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NBA 2K10 Interview: Part 2 (Game Informer)

01:18 AM - September 15, 2009 by drewbaby1414

Game Informer has posted Part 2 of their interview with lead feature designer Erick Boenisch and lead gameplay producer Rob Jones, as they talk more about NBA 2K10.

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	GI: "Let�s shift the focus onto the court. What are the big changes coming to 2K10 in terms of gameplay?" Rob Jones: "The thing that I�m the most excited about is the new Signature Play feature. What Signature Play is to me is really a big umbrella that takes what we started with, with signature style or whatever you want to call it in 2K7 with all the jumpers and dribble moves, expanding that to post packages�if you take all of that as one item and put it under this umbrella. We were doing signature celebrations and ambient stuff before, now we have signature facial animations. All of this brings these guys to life in the way that you would actually see them in the league. It doesn�t sound like much until you actually see it; it punctuates the rest of the game. The biggest thing for me is the signature tendencies stuff we did with 82 games this year. At the beginning of the year one of the big things we wanted to do was portray players with individualized tendencies and abilities in a way that the AI could really replicate the way they play when you play against them. We built the system from scratch. We added 36 tendencies, plus we needed to add additional data as preferences that aren�t necessarily tendencies to get a better picture of what a guy does. The big thing for me was I was mostly a defensive player back when I was more athletic. [Laughs] The thing that made me smarter and better at doing that was I picked up on players� tics really quickly. Their tendencies�what they liked to do and how they attacked the player that was in front of them based on their size or based on their speed�that stuff carried on for any particular guy every time they played. A great player will adjust. If you take something away from him, he�s going to do something completely different. But their preferences and tendencies to do things�those were quantifiable."

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# 41 tril @ 09/16/09 09:52 PM

sounds like some of these feature were in last years pc version.

# 42 t216 @ 09/17/09 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Marino


	The Association is all that I play, it sounds like it will be a blast this year. Sold!

I'm an association junkie as well..so I'm hoping it'd be the best experience.

# 43 DJ @ 09/17/09 01:42 PM

Man, looks like I'm going to have to get both games this year.

# 44 youvalss @ 09/17/09 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Djwlfpack


	Man, looks like I'm going to have to get both games this year.

It's not about what game you buy, it's about what game you bring back to the store

# 45 Vast @ 09/17/09 05:46 PM

Wow. As much as i think Live is a good game. its IMO a generic good basketball game(in the demo none of the players played or looked life like), 2k10 is the real NBA in videogame form. In game saves is a god send for me, and the additions to Association and tendencies, along with the aggressive Defense modifier, all the tweaks to gameplay.
The improved Court Spacing, addition of true Help Defense rotations. Barring any gamekilling flaws, this is as big a leap from 2k9 as 2k7 was over 2k6!!

And i can't wait for the My player mode, and the improved hopefully non laggy team up mode. This game i CANT WAIT FOR.

# 46 bamalam @ 09/17/09 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by sambowie


	lol Exactly! If there is any person on the face of this Earth that will even consider playing an entire season as all 30 teams just to avoid bad trades it will be someone from THIS site. OS = Where people get excited about 10 day contracts and restricted FA features happen.

you dont have to play as all 30, but you can control trades, rotations/minutes, signing of fa , fix the rookie minutes, etc without having to do all the work - arounds like in the past because of dumb cpu ai in those areas.

you can sim 1-30, or play as 1-30 . all about options

# 47 RedmanR @ 09/18/09 10:30 PM

This interview really sound interesting. I can't wait for more game play videos and screenshots

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