Thoughts on NBA 2K11?

I seriously cannot think of another sports game that comes close to this game. NFL 2K5 is one, but NBA 2K11 feels like it is on another level. The intro is insane with Jordan in the tunnel getting ready to come out. The production value is something special. Extremely well-done. The Jordan Challenges are also really fun. I also love how each Jordan Challenge has some specially made commentary for each challenge. Great graphics, mindblowing production value, controls that aren't overly complicated, and some really insane gameplay make this game one of the greatest, if not the greatest, sports game I have ever played, and I have played many sports game in my life. What does the rest of the Gamespot community think?

Great, now you've made me more hyped for this game. I don't remember the last time I paid full-price for a sports game but I think I'm going to for this. JML897

Holy ****.

Sold. That gave me goosebumps.

Simply amazing!!
Picked up PC version (29$) and 360 version today! They are amazing!
The gameplay is perfect now! The defense is just perfect and that make shte gameplay so much better, you can actually play very good D now!
LOVE IT!

What else can I say? Best bball game ever, by a long shot, this is sim/realistic nba basketball and I love it!

picked it up at midnight. simply put, it's the best basketball in years!andyboiii

What system did you get it for dude?

If you got it on 360 or PC let me know and well do a few sim games up online 8)

Pacers vs Lakers? :)

Does NBA 2K11 have that option where you can create your own league and then have a draft and play a season and playoffs with your friends. Sorry, I forgot the name of this mode, but I believe it was in 2k10. It's almost like a fantasy league but you're actually playing.

Does NBA 2K11 have that option where you can create your own league and then have a draft and play a season and playoffs with your friends. Sorry, I forgot the name of this mode, but I believe it was in 2k10. It's almost like a fantasy league but you're actually playing.

Stuffed_Monkey

Fantasy Draft? I don't know about online, but you can definitely do offline fantasy drafts...I haven't really gone online yet so I wouldn't know.

I really love this game. It's amazing how much detail they put into the gameplay, and the animations are so realistic.

[QUOTE="Stuffed_Monkey"]

Does NBA 2K11 have that option where you can create your own league and then have a draft and play a season and playoffs with your friends. Sorry, I forgot the name of this mode, but I believe it was in 2k10. It's almost like a fantasy league but you're actually playing.

JML897

Fantasy Draft? I don't know about online, but you can definitely do offline fantasy drafts...I haven't really gone online yet so I wouldn't know.

I really love this game. It's amazing how much detail they put into the gameplay, and the animations are so realistic.

Just in case if anybody wants to buy the game online, go to newegg.com and type in the code EMCZYYS75- this would take 10 dollars off

so youll pay 49.99 instead of 59.99 ;)

[QUOTE="andyboiii"]picked it up at midnight. simply put, it's the best basketball in years!kozzy1234

What system did you get it for dude?

If you got it on 360 or PC let me know and well do a few sim games up online 8)

Pacers vs Lakers? :)

aw man I got it for PS3. I don't have a 360 anymore :(

would have loved playing against your pacers though, they're going to have a really good year.

I don't know where to start....

The fact that Jordan and the GREAT Bulls teams are in the game are great. The icing on the cake for me was seeing Payton and Kemp on the floor in those Supersonic jerseys!I finally feel like 2K Sports actually listened to us (gamers) this time. The only thing I can hope for next year (2K12) are more of the greatest teams. Hopefully this will be a reality. Till then I will enjoy one of the best BBall Sims ever created. I REALLY hope EA recognizes this, and gets there stuff together....

This game is just so amazing, the gameplay and defense has so much more depth this year, I am finally starting to really get good (;

My Franchise Draft looks like this:

PG: D.Collison

SG: Granger

SF: Durant

PF: Scola

C: Hibbert

Bench: Barea, Jason Richardson, Foster, Pryzbilla, Nick Collison and a few more.

Just loving how realisitic the gameplay is, no more ridicolous long passes all the time or dunks all the time, its so fun running plays and then playing defense, just love it.

This game is great! I do have to say though that I liked the Become Legendary demo more than the My Player on NBA 2K11. It's still fun, but I felt the setup on Become Legendary was better and it was more fun. Awesome game though!

Gamespot just put their review up and gave this an 8...maybe I'm being nitpicky but I think that's too low. NBA 2k9 got the same score and I'm so much more impressed with this than I was with NBA 2k9.

I have a feeling the guy who reviewed it isn't much of a basketball fan...the Jordan stuff "isn't much fun"? :? How can you watch the intro to this game the first time you start it up and think it's boring? I love how all of the old players actually play the way they used to play and having the announcers talk about the game like it's actually 1991/1998/whenever is a nice touch.

I'm not even sure how the Jordan stuff could be a complaint since it's not like they sacrificed anything else in the game to put it in. They made the rest of the game better and still included the Jordan thing as an extra. :|

Gamespot just put their review up and gave this an 8...maybe I'm being nitpicky but I think that's too low. NBA 2k9 got the same score and I'm so much more impressed with this than I was with NBA 2k9.

I have a feeling the guy who reviewed it isn't much of a basketball fan...the Jordan stuff "isn't much fun"? :? How can you watch the intro to this game the first time you start it up and think it's boring? I love how all of the old players actually play the way they used to play and having the announcers talk about the game like it's actually 1991/1998/whenever is a nice touch.

I'm not even sure how the Jordan stuff could be a complaint since it's not like they sacrificed anything else in the game to put it in. They made the rest of the game better and still included the Jordan thing as an extra. :|

gamespot has no credibility when it comes to reviewing sports games :lol:

Wow 8.0? WTF GAMESPOT. This game is AT LEAST a 9.0 to me

Gamespot just put their review up and gave this an 8...maybe I'm being nitpicky but I think that's too low. NBA 2k9 got the same score and I'm so much more impressed with this than I was with NBA 2k9.

I have a feeling the guy who reviewed it isn't much of a basketball fan...the Jordan stuff "isn't much fun"? :? How can you watch the intro to this game the first time you start it up and think it's boring? I love how all of the old players actually play the way they used to play and having the announcers talk about the game like it's actually 1991/1998/whenever is a nice touch.

I'm not even sure how the Jordan stuff could be a complaint since it's not like they sacrificed anything else in the game to put it in. They made the rest of the game better and still included the Jordan thing as an extra. :|

JML897

The Jordan Challenge alone is worth the price of admission. This game should of had a launch center, they didn't even put up a video review, this is why I pay for IGN and not Gamespot anymore, you have to question credibility. I guess 2K didn't give them any bribe money, like Eidos did, LOL.

Gamespot just put their review up and gave this an 8...maybe I'm being nitpicky but I think that's too low. NBA 2k9 got the same score and I'm so much more impressed with this than I was with NBA 2k9.

I have a feeling the guy who reviewed it isn't much of a basketball fan...the Jordan stuff "isn't much fun"? :? How can you watch the intro to this game the first time you start it up and think it's boring? I love how all of the old players actually play the way they used to play and having the announcers talk about the game like it's actually 1991/1998/whenever is a nice touch.

I'm not even sure how the Jordan stuff could be a complaint since it's not like they sacrificed anything else in the game to put it in. They made the rest of the game better and still included the Jordan thing as an extra. :|

Gamespot just put their review up and gave this an 8...maybe I'm being nitpicky but I think that's too low. NBA 2k9 got the same score and I'm so much more impressed with this than I was with NBA 2k9.

I have a feeling the guy who reviewed it isn't much of a basketball fan...the Jordan stuff "isn't much fun"? :? How can you watch the intro to this game the first time you start it up and think it's boring? I love how all of the old players actually play the way they used to play and having the announcers talk about the game like it's actually 1991/1998/whenever is a nice touch.

I'm not even sure how the Jordan stuff could be a complaint since it's not like they sacrificed anything else in the game to put it in. They made the rest of the game better and still included the Jordan thing as an extra. :|

[QUOTE="jfcundiff"][QUOTE="JML897"]

Gamespot just put their review up and gave this an 8...maybe I'm being nitpicky but I think that's too low. NBA 2k9 got the same score and I'm so much more impressed with this than I was with NBA 2k9.

I have a feeling the guy who reviewed it isn't much of a basketball fan...the Jordan stuff "isn't much fun"? :? How can you watch the intro to this game the first time you start it up and think it's boring? I love how all of the old players actually play the way they used to play and having the announcers talk about the game like it's actually 1991/1998/whenever is a nice touch.

I'm not even sure how the Jordan stuff could be a complaint since it's not like they sacrificed anything else in the game to put it in. They made the rest of the game better and still included the Jordan thing as an extra. :|

flowersjf

Truer words have never been uttered! I have never cared for Gamespot reviews and this is yet another example of why I take their reviews with a grain of salt.

[QUOTE="jfcundiff"][QUOTE="JML897"]

Gamespot just put their review up and gave this an 8...maybe I'm being nitpicky but I think that's too low. NBA 2k9 got the same score and I'm so much more impressed with this than I was with NBA 2k9.

I have a feeling the guy who reviewed it isn't much of a basketball fan...the Jordan stuff "isn't much fun"? :? How can you watch the intro to this game the first time you start it up and think it's boring? I love how all of the old players actually play the way they used to play and having the announcers talk about the game like it's actually 1991/1998/whenever is a nice touch.

I'm not even sure how the Jordan stuff could be a complaint since it's not like they sacrificed anything else in the game to put it in. They made the rest of the game better and still included the Jordan thing as an extra. :|

flowersjf

Lol you said Mario Galaxy 2 is a kiddie game... Its one of the greatest games ever made.

[QUOTE="jfcundiff"][QUOTE="JML897"]

Gamespot just put their review up and gave this an 8...maybe I'm being nitpicky but I think that's too low. NBA 2k9 got the same score and I'm so much more impressed with this than I was with NBA 2k9.

I have a feeling the guy who reviewed it isn't much of a basketball fan...the Jordan stuff "isn't much fun"? :? How can you watch the intro to this game the first time you start it up and think it's boring? I love how all of the old players actually play the way they used to play and having the announcers talk about the game like it's actually 1991/1998/whenever is a nice touch.

I'm not even sure how the Jordan stuff could be a complaint since it's not like they sacrificed anything else in the game to put it in. They made the rest of the game better and still included the Jordan thing as an extra. :|

flowersjf

SMG 2 is definitely worthy of a 10, no matter how kiddy you think it is. Just because they're mediocre when it comes to reviewing sports games doesn't mean it's the same when it comes to other genres.

[QUOTE="jfcundiff"][QUOTE="JML897"]

Gamespot just put their review up and gave this an 8...maybe I'm being nitpicky but I think that's too low. NBA 2k9 got the same score and I'm so much more impressed with this than I was with NBA 2k9.

I have a feeling the guy who reviewed it isn't much of a basketball fan...the Jordan stuff "isn't much fun"? :? How can you watch the intro to this game the first time you start it up and think it's boring? I love how all of the old players actually play the way they used to play and having the announcers talk about the game like it's actually 1991/1998/whenever is a nice touch.

I'm not even sure how the Jordan stuff could be a complaint since it's not like they sacrificed anything else in the game to put it in. They made the rest of the game better and still included the Jordan thing as an extra. :|

flowersjf

/facepalm...but thats for SW.

But anyways I'm thinking I really need to get this game :cry:

[QUOTE="flowersjf"][QUOTE="jfcundiff"] I laughed at the line of the Jordan's games not being much fun. Unless the guy isn't a b-ball fan, playing as MJ and replaying some of the most historic and iconic moments in NBA history is so much fun. That review is really sad. Liltorchic

Lol you said Mario Galaxy 2 is a kiddie game... Its one of the greatest games ever made.

[QUOTE="flowersjf"][QUOTE="jfcundiff"] I laughed at the line of the Jordan's games not being much fun. Unless the guy isn't a b-ball fan, playing as MJ and replaying some of the most historic and iconic moments in NBA history is so much fun. That review is really sad. SaintBlaze

SMG 2 is definitely worthy of a 10, no matter how kiddy you think it is. Just because they're mediocre when it comes to reviewing sports games doesn't mean it's the same when it comes to other genres.

That's the problem, most of the reviewers are mediocre on here. Maybe SMG 2 is the best game ever to you, but I just find it absurd that the person who reviewed the game said that "replaying Michael Jordan's best games isn't much fun". That's just my two cents.

outstanding,one of the best sports games ive ever played

I bet the only reason95% of people bought the game was because of jordan, so :lol: for saying jordan stuff isnt fun

I bet the only reason95% of people bought the game was because of jordan, so :lol: for saying jordan stuff isnt fun

realistic44

* raises hand* guilty as charged:lol:

i cant wait to play this game. i really hate my ps3 was stolen. have to wait until later this year to get 2k11 and all the other great games i been missing.

I bet the only reason95% of people bought the game was because of jordan, so :lol: for saying jordan stuff isnt fun

realistic44

this game was going to outsell NBA Elite with or without jordan and the quality of the game was going to be just as good. That gamespot review was the only review I've seen with someone saying the challenges with jordan wasn't fun. The Jordan challenges are great. The dude who did that review for GS probably isn't even a real basketball fan :lol:

Absolutely fantastic game, haven't had so much fun playing a basketball game since the NBA Street games.

Oh man I reaaaallly need to get this game :( How is the "My Player" mode? Where you train up and try to get into the NBA? Anybody tried it out?bobcheeseball

I have played it quite a bit and it's fun. If you liked last years you'll like this years My Player mode. I will say that just from the demo, I think Become Legendary is a better mode though. You don't start out as such a scrub (My Player you start around 40 whereas in Become Legendary you start out around 70) and you don't miss nearly as many easy shots. It's still very fun, but I'm picking up NBA Elite 11 when it comes out just for Become Legendary because I think it is a more rounded experience than My Player. Plus, in My Player, you get dinged for a lot of stupid stuff that isn't always in your control and they will say something is a bad shot when it clearly wasn't. And seriously, why is my guy a 43 rated scrub going up against 70+ players? If my guy was going to be picked in either the first or second round, he would have to be at least a 60! That's just unfair.

[QUOTE="bobcheeseball"]Oh man I reaaaallly need to get this game :( How is the "My Player" mode? Where you train up and try to get into the NBA? Anybody tried it out?nickdastick

I have played it quite a bit and it's fun. If you liked last years you'll like this years My Player mode. I will say that just from the demo, I think Become Legendary is a better mode though. You don't start out as such a scrub (My Player you start around 40 whereas in Become Legendary you start out around 70) and you don't miss nearly as many easy shots. It's still very fun, but I'm picking up NBA Elite 11 when it comes out just for Become Legendary because I think it is a more rounded experience than My Player. Plus, in My Player, you get dinged for a lot of stupid stuff that isn't always in your control and they will say something is a bad shot when it clearly wasn't. And seriously, why is my guy a 43 rated scrub going up against 70+ players? If my guy was going to be picked in either the first or second round, he would have to be at least a 60! That's just unfair.

Hmm...sounds pretty good I guess. I've never actually done this mode before....

Do you play D-League games? (I doubt it but it would be really cool :P)