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NBA 2K13 Demo Available Now For 360 and PS3, Post Impressions Here

06:54 AM - September 25, 2012 by Steve_OS

The NBA 2K13 demo is available now on the Marketplace for Xbox Live "GOLD" members (available next week for Silver). Most are getting it by searching for "2K13" or going to Genre ---> Sports and Recreation. You can also queue it up right here.

The PS3 demo arrives later this afternoon, we'll update this post when it's available.

UPDATE: PS3 demo is available now. If you don't see it, search for it.

The new controls take a little while to get used to, so make sure you check out the Controls trailer, we posted yesterday.

NBA 2K13 Demo Features:

Oklahoma City Thunder at Miami Heat
1 Five minute quarter
Quick Game and Online Quick Match. Can't invite friends, just random.
Can't change sliders, camera view, make substitutions or call plays
No commentary
Kinect enabled
943 MB

Play a game or 2 and post your impressions here.

Game: NBA 2K13Reader Score: 8.5/10 - Vote Now
Platform: PC / PS3 / Xbox 360Votes for game: 75 - View All

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Member Comments

# 981 cmebfresh @ 09/26/12 04:15 PM

Durant face is the worst. he needs a update before anybody

# 982 mymannemcee @ 09/26/12 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Vni


	Has anyone flopped successfully yet?

Didn't get a call...but I caught someone.

Dude kept charging down the entire floor with LeBron James. Waited for him to come past the three point line, flopped right in front of him before he charged. He stumbled and dropped a little in front of me, no call, I picked up the ball with Harden and dashed down the floor to score.

That count?

# 983 Nathan_OS @ 09/26/12 04:31 PM

Has anyone been able to keep their opponent scoreless?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

# 984 RocketTMac1 @ 09/26/12 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cmebfresh


	Durant face is the worst. he needs a update before anybody

I'd say Cole, Ibaka and Wade need one before KD.

# 985 sleepyshotta @ 09/26/12 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nathan_OS


	Has anyone been able to keep their opponent scoreless? Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Nah, had a game where I held them to only 2pts tho

# 986 RocketTMac1 @ 09/26/12 04:36 PM

The Heat are hard to play with unless I have Bron in the post and D.Wade slashing. This is not a good sign for my Bobcats because I have no idea how we are going to run our offense.

Speaking of running offense. I think once we get plays and playbooks the game will run better. I find myself getting frustrated at times because I don't freelance everytime down the court when I play.

# 987 sleepyshotta @ 09/26/12 04:40 PM

Wade looks like Gilbert Arenas

# 988 phant030 @ 09/26/12 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by cranes74us


	They are way to many offensive rebounds.

Well, the Heat are very undersized with Bosh on Perk and Battier on Ibaka. As far as the Heat, I can't say.

# 989 Goffs @ 09/26/12 04:54 PM

Reading LD2K's Twitter he mentions that the self alley oop and offensive rebounds have been fixed in the retail version.

# 990 Jakeness23 @ 09/26/12 04:56 PM

The art is definitely going to need the updates (that we didn't get in 2K12) this year. Jerseys don't look good, a lot of the players' skin tones aren't correct (Battier, LeBron, Sefolosha, Westbrook, and MICHAEL JORDAN aren't dark enough). And for the love of God, give us an update so we can have the home/away accessories. If Live can do it, I KNOW 2K can do it.

# 991 Jakeness23 @ 09/26/12 04:56 PM

And we need different player builds because besides the jersey numbers, I can't tell the difference between Durant, Ibaka, and Perkins...

# 992 RocketTMac1 @ 09/26/12 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Jakeness23


	The art is definitely going to need the updates (that we didn't get in 2K12) this year. Jerseys don't look good, a lot of the players' skin tones aren't correct (Battier, LeBron, Sefolosha, Westbrook, and MICHAEL JORDAN aren't dark enough). And for the love of God, give us an update so we can have the home/away accessories. If Live can do it, I KNOW 2K can do it.

For accessories I wait for Rondo Is God to do them. His are great

# 993 blues rocker @ 09/26/12 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by CMH


	This will probably be their best game. I can tell the gameplay will be, at the very least, good. But I can't anymore with the control of the players. It's killing it for me. At times the player control should be smooth, I feel like I'm pushing hard for movement. At times when it should be more heavy, it's too smooth. I never feel right with the sticks. It's just a personal thing. Ill be canceling my pre order. Sent from my mobile device.

i think the difficult thing about the player movement right now is that it's somewhat unpredictable due to all the added contextual animations going on...it makes it a bit harder to predict how your player will move...the game seemed to take on this "variable animation" quality in 2k12.

Say what you will about the player movement in 2k11, but what made the control feel good was consistency. There was less variety to the animations, so you always knew how your player would move...it was simpler and a thus bit easier to grasp.

anyway, i don't necessarily think their control philosophy is a bad thing, but it's going to take some getting used to. as gamers we've been trained that when you do specific motion on your controller, you get a specific movement from the character. we have been trained that every time you do that motion, you will get the same exact animation...now I feel like my player kind of has a mind of his own. i still need to adjust.

# 994 ForeverVersatile @ 09/26/12 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RocketTMac1


	For accessories I wait for Rondo Is God to do them. His are great

I'm pretty sure hes talking about official NBA2K art updates not PC mods.

# 995 DaBlackProdigy @ 09/26/12 05:13 PM

Lol People on these forums talk like there are game developers, just spewing nonsense.

# 996 RocketTMac1 @ 09/26/12 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Throne2K11


	I'm pretty sure hes talking about official NBA2K art updates not PC mods.

I'm talking about Xbox 360 hex edited rosters. Had them all last year. If you are looking for accessories home/away and all unlocked jersey's and some cyberfaces.

# 997 m1ke_nyc @ 09/26/12 05:22 PM

I wish 2K could get crowd atmosphere correct someday. Thunder-Heat should have a playoff type atmosphere and you can barely hear the crowd at times although I think the crowd does a better job of reacting to whats going on on the court. Just take the feature from Live 10 of choosing crowd atmosphere but give it a different name. "Crowd noise" will do fine for me lol.

# 998 secondletta2 @ 09/26/12 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by TajDeni


	because of the confusion i popped in 2k12 to better explain myself. where are the player-specific size up moves? from 2k12: Sizeup - from a stand dribble hold LT then move LS toward basket Sizeup Cross - from a stand dribble hold LT then move LS from ballhand towards non-ballhand Sizeup Inside Out - from a stand dribble hold LT then move LS toward players ballhand Sizeup Escape - from a stand dribble hold LT then move LS away from basket where are these moves and also how do you execute them? also almost every player had a set of 4 sizeup moves that were unique to them so Kobe's 4 sizeups were different from LBJ's or Durant's or D-Rose's. where are these moves at in the demo if tapping the RS back 2x is the Sizeup Escape etc. then all the PG/SG/SFs all have the exact same moves and all the PF/Cs have the same moves. hope this makes my question more clear.

I just signed up to quote this . Where are these moves it allowed more of a mix up on offense especially if you cancel the shot into a dribble drive now it seems it ends in a pumpfake.

Also the shot stick just adds a more casual friendly game play whereas in 12 if you wanted to pat the ball down court for example Evan turner hold LT and rock back and forward with left stick. you had to actually have learned the controls it wasn't that hard to do but only a few players knew how to do it. now everyone can do it with CS. I never had problems with which way I wanted to dribble last years game once I mastered that.

# 999 FLAWDAxBALLA954 @ 09/26/12 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eman5805


	He actually didn't slide. His feet did a real quick shuffling sideways hop thing. I was wondering that myself.

A real quick shuffling thing otherwise known as sliding?

# 1000 Sundown @ 09/26/12 05:37 PM

Quick review of the cyberfaces:

Lebron: OK. Not sure if improved from last year, headband angle wrong from last year.

Wade: Looks like Dywane McGrady. Not sure why they needed to update his face but he looks even less like himself than years prior. I liked 2K11's Wade, and some people liked 2K12's, but this year is just flat out off.

Bosh: Improved from last year.

Battier: Not bad except he looks like he has encephalitis. Could tone down the noggin size just a tad.

Allen: Looks decent.

Durant: Horrible. Again, looks like Pooh from some angles. There are moments that Durant actually looks decent and others where he looks completely off. I'm wondering if it has to do with how his expressions are rigged and how his eyebrows are mapped, because when he makes certain expressions is when he looks completely strange.

Westbrook: Not bad except for that weird mustache.

Harden: Pretty good, but looks souless for some reason.

Ibaka: Looks pretty good.

Perkins: Looks pretty good.

Somehow 2K12 decided to redo some stars and ended up with models worse than last years. The problem isn't necessarily that 2K's art team is bad-- it's that there seems to be lackluster quality control and faces are being approved by someone who isn't intimately familiar with what NBA players actually look like. I can understand a bench guy or role player's mediocre cyberface slipping through the cracks but at the very least they should get their superstars and cover athletes right. If they're going to update, they need to make sure it's an actual improvement and not a couple of steps back.

It's pretty concerning when almost all of the biggest stars in last year's finals have problematic faces. I wonder if Durant just sighs and shakes his head when playing as himself in 2K.

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