After I read the reviews here, I thought to myself after a few days playing time also to write a. At the end you see a conclusion, then you need not read everything, respect there are SPOILERS in my career.
U.ä First to my hardware .:
OS: Windows 8 64 bit
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 840
RAM: 16 GB DDR3
GPU: XFX Radeon HD 6870
SSD: Has more than 75 GB of free storage
HDD: Has more free space
Input: XBox Controller
Internet: 50000 kbit / s downstream
Installation:
After registering on Steam and you enter the purchased codes I was asked where I want to install NBA2k15. Specially I have freed more than 75 GB on my SSD. Says on the box that the game requires 50 GB or more [free] space. By about three hours (several days failed) was the download completed, and installation began, However, this collapsed due to lack of storage space again. I always thought, it is true: 75> 50, but wrong apparently. Unfortunately I did not found out how I can easily move to the other hard drive the game, so I again had to download three hours. I find that quite annoying.
The rest of the installation went smoothly.
The game:
The game will start after prolonged charging the main menu, no intro, told in the Durant something, I would find unnecessary. The Home window viewing looks tidier, a big TV, is entitled 2KTV and seven smaller selectable fields: My league; My GM; NBA News; 2KTV; My Career - My Park; My team; Functions - Options.
My League:
This mode is like before my league, one looked after one or more teams, trying to win the championship. In this mode, I have not played a game, so I can write nothing definite. It is interesting that there are more adjustment knob for this mode. So you can not just set the difficulty of the games, but also the difficulty in trade negotiations, contract negotiations, moral difficulty or their impact, the Draft vintage quality that players develop speed and the like.
During training you can physically for the factors and tactical fundamentals set the focus and the relationship. An automatic pause after or before two games in succession is adjustable.
The trades I can trade the picks by 2018 in 2014, very much welcome this change.
The allocation of minutes you can adjust specific team and the matchups and which players you want most scoring, etc.). Furthermore, you get this a scouting advice eg for me, Give Alan Anderson minutes
More options I think basically good :)
My GM:
This mode is a verbessterter My League mode. Here you choose from a team to control. Only one has certain tasks that you have to fulfill, these arise from a conversation with the team owner. I have the requirements (with the Nets). I want to continue to rebuild and get through a Trade a Erstrundenpick, we make our fans home proud. Win at least 20 home games .. And two requests, for example, should I trade Teletovic for a new talent.
As GM can rise Level, then plaques are unlocked, you can buy (eg: 1% more viewers). One can also buy a team. You can adjust the pricing for the box office, merchandising and food vendors. It will be appreciated, were sold of which how many players jerseys.
NBA Today:
Here you can play a quick game, play online, play Blacktop etc. Incidentally located in this menu item also 2KU, here you can watch training videos. In eight videos of the game Kevon Durant is explained. A tutorial no longer exists, I am sorry.
2KTV:
It says NBA 2KTV is currently unavailable. Please try again later., Apparently one is there to look 2KTV later.
My Career - My Park:
My favorite mode :) This time, there's even a story, who would not know beforehand starters, should skip this section.
First you have to create a player as ever. Meanwhile, there are more customization options. Adjustable is not only the size but also the arm length, etc. There is nothing specific game, eg: if you want to be an all or a PG fit speziallisierter PG.
What I am sad is that my real name is apparently an insult and was not accepted by 2K ...
This year, it does not begin with the fact that a game played before the Draft with other rookies, instead you sit at home and pursued in the TV Draft of 2014. Having been not drafted, one is mad at his manager. After about half the season, however, this sample training organized in different teams.
One chooses one of I think 20 teams and goes to training with them. One has to reach to the bank to get out of this team a 10-day contract a specific player rating rating in the game starting five. The better a team is, and the easier it is busy on its own position, the more difficult it is to get such an agreement is.
If the player upgrade will notice that you can not individually improve the parameters, there are six groups: Jump Shooter, Scorer Inside, athlete, playmaker, rebounder, defender. I upgrade as rebounder, I get +2 on blocking out and Offensive Rebound and +3 on defensive rebound. These types of upgrades actually makes more sense and you do not have to deal with it as long, however, the own players differ in less of one another.
During the games sometimes gives specific instructions from coach eg: run Fastbreak or put thrower under pressure. For players standings is thus added the coach satisfaction. Annoying is that the statement is sometimes poor. When my team was back, there was the statement the time to play down, that can be a lot of time up front and take only prudent throws. I would have played there rather quickly.
Before and after the matches often occur dialogues with other players, once I was also at the press conference or to talk to the Trainier, college coaches, PR consultants, etc. Nicely done, even if a lot has been repeated. Once there was even video analysis of another game where the coach wanted to make clear how we should play.
After 14 games, I'm (73 votes) ascended with the Magic as a Two-Way Point in the starting five. Was funny that I got to the first game had a playing time of 46 minutes Dennis Schroder, the backup PG (Score 70) was sitting almost on the bench. In the second game I played consistently until the fourth quarter. In this I was only on the bench. Somehow unrealistic.
With your own player, you can also go into My Park. There you have one opportunity to choose one of three parks, there are two 2 on 2 Half Courts and six 3 on 3 Full Courts, where you can play with other players online. The games go to 15 points, you simply arises in certain fields to play and hopes other added. If you win games, the own reputation, which you get new animations or can travel in opposing parks to challenge the players there rises. If I find a cool idea, to the early days, there were always problems with the server, but now it works quite well.
MyTeam:
This is the card game mode. By map packs you collect different players and can thus put together a team. With this team you have different challenges to master (certain games win) or play online against other players. There is also an auction house, where you can buy basketball players from other players. I have only 28 of 1289 cards.
Options - Features:
The settings can be changed. One can otherwise prove, I believe that was in previous NBA 2K parts impossible, but may be wrong its controller. The video settings you can change here. The settings I have changed here and set lower, at the default setting, it has sometimes wiggled a bit, not bad, but I prefer a smooth gaming. But even on low it still looks better than NBA2k13.
Game:
The game now resembles more a real basketball game. Before the game, sometimes talking Shaq on the team, the animations have become more realistic. The controller has been surprisingly little has changed. A couple of changes but there are, but I have played on the Xbox360 the tutorial, which is why it was no problem for me. Somehow, the game has become more difficult, especially the defense sucks. The players start very slowly move in. With Intense Defence + Sprint to get often not keep up. Offensive Fouls are awarded less frequently outside the three-point line, I was repeatedly knocked down without impact ('m also fall, but no flop) and was previously longer on this point. For illegal block are caught more frequently. The passes go sometimes to a teammate, which you did not want to adjust. Incomprehensible if just running a play because the game would have to know to whom I want to fit and not by the whole zone.
In my opinion, it is more difficult to play in the post. The most points I make by layup or dunk (just go through), in older games were either three or snail mail. Here I meet no less of three, the opponents. The defenders of my team that's usually not care even after three three-pointers in succession, players move away from the shooter when I switch to a different player.
The other players score in my career is sometimes unfair. It's blocking the thrower catches the ball, a total of which was negative, because it has allowed the rebound
Players are to become more like their rating. Lebron James has a 98, Kevin Durant a 95. Many players are between 70 and 80, but they differ more than before. On the one hand there are more verscheidene ratings, for example: three of movement, middle distance throw from motion, throw-IQ, Pass-IQ, pick-and-roll defense IQ, pass perception, and so on by the players behave differently.
In addition, plaques have been added instead of the Signature Skills. James has 47 such plaques, for example: Acrobat on stage gold, which he can change his throw in the air better, but there are also mental plaques, eg hardy, so it makes despite fatigue or injury without significant restrictions.
In one's career you get those plaques through the game, or the dialogues. I have seven plaques, for example: all-size: Will absolutely one of the greatest players of all time. What is the exact implications of that, I do not know.
Additionally, players have a more accurate physical health. For Dirk Nowitzki (85 rating) are more likely to hurt his shoulders, knees or ankles. If Rajon Rondo, the risk of injury in his right knee is particularly high.
VC:
Somebody complains, you have to pay too much money to achieve something with his players. Instead ability points exist throughout the game VCs (Virtual Credit). This one gets for his salary as GM (me 825 VC for a lost game, 925 for winning), in the park you get a win about 200 VCs, for a normal game with my own players I get (in difficulty Superstar and a contract with less than one million per year) between 700 and 900 VCs (depends on many factors), actually you get the most for each mode.
With these points you can improve his players, buy clothes, buy a team in GM mode maps in MyTeam buy etc. For comparison, to get from level 3 to level 20 rebound, I need for my PG 20100 VC.
It definitely comes from, without having to buy for real money VC. If you have a smartphone, you can still download from the PlayStore MyNBA2k15, there you can earn during the day and additionally about lots daily even 300 without too much effort for fast games 500 VC - get 2400 VC.
Conclusion:
+ Best (basketball) game on the market
+ Finally NextGen on PC
+ Presentation is super
+ Better graphics (Check out videos)
+ More options in any game mode
+ More realistic career
+ VC (I think it's good)
+ - Music (I like it any less than the last part)
-75 GB of free space have not been enough (is worth it to me almost a star)
-My Name is an insult (I do not really matter)
-defense's Kind of funny (helpless against players who draw both, may as well throw)
-längere load times (not too bad)
-Mitspielerwertung Is sometimes annoying and player acquisition (pick and roll)
So who has fallen NBA2K14 who should buy this game, but the tutorial videos Watch the game to control :) If you experience any issues, please write in the comments, I'll try to answer. While you do not like something on my review, it would be nice to mention it in the comments, I could change there. Should I still think of something, I'll change it.
Otherwise, I am happy if you could mark the review as useful :)
Update 22/12/2014: In the meantime, some time has passed since my review, now I have several hours of playing time behind me.
My system has also changed:
CPU: AMD FX6300
GPU: GTX 660 Ti OC
RAM: Only 8GB
The game now could be installed on my 64GB SSD.
-> The game is so liquid on medium settings, when I put everything on maximum, it shakes from time to time. However, everything loads much faster, which I initially wanted to give the game 5 stars.
Then I wanted to give the game three stars because "my career" is always crashed at the dunk contest. This could be somehow but resolve. The support I have send two different requests. Once the answers have used 23 days and again 17 days. I'm sorry, but that is unacceptable, especially in my question to the dunk contest. But the best were the answers: "Just to be sure are you silent thesis having issues" and this answer I got twice. I have not replied, because the problem no longer existed or in the other case I was no longer interested. But what I would have answered it? Would I have to wait 20 days until the Support asks if my mistakes are still available?
Later, a patch came out, I was to give the verge of the game 5 stars. Many issues have been resolved (including the final crash when Dunk Contest). The park was stable, the gameplay has improved.
Ultimately, however, I prefer the game today a star of my first review.
The main reason: Any patch lets the game now often freeze usually in half-time or after the final whistle. This is quite annoying. Game 4 in the playoffs, I have now played four times. Then I simulated it, because I thought maybe just the break. In Game 5 back in a crash during half-time. Then I played MyTeam crash during a timeout in the fourth quarter. The support I have no desire to write, perhaps creating the developers the game time to patch so that it functions normally, preceded the indeed.
Other points of criticism:
Since the last major patch there is less contact dunks, which is fundamentally good. But the players meet much less in distress under the basket, which sometimes does not make sense. My 2.21 meters big score the offensive rebound and stands alone under the basket. Behind him is Ty Lawson (1.80m point guard). Because he is at my back, my players leads (with a 95 rating at Dunk and lay-out of the stand) a lay-out and missed him. This is no one-time thing. Why he dunkt rare when an opposing player is BEHIND him? And why he missed so often a layup when a small player is next to him?
The defense has improved, it is not satisfactory, however. The players have all apparently sticky back: My Center defended the low post. At the three-point line, the opposing point guard is past his opponent. Now I move the stick away from the low post and hit Sprint in order to drive the point guards to hinder and to adapt it to force. What happens? Nothing. My players will have a few seconds in the low post. Then he decides times very slowly from the low post move away. Of course, far too late.
Blocking itself has become very strange. In NBA 2k14 I could without major problems smaller players block if they threw in front of me. In NBA 2K15, the player considered by pressing the Y button yet, what to do. Sometimes he runs a few more steps and then jump. So come to my reaction time or response time of the game to. The "Best" is that the players sometimes jumps twice. If you press the Y button repeatedly (because the player does not respond), the player skips sometime high lands again, begins again to think and jumps back. Unfortunately, this is sometimes even happened when I pressed only once.
This whole inertia anyway shit. I press the X button to Steal. My player runs against your opponent, then an animation is played, and only then he throws the Stealversuch, usually either in the air or in the back -> Faul
Rotation in defense is sometimes big crap. I defend a player. Suddenly a player comes from the other side of the field started, because I have a larger gap to the opponent (makes most sense in a center who can not throw 3), the attacker now fits to the vacated player. My arrow changes to the ball leader, if he is already on the cast.
Sometimes my arrow changes to another attacker. I run to him, during the running of the defending player to change it to the front. I walk back, but that is too late.
And if you touch someone in the defense, the speed can quickly drop to 0 -> almost always point to the opponent because the acceleration is a joke, even with a rating of 95th
So continue to exist as long as the crashes, the rating remains first at 3 stars, maybe I lower them soon on when adding further error.
Update 2: Meanwhile, the game runs smoothly again. The dim-witted AI annoys me in some situations anyway.
