Kenny "The Jet" Smith has joined Shaquille O'Neal and Ernie Johnson in the NBA 2K16 pre-game, halftime and post-game shows. Check out the video here and post your thoughts!
This is simply amazing. I spent the whole time watching the video with an ear-to-ear grin. The lip sync is fantastic, the body movements and gestures (Shaq's goofiness and Kenny's mannerisms) are superb and the likenesses are damn near photo realistic. On top of that, the actual content and variety of the conversations is rich and diverse. I have never seen something like this in a video game! It felt like all three guys were really sitting next to each other and interacting. I'd already preordered and paid off the MJ version of the game, but if I could I'd throw more money at 2K right now!
Eeeeeee thats dope. 2k going in. Looks amazing makes you feel as if u watching nba on tnt. Keep up the good work....p.s. please fix iverson's face so i can run with the sixers lol
In arena broadcast during the playoffs! After a 82 game season the playoffs will be so much fun to play game by game. I hope they do gone fishing on elimination games. 2k just pushed the presentation bar
So happy to see The Jet back in the game. Kenny Smith is definitely one of my favorite people in the NBA family. Was hoping he'd be on commentary, though.
I'm going to give everyone a thumbs up in this thread.
I'm so freaking elated. Also notice how their outfits change as well. They're not always wearing the same outfit. Nice little touch. Also love the fact the camera was pulled back a little during the halftime highlights and postgame highlights. NBA2k14's halftime camera angle were a little too close.
This. Is. 2k. Sports. NBA2k.
Noticed the outfit change too. Thought that was a nice detail to add to the believability of the presentation.
Can't wait to see what else they have for us in the presentation department. This is a great start.
I'd still love to see a return of the nightly/weekly highlights they had back in the NFL 2k5 franchise mode. It would be great to see a "highlight from around the league" feature to give the feeling that those simulated could gamed in a season/franchise mode are actually taking place.
I really hope to see at least the half-time show in MyCareer; not getting my hopes up but for consistency I hope it all is there.
I would like to see it in MP but it's supposed to be a personalized experience... meaning I doubt that NBA players IRL watch halftime and or post/pre game shows. It would be a nice option but I think that's what they're saying when they don't have that type of presentation in the MYPLAYER experience.
Woke up and saw Kenny Smith is in 2k pre game, HALFTIME and POSTGAME i nearly passed out, 2k how do you do it? With Shaq and Ernie, we're all going to need hardhats from all these mic drops haha.
Sidenote, I think I prefer 2K's virtual Shaquille O'Neal with the stunted puppet movements to the one in real life, who seems to try too hard. All his lines comes across wonderfully deadpan in 2K, with that dead stare and robot movements. It's kind of perfect.
2k is really crapping on these other sports gaming companies that always say we will have this or that in the game next year, with all the new additions in this game I was thinking in the back of my mind ok something has to be missing, or taken out but it seems I was wrong in that thinking, 2k has set the bar and has really made me look at other sports gaming companies with a stale face as to what do they really do all year.
Back on subject though, I like that in each segment each person had on a different suit or tie, or in Ernie's case bow tie, little details like that go a long way.