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Revisiting College Hoops 2K8

01:56 PM - March 19, 2012 by DustinT

College Hoops 2K8, though well-received, didn’t exactly rack up the accolades when it first came out almost five years ago. In fact, Operation Sports gave the game a measly seven on the old review scale -- nowhere near an score for what has been considered an all-time classic by the OS community. But since then, a devoted cult following has sprung up around the game. A large community of gamers continues to play College Hoops 2K8 religiously. For this piece, I revisited the game based on the current OS review standards and used rosters from the 2011-12 season to see how well the game holds up and how we might judge this much-beloved title if it came out today.

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# 61 l3ulvl @ 06/04/12 12:04 AM

^^ I love it man, way to take the initiative

Would love to hear if/when they respond.

# 62 woogie98 @ 06/19/12 10:33 AM

Got it for $6 at GameStop....Those IDIOTS

# 63 woogie98 @ 06/19/12 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by smithdynasty


	I just posted this in a blog as well... At this point my desire for college hoops 2k to return with updated gameplay is so great, I wrote this email to 2k's partnerships department. Let me know your thoughts.... To Whom it may concern, I have an unprecedented "Never Been Done Before" opportunity for 2K sports! As a member of the basketball gaming community, I would like to begin a project on kickstarter.com (http://www.kickstarter.com/start) to fund the resurgence of the College Hoops 2k series. Kickstarter is a website dedicated to funding creative projects and initiatives. Although not every proposed project is successful, many video game projects have raised millions of dollars to fund their ventures. Just recently "Double Fine" adventure game raised over $3.3 Million while it only had a fundraising goal of $400K, with just over 87K backers pledging various amounts of money (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...fine-adventure). Based on my reading, it appears 2k chose to stop making this game because the CLC licensing fees were extremely high coupled with the lack of consumer interest in the game. I am aware that I cannot validate this information, as I do not work for 2K. Personally, I believe the consumer interest is there, especially if the "community" helps spread the word (word of mouth is the best method of advertising). With kickstarter.com, not only can you better estimate the amount of consumer interest, but the super fans of the game (like myself) can donate greater sums of money to push this project through. I am beginning this venture with an email to 2ksports with the following goals in mind: 1. Direction pertaining to who would be the best person to correspond with for this inquiry 2. The minimum amount of money it would take for 2k to restart production (this information is required by kickstarter as On Kickstarter, a project must reach its funding goal before time runs out or no money changes hands. That way, no one is expected to develop a project with an insufficient budget) Secondly, I would like to highlight why I believe this could be great for 2K. 1. PR- This is an excellence story! The passion of the gaming community coming together to bring a game back. This would help kick off the marketing of the game, as this has never been done before, and 2K would be front and center. 2. Over abundance - Games often raise much more than their funding goal. 3. Win-Win opportunity for 2k sports

Amazing.. Well put out sir.. Tell us if 2k responds

# 64 SonOfEd @ 06/20/12 10:10 AM

If you get their ear, maybe propose it being sold as a 2 disk set w/ NBA 2K. I always felt that would be a good way to carry the series w/ struggling sales.

# 65 Dos Peninsulas @ 06/20/12 06:18 PM

With 2k Share we can update our own rosters. We've been able to make it all the way to College Hoops 2k12 so far creating our own rosters (well not me, but awesome people who I thank immensely). While they may not be 100% thorough, they work pretty well.

Honestly, because of 2k Share they could probably just make this game every three or four years and allow us to update the rosters in between. If anything, please just make one more version so we can have the 68 team tournament (and an out-of-this-world My Player mode) .

# 66 R1zzo23 @ 06/20/12 08:34 PM

Even if they just gave us the same game with 2k11 gameplay, updated conferences, updated tournament and some recruiting tweaks, we could keep the game going strong another six years easily!

# 67 testorz @ 06/24/12 12:36 PM

I miss the College 2K series and wish 2k or someone would bring out a quality college b ball game ! I also miss EA's Triple Play/MVP baseball series as well ! I fire up my PS2 from time to time to play those games ! LOL !

# 68 R1zzo23 @ 06/24/12 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by testorz


	I miss the College 2K series and wish 2k or someone would bring out a quality college b ball game ! I also miss EA's Triple Play/MVP baseball series as well ! I fire up my PS2 from time to time to play those games ! LOL !

If I could play MVP 05 on my 360 with updated rosters, I would certainly still be playing that game.

# 69 Sinner @ 06/24/12 06:01 PM

I wish I could play 2K College Basketball with My Player...I'm sure it would never happen but I can dream. Looking for this game also..hope to find it again. Never sold it..let a friend borrow it and it got messed up a few years ago and I was sick.

# 70 ImaProblem @ 07/06/12 01:24 AM

2K8 is crushing NCAA BBall to this day! 2KSports for life!!!

# 71 PS3rocks09 @ 07/25/12 07:57 PM

if EA made NCAA Basketball again i would get it unless 2k made it too

# 72 Butta41295 @ 07/25/12 11:31 PM

Yeah and the layup line was a cool feature too.

# 73 Butta41295 @ 07/25/12 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by bhl


	One of the coolest moments I ever had in 2k8 was when I was recruiting in Legacy mode. I had two players that were of the same class, same city. I realized that I was recruiting twins.

The morris twins perhaps? Or the zeller bros or lopez brothers?

# 74 Butta41295 @ 07/25/12 11:46 PM

The block animations are way better. You can actually send the ball back as opposed to being "lucky enough" to get a hand on the shot and tip it like in the new 2k. Also you dont get locked into animations like getting ripped of the ball or having the cpu alter your shot so it can get blocked while the cameras flash.

The crossovers suck tho. You have to e in a certain position to drive someone. If you're not, ypu'll get stripped.

Classic game though.

# 75 Butta41295 @ 07/25/12 11:58 PM

Man, the press on here really causes me to turn the ball over. If im down, it allows me to clomb back into the game.

NBA 2K press sucks and doesnt work at all. You can barely double team on that game.

# 76 VandyRedskins21 @ 07/26/12 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Butta41295


	The crossovers suck tho. You have to e in a certain position to drive someone. If you're not, ypu'll get stripped.

Well it's kind of hard to do a crossover if you are not in the right position to make the move. Of course you will fall over if you are holding the sprint button running full speed at your defender mashing the y and b buttons.

Other than that I would like to be the first to congratulate you on the rare Quadruple post. You just did the equivalent of hitting for the cycle in baseball here on OS.

# 77 Butta41295 @ 07/26/12 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by VandyRedskins21


	Well it's kind of hard to do a crossover if you are not in the right position to make the move. Of course you will fall over if you are holding the sprint button running full speed at your defender mashing the y and b buttons. Other than that I would like to be the first to congratulate you on the rare Quadruple post. You just did the equivalent of hitting for the cycle in baseball here on OS.

hahahaha

HOLD YOUR APPLASE HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE

# 78 SkillzKillz719 @ 03/10/13 11:03 PM

This just makes me sad thinking about it... :/

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