60 € for a Roster Update ...

60 € for a Roster Update ...

NBA 2K15 - [Xbox 360] (Video Game)

Customer Review

Preface: First, let me say that this is the first review I write. Since me the current NBA 2k version but so frustrated, I decided nevertheless to write a. I'm a fan of the series since NBA 2k03, then still with Allen Iverson on the cover. Except for NBA 2k14 I have every year the new edition brought and rejoiced like a little kid. NBA 2K is simply the best basketball simulation on the market. Because I have NBA 2k14 skipped, I could hardly wait for the new version and have paid directly the day of publication of the full price. Let only the fingers of NBA Live. EA has not stopped the number for no reason and would have been better to leave it at that. But now to my analysis.

Graphics / menu / presentation: As I said, I have skipped the previous version, so I'm jumping from 2k13 to 2K15. On the cover, this time Kevin Durant and Lebron James no longer or Michael Jordan. That was it but also already with the innovations. The graphics in the game is absolutely the same thing can cope, as it is in order and is simply no longer rauszuholen from the Xbox 360. The menu looks just the same, which is also in order because everything is built beautifully uncluttered and can be found easily. So much for the appearance.

Game Modes: There are also no significant changes. There are the well-known modes: MyAssociation, MyCarreer, Streeball in the park, playoff or Quick Games. All already known. There is a new Legend mode, but with whom I am personally not interested. My frustration begins then in Career Mode. That was about the last years always very interesting and the hobbyhorse of NBA 2K. Everything announced enhancements and new features, there are consoles only for the Next Gen. Means that the career mode is absolutely identical and also looks like in recent years. In the beginning there is a Rookie Showcase on the ultimately one's own position is determined in the following Draft Draft interviews. Here already appeared on the same error as in recent years. The draft refers to and so are also all the players drafted in the real NBA Draft at their real positions. Until you even drafted will. Oddly located namely the rookie who was drafted in real in your place anyway in the team. As if that team could therefore pod judge at one point 2 player. Completely unrealistic and place for years already so held. 2k it has not always managed to keep the Draft reasonably realistic. Instead, the real draft is blind showed what makes the atmosphere in the game is pretty broken. In the mode itself then everything is the same. Gm Talks, attribute distribution, Signature Skills and rotation. What, however, I noticed the best players in the rotation is not relevant even though they are fit. I have a career as a center for the Denver Nuggets and there play JJ Hickson and JaVale McGee one minute even though they are not fit and some of the best big men in the team. Even a conversation with the GM has not changed. The same problem I have with my point guard career with the New York Knicks. There Tim Hardaway JR is simply ignored completely.
In Association mode and everything is as before. There is, however, in order, as this mode has been done well in recent years. But unfortunately layoffs and reasonably realistic change as GM to another franchise still missing.

AI / CPU / Gameplay: Now I come to the actual point of my frustration: The KI. It is just as stupid as before. Defensive you have to defend all five positions, because the players can own their opponent every time open. The perimeter defense is the same as the zone defense an absolute joke. In the offense, they can open litters are, no matter what kind of values ​​they have, or sprint forward, the shot clock can walk down and take a wild threesome from the half field, or dribble against three people, then take a throw which is naturally blocked or just lose the ball. As long as you do not so as point guard runs the game, the players turn the wheel completely and even make their own teammates as mentioned open litters simply lying. These issues were already the last few years and it has not changed. This could, however, still be alive if it were not completely different on the opposite side. The CPU is just clutch. They meet almost everything against several opponents, but have often mentioned as not even an opponent in front of or too much space.
The solution to the problem would be the Associationmodus, since one controls all players themselves there. Unfortunately I was wrong. Here, there is indeed rather the chance to tear something, but one can also here only control one player at a time which means that the other players have their opponent open and you can not change fast enough to bring them back into position , Frustration pur.
The control was not changed. For beginners this is quite complicated. However, to get in quickly and are well distributed to the controller, the individual moves.

Online / Multiplayer: To stop my frustration, I thought so, we try the online modes, since one gambles with other people there and thus the annoying CPU and AI has not. Unfortunately I was wrong. The delays between what you do on the controller and the what refers to the screen are just a joke. So it is virtually indefensible able to opponent, because everything happens later than that you do it actually. At first I thought that it is because of my connection. However, as other sports simulations like FIFA 15 or shooters like Borderlands run correctly, but I have googled and found out that I'm not the only one who has the problem.

Conclusion: I am very disappointed. All announced changes apply only to the Next Gen series. Was hinhegen for the Xbox 360 just 2k14 (more 2k13, 2k14 can not judge) taken and repackaged. As a gamer, I'm so used only by EA, which now concerns it NBA 2K makes me all the sadder. For all newcomers who pick up the first time a basketball simulation, NBA 2K15 is perfectly okay. It is simply the best basketball simulation on the market. For longtime fans, however, NBA 2K15 is a complete disappointment. Who wants serious changes should purchase a PS4 or Xbox One. For me it was definitely the last part I've bought for 360.

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