force field or anything, Rudy just stepped right out. going to take a lot of skill to toe the line this year.