NBA 2K11 Wins Sports Game of the Year from GT

[JaoSming]

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/best- ... the/708591


There really were a lot of good sports games this year, I kinda forgot that.

[Andrew]

It seems to be everyone's Sports Game or Team Sports Game of the Year, at least in the gaming media.

[prodnus]

It's my Game of the Year even though online is totally broken.

[Andrew]

I'm not a big online player so I can live with that too, though I'm looking forward to the official update for the Association fixes.

[fjccommish]

MLB 10 is the game of the year.

NBA 2K11 had a lot of good ideas and features, that if executed correctly, would have made it the game of the year. But the features were not executed.

It's amazing to play as Jordan against the Lakers in that first championship series. That is until you realize the Lakers never use their bench players and neither team runs plays.

Reviewers don't play beyond a cursory glance, however. They don't realize that half way through a Jordan challenge game the little problems add up to destroy suspension of disbelief.

MLB 10 isn't perfect, but the modes it has are well executed and the baseball game it plays is a better experience baseball-wise than the basketball game 2K11 plays is basketball-wise.

The game the Czar described was amazing. But the way the game plays with teams not running all those plays, and not changing up (making decisions) who to guard or what option to take away, doesn't live up to that hype. The game the Czar described is game of the year. The actual game is very good, but not game of the year.

[JaoSming]

they run plays against me, and yea it sucks about the bench players but there wasnt much that could be done about that officially.

[Houndy]

Try Association.

[fjccommish]

They could have put in dummy name players with bench-like stats. That's better than starters playing the whole game.

That omission makes the Jordan feature incomplete. That is, unless people think playing against the Lakers and other teams with only their starters is realistic, or even fun.

[JaoSming]

That is, unless people think playing against the Lakers and other teams with only their starters is realistic, or even fun.

Which I, Reviewers, and probably 80% of the people who bought 2K11 and immediately put it on Casual Sliders, like me.

[fjccommish]

80% of people enjoy playing against only the starters, with the user team bench guys playing, in the Jordan mode?

Doubtful.

[JaoSming]

its called manual subs, nevermind that we can edit those teams to the user's liking or download through 2k share.