The game that was once good but this one bites!
When 2K Sports reported that the new shoot button was gonna be the right analog stick I knew from there that this game was going down the tubes. Let me begin by saying that shooting is a pain in the behind. I don't care if you practice your shooting in the practice mode it won't make a difference at all when you play season mode. I know this was suppose to be a real sim NBA game but come on not sooooooooo 100% real sim. Even the simplest layups and short jumpers can quite just hit the rim and just roll slowly out which is really fustrating.
The free throw system is yet again the blasted shot stick too. It's the worst concept ever for shooting free throws. Pull down on the stick and the smoothest release you can manage will either make your free throw shot or not. Just stupid! 2K5's free throw system was much better and easier than this. Another thing to point out about the gameplay is the fact that everytime your going to block a guy going to the basket for a dunk or a layup results in a foul. Even the slightest jump in the air and not blocking him will cause a foul. Also, theres too many intercept passes in this game. Every once and a while when you pass a ball across court to your team mate reults in a turnover by the other team just jumping in the way to get the ball.
Finally, the worst part of all this is the ONLINE! Boy are their a bunch a cheaters online with this one. No sim at all here. Guys online picking high rate teams like the Pistons, 76ers, Cavs, Mavs, Heat, Spurs, Lakers and they abuse the higher rank players like Kobe and James dunking everytime and never taking a open shot; Jason Williams jacking up threes everytime with Wade dunking as well as Shaq; James dunking and no shot; players online who never sub their team players and always use their starting 5 through out the whole 5 minutes of each quarter; it's things like this that make this game so ugly and hateful. One more thing to point out about the online is 2K Sports' server is terrible. When entering a lobby to challenge someone, every players ping is red/low except yours. If you manage to find someone with a ping that is green/high it really doesn't matter cause the game play online is laggy. So laggy that you can't really measure your shot or time your shot right. 2K5 had a way better online and the experience was far more better than this.
Overall, this game makes me want to just break the darn disk everytime I get chessed online and never seem to get used to the controls or gameplay. It's times like these when people on the online chat say, "God, I miss NBA 2K5.", and so do I.