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Check out the new features for NBA 2K14.

Highlight Features:
  • Crews - The single-most requested game mode is back! Face off against opposing crews online using your MyPLAYER. Create your logo and face off in 5v5 battles with other crews featuring leaderboards and stats. (PS3 & Xbox 360 only)
  • Euroleague - Exclusive to NBA 2K14 - play with 14 of the top European teams, featuring authentic uniforms and players.
  • Dynamic Living Rosters® powered by Stats, Inc. - Player attributes and tendencies automatically update daily to reflect true life hot and cold streaks. Now, each game played in the NBA can have an effect on your game.
  • King James Soundtrack - Featuring artists and tracks hand-picked by LeBron James, including JAY Z, Eminem, The Black Keys, Daft Punk, and many more.
  • MyTEAM - Back and better than ever, with new player modes, multi and single player tournaments, and much more. (PS3 & Xbox 360 only)

Key Gameplay Features:
  • Pro Stick™ – Throw down show-stopping moves, pull off intricate shots, and toss flashy no-look passes with deadly accuracy with Pro Stick control. Easily the most intuitive basketball controls ever implemented.
  • 2K Smart Play Button –Quickly call the most suitable play for the context of the game by simply holding a single button.
  • Improved Player Motion System – With an all new motion system, player movement is much smoother on both ends of the floor, while also allowing for much more explosive cuts and tighter control.
  • Depth of Content – With significant upgrades in nearly every aspect of the game, both on and off the court, NBA 2K14 boasts more animation content than any previous basketball title, and includes more than 3000 new animations.

General Gameplay Improvements:
  • Signature Skills – Six new Signature Skills, ensuring each NBA player’s unique abilities are represented in the most authentic way possible.
  • Playbook and Play System enhancements – The deepest and most authentic playbook gets even deeper. Execute new half-court sets, experience improved spacing logic, and run updated team specific plays.
  • More Signature Styles - New jump shots, dunk and layup packages, dribble moves, free throws, pre-game intros, getbacks, celebrations and more.

Offensive Control Improvements:
  • Shot System Upgrades – More realistic footwork on jump shots, improved awareness in shot selection, and a variety of new shot types. Whether you use the new intuitive Pro Stick™ or the enhanced Smart Shot Button, attacking the rim is now more exciting than ever.
  • Dribbling Advancements - Upgraded dribble movement and new branching technology give you much greater 1-to-1 control over the ball handler.
  • Enhanced Passing – More accurate pass targeting, new give and go mechanics, better handoffs, and an entire arsenal of new flashy passes.

Defensive Improvements:
  • Learning Defensive A.I. – Test your skills even further with new defensive AI that sees where the offense is being successful and adjusts strategy to take those advantages away.
  • Block Improvements – The block system has been completely revamped for NBA 2K14 with improved ball targeting and awareness, more realistic physics, and more responsive control. All new player collisions, the ability to block dunks, and more appropriate shot contests make playing defense much more fun and rewarding.
  • All New Ball Denial - No more getting stuck during off ball bumps and ball denial, allowing for complete freedom of control over your players away from the ball.
  • Enhanced dribbler vs. on-ball defender contact - Defenders can now initiate steals, hard bumps, and charges out of defensive rides, making locking up players on defense a much more engaging experience.
  • Expanded Defensive Commands – New commands using the right stick: including contesting shots, contesting passes, and denying or pressuring the ball.

Returning Features Include:
  • MyCAREER
  • The Association
  • The Association: Online
  • Training Camp
  • Season
  • Playoffs
  • Practice
  • NBA Blacktop
  • MyPLAYER Blacktop
  • Team Up
The NBA 2K14 King James Bonus Pack offers exclusive content featuring LeBron James. Customers who pre-order NBA 2K14 for the Xbox 360® games and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system will receive the following:
  • 10,000 Virtual Currency to get a jump start on the competition;
  • Extra content for the new Path to Greatness mode;
  • LeBron James unlocked in Blacktop Mode;
  • The all-new LeBron James Signature Skill available for your MyPlayer.
NBA 2K14 arrives in stores on October 1st for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Xbox One and PS4 versions arrive in November.

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Member Comments
# 81 yungsta404 @ 08/15/13 12:11 AM
when it says new player collision. I think of new canned contact animations that are added every year. I dont think of improved physics or collision detection.
 
# 82 mlp111 @ 08/15/13 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by BEasy20
Dynamic Living Rosters® powered by Stats, Inc. - Player attributes and tendencies automatically update daily to reflect true life hot and cold streaks. Now, each game played in the NBA can have an effect on your game.

Most important feature to me. Hopefully they keep up with it all year
that's a nice counter to EA use of synergy sports...
 
# 83 kjjnesb @ 08/15/13 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Caveman24
Well association guys we lost again.
Very disappointing... Maybe next gen or 2K15 then..
 
# 84 stillfeelme @ 08/15/13 12:20 AM
This game is going to move some units... I am glad they attempted to address most of the gameplay issues. If it plays as balanced as it sounds we might have an epic game. It seems like it will be a deep game where you will have to learn plenty for us Sim heads but a few casual friendly options that should play realistically.

Hard to say which is the best feature but it looks like the defensive improvements will separate a good player from a great player.
 
# 85 mlp111 @ 08/15/13 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by HakeemOlajuwon
WTF seriously !?
No Crew , No My Team
I'm willing to bet that No crew, no My Team was directed in the are of PC gamers for this current gen. It would be crazy of them to leave those modes from the next-gen version. I do believe 2k has something special in the works for next-gen, it would be foolish of them to release anything next-gen specific at the moment being that their competitor is also on next-gen and has release much info at the moment. Lets just sit back and wait guys!
 
# 86 jersez @ 08/15/13 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by yungsta404
when it says new player collision. I think of new canned contact animations that are added every year. I dont think of improved physics or collision detection.
That may be the case for current gen, next gen might, just might receive some type of physics system. I'm assuming.
 
# 87 skillz773 @ 08/15/13 12:28 AM
Now if you could just split the defense off the pick and roll I'd be satisfied.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2
 
# 88 Rockie_Fresh88 @ 08/15/13 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Melbournelad
Really? 10char
A lot of people asked for crew, better player movement, foot planting, more my team modes, euroleague teams , dynamic updates .

I jumped the gun but it seems from what I read they implemented what a lot of people asked for .
 
# 89 jersez @ 08/15/13 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by skillz773
Now if you could just split the defense off the pick and roll I'd be satisfied.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2
Pick and roll game is a totally mess, I agree I want to be able to split a pick, but I also want to be able to fight over screens realistically, use the hedge to set a jumper up, be able to use the pick to set a crossover up, being able to choose who sets the pick, or where I want the pick....... I can go on and on I'll shut up now.
 
# 90 LakersForLife @ 08/15/13 12:45 AM
WAIT only current gen?! So it won't be on ps4?!
 
# 91 Melbournelad @ 08/15/13 12:45 AM
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Originally Posted by mars5541
A lot of people asked for crew, better player movement, foot planting, more my team modes, euroleague teams , dynamic updates .

I jumped the gun but it seems from what I read they implemented what a lot of people asked for .
True but alot of people also asked for any semblance of attention for association. Which has numerous basic issues that would not take long for 2k to fix. Also the euro league teams are pretty much useless if they are not implemented into a game mode.

I mean it has been literally 5 years with not a single effort by 2k to improve the issues in association. If they haven't done so this year that is ridiculous.
 
# 92 Slava Medvadenko @ 08/15/13 12:56 AM
Just read this now. This is the type of news that get me excited. So much stuff in here sounds promising. Lets see:

Pro Stick: Intriguing. Need more info. I like how they describe it as "intuitive". Throwing no look passes on command is very welcome.
2K Smart Play Button: Nice addition. If this works well I'll be using this a lot.
Improved Player Motion System: Player movement is an emphasis this year, so much so that it is a bullet point. Man, I have been posting about player movement for years and am glad to see this. "Explosive cuts"? "Tighter control"? Can't wait to see how this plays in the game.
Playbook and Play System enhancements: More plays is always good, but "improved spacing logic" is essential. Hopefully will be on par or better than 2k11's spacing. "Team specific plays" is nice as well.
Shot System Upgrades: "Realistic footwork on jump shots". "Improved awareness in shot selection". Hopefully we will be able to pull off the type of jumper animations we intend to every time.
Dribbling Advancements: I'm intrigued by "new branching technology". Maybe dribbling will be more fluid. Right stick dribbling is something that has the potential to go further.
Enhanced Passing: Personally, this is the thing I want improved. I've been posting about the passing for years. To me, it is such a fundamental part of basketball that has been handled poorly in 2k for far too long. I like how it's improvement is emphasized in a bullet point. "More accurate pass targeting" hopefully means we can use the pass button and directional passing safely and no longer have to use position passing unless we want to. "Better handoffs" is good. Handoffs should screw up much less than they do in 2k. I mean, its a handoff. Can we have an overhead pass control, though? Is the passing speed/in-air speed/catching logic/passing animation logic better?
Learning Defensive A.I.: If this works well, it'll add a lot of variety in the game. Maybe we won't be able to use the same strategies over and over, and have to do other things. Difficulty could be more organic and not just about boosting the cpu's attributes. Will the help defense be better?
Block Improvements: We knew about this, but I am intrigued by "more realistic physics" and "new player collisions". Blocking dunks is great, but we aren't going to block every dunk. Maybe better physics and collisions mean that we could impede the dunker on a block attempt and affect his momentum or force him into a layup if we don't get the block. I also like "more responsive control". Maybe there won't be a long delay between pressing block and our guy jumping anymore.
All New Ball Denial: "No more getting stuck during off ball bumps and ball denial". It was always annoying waiting for bumps and ball denial animations to end. It just stymied player movement even more. Good that we can break out of them sooner.
Enhanced dribbler vs. on-ball defender contact: Very much needed. Hopefully now on ball D can be more skill based and we can lock people up with a Tony Allen-type. Maybe "hard bumps" could mean we can affect spins and direction changes more.

Overall, this all sounds great on paper(or monitor) so we'll still have to see how this all plays out in the game. If anything, these bullet points do show me that 2k has paid attention to some nitty-gritty fundamental things like player movement, spacing, defense and passing. Of course, this all sounds good now without experiencing the game yet, but its very promising that these things are featured as key improvements. Now I need news on MyCareer and Association, which are both coming up.
 
# 93 cream6 @ 08/15/13 01:01 AM
I see we can't control multiple teams in association mode. Madden at least got it right.
 
# 94 LILNICB15 @ 08/15/13 01:10 AM
Well I'm excited... And a bit disappointed that MyTeam is current gen only... I mean I went 12 years without it I guess I can go one more. Hopefully this changes but oh well.
 
# 95 Phreezy P @ 08/15/13 01:18 AM
Wait, why is MyTeam current gen only? That's just silly.
 
# 96 nba2012 @ 08/15/13 02:11 AM
What about the All-Star Weekend events? Is that not returning for NBA 2K14?
 
# 97 JerzeyReign @ 08/15/13 02:15 AM
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Originally Posted by nba2012
What about the All-Star Weekend events? Is that not returning for NBA 2K14?
If that achievement yesterday is the official one - and it looks like it - ASW is still in.
 
# 98 thedream2k13 @ 08/15/13 02:21 AM
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Originally Posted by airaron32
Wait, why is MyTeam current gen only? That's just silly.
Current Gen only - not on PC
 
# 99 Arod2k9 @ 08/15/13 02:28 AM
The European teams is a must get, I pre-ordered already for the 360. Real Madrid yessssssss
 
# 100 Tybudd @ 08/15/13 02:41 AM
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Originally Posted by LD2k
Can't wait to share more details about the gameplay.
Honestly, I'd advise you not to, after all why you need the stress, just tell us now, and get it off of your chest
 


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