NBA 2K12 Reviewer Gameplay Impressions

[jmarcguy]

Uh.... anyway. The gameplay is great! The AI is tough & plays smart. My complaints involve losng things that were in 11. Substitutions are so tough! That & the restrictions on the legends are my big complaints. Good game otherwise.

[DustinT]

Quote: Originally Posted by luckeeloo

I understand that people are paid to write favorable articles, reviews, and comments, but some of you guys take this way too far I think. It insults the reader's intelligence and wrecks your credibility. Anyone who's put in more than 8 hours by now will realize that the game has many glaring problems. Gameplay issues that easily outweigh the upside. A shame that 2K comes very close to being awesome but seems to devote so much more time and money to advertising than on the product itself.

That's your opinion. I agree this game has more problems than we anticipated, but it's still a damn good game. The gameplay is the best from an NBA game to date.

My big gripes are My Player and online. MP was too hyped to be shipped with these issues and online is just starting to get annoying. I don't remember the last year online worked.

Regardless though, this is still better than 2K11.

[bumpyface]

IAs many praises that this game has recieved you would think Jesus made this game. I unfortunately don't share the same love for 2k12. This game is overated. I basically only care about gameplay and I have to say that 12 is a step down. As I play the game more the controls are becoming more natural, but 2k11 handled better in my opinion. When I play online I'm often scared that I will destroy my controller trying to stay in front of a ball handler or contest a shot. You have to press the button you need 3 sec before you actually need it. I couldn't rate this game higher than a 8.

[Al_Boogie3]

The game play is so realistic and you have people complaining about certain things.

1. If you are a back peddling and the ball handler stops on a dime to take a jump shot and you try to contest a shot, like in real life there will be a delay on the defender jumping up to contest a shot becuase he will have to gather himself from back peddling.

2. there is a small window on trying to make a pass when there is a pick and role in real life, so trying to make the pass on the actual game is more realistic.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I respects everyone thoughts, I'm just trying to give some input on how the devs at 2K thought about the game

[moemoe24]

Only thing that got better with this game is the graphics. Everything else took a step backwards. The legend garbage they sold us is just that....garbage.

[mpt54]

Fun game highly recommended

[MilesTeg]

I've played every game in this series since litterally the first one (and NBA Action before that), spent hundreds of hours in each of them, some were amazing (2K11), others disappointing (2K10).

I just cannot believe the amount of praise NBA 2K12 got. It is, and I'm not exagerating, the worst basketball game I've ever played. The balance, controls and AI are atrocious, making the game almost unplayable. The simplest things like moving your selected player are incredibly broken, I got to the point where I wonder if 2K games made the game as awful as humanly possible to see what they could get away with.

And indeed they can get away with a lot. Judging by what I see on the net, people are too focused on presentation and great features like being able to market your own shoe (what the hell?!!) to even notice a horrible gameplay.

You see, in the past I used to rant on the imperfections of the game, like the passing system and the always very bad playcalling. With NBA 2K12, I can't even complain about that. I'd just like to be able to move my character. I'd like to just be able to play a little bit of defense on bad one on one plays, or play a somewhat organised offense without the feeling I'm shooting myself in the foot for not just running forward with James.

But all I can do is watch as my players do their own thing, my defense doomed to remain an disorganised mess of players running in the wrong direction, no matter what defensive settings I choose (and I did experiment and play this game a lot in case anyone is wondering; I was in denial for a while and thought I was the problem).

I completely lost faith in this series, the critics, and the players. I just don't understand how people can be so blind, so focused on the superficial. The worst part is that when I mention the big, unsurmountable problems of this game people generally agree but they still keep playing like nothing's wrong. Is gameplay not important? Is it more important to get a cheesy post game conference and your own virtual shoe deal than to get a well balanced game?