Pdub wrote:I wouldn't be so sure about that. Every game I play is pretty much limited to inside scoring and a few 3 pointers by the cpu ai. Tinkering with sliders helps a little bit, but they took out the really effective sliders that stop every player from being a playmaker and dishing those quick passes to cutters. Increasing the "play passing lanes" slider doesn't seem to do much for the team I am controlling but it does help the cpu deflect my passes.
Many people say the defense has improved, and I guess getting your passes picked off and most of your layups blocked consistutes as improved. Did it improve for the cpu players on a users team? Not in my experience if you read the above paragraph. When a pick and roll happens, a third defender is supposed to step over and fill the lane to guard against the pass. This doesn't happen in 2k9. What does happen? Weird defensive switching.
Many of the animations are slow, half-ass and boring, like they are playing a scrimmage exhibition game. The only intense shot animations seem to be collision animations, a few layups, and dunks. A few of the post moves look like players are just going through the motions rather then looking like they are trying to make a shot.
I'm trying to run plays in 2k9. They take way too long to start and if you do not stick specifically with the play, the diagram will cut off. In 2k8 you could stray away from the diagram a bit and then get to the point you were supposed to get to advance the next part of the play. Off ball cpu players are dumb and don't know that there are other players in their way and they can't just walk through them. They are the screen for you to get open, so go around stupid. They just sort of walk into the screen sometimes and eventually something tells them to turn and go around, but by the time that happens, the play is pretty much dead.
My biggest gripe with the game is the same with most of the next generation basketball games. The control. Trying to make the game as smoothly animated as possibly has been resulting in less control from a user. While it's something everyone can get used to after learning the ins and outs of the animations, I would rather be able to break out of every(or at least the most important) animation instead of having my next controller action being "queued" until the current animation finishes, and finally being played out, usually after I have changed my mind on what I want to do.
I can honestly say that I haven't had much fun with this game, even when I am winning. Was I expecting too much? Is it the years of picking apart the flaws in NBA Live carrying over to the 2k series? I only need two issues fixed, shot selection and assist to field goal ratio. I am sure fixing the shot selection will fix the assist ratio. I can deal with the lack of off ball defense by playing off the ball, myself.
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Well that might have sealed the deal for 2K, unless you can state some redeeming features and why I should get Live and not 2K.
JWL3 wrote:EA can only screw it's consumers so many years in a row before we tell them to kiss my **** ass. I'm never going back to EA even if they hand the game out next year.
Sit, there is no issue with cameras. It's the crowd. The crowd is so highly detailed and animated that whenever a camera has a high amount of crowd displayed that the framerate drops. I am talking like 10-15 fps here, really bad. It happens during the first of two freethrows, cutscenes, any wide stadium shots, an any gameplay camera that shows alot of crowd. Most of the press-like angles don't show much of the crowd so they dont' have the problem.
Sit wrote:when I get that new 46 Sony Bravia, It will hopefully be awesome.
Cyrus wrote:I played it on ps2 and I can say that it is no diferent than 2k7 (I didn't play 2k8)...only diference is few new dunks and that's it ...
disapointed
waiting for PC release!!!
Jing wrote:Well bought it and it's been pretty good. However haven't been able to upload anything online due to the 2K Sports network being down or some dumb shit. Like I'm connected to the internet cause I been surfing the net and talking to people through PS3, but just can't connect to the 2K network, which is required to upload stuff.
Cyanide wrote:Congrats. I've been drooling for a HDTV for a while now.
arden_05 wrote:I mean it moved like Kobe, celebrated like Kobe he even got team mates involved!
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