A great, realistic basketball game that anybody should try
Like I said before, this is a SIMULATION basketball game. It is meant to be realistic, and with a few tweaks in the sliders it is. Basically the controls are the same as they always have been for NBA games. You have a button to pass, shoot, but wait, there is a little twist on the shooting this year. While it isn't the biggest thing ever to hit basketball games, and it will, by no means, change the way we play them forever, it is a nice addition. It's called the shot stick. You use the right analog stick to control what kind of shot you want. Now, on jumpshots you're better off using X, but if you are driving the lane, posting up, or have a wide open lane for a dunk this will be better, because you can direct what kind of layup/dunk you want to do. If you press down you usually (keyword usually sometimes it doesn't do what you want it to) do a reverse layup, if you press right you will lean to the right on a layup, and so on. With the dunks though, I didn't notice any sort of set direction you push to do certian things, which was kind of weird. Overall it's a nice addition, but you don't have to use it.
They also changed the isomotion this year. Now all you need to do is hold down the R button, and move the LEFT analog stick in a direction. Each direction corresponds to a different move. You can also hold down L and R to do even better moves. You're either going to love, or hate the changes they made to isomotion this year. The AI on the other hand is a different story. You can only love it. The AI is so realisitc in this game. The teams use the same kinds of strategy the real NBA teams use. So if you are the Suns it will be a run and gun kind of team, and if you are the Spurs you won't see a whole lot of that. It really adds to the experence, and makes the game better overall.
As for the graphics in the game, they are amazing. The players clothes move realistically, and as the game moves on sweat starts to pour down their face, like it deos when you are really playing. The only things i didn't like were sometimes, the clothes would go through the players body, and the sweat didn't look amazingly realistic. Also I don't think NBA players sweat in the second minute of the first quarter. Overall the graphics are amazing but I expect 2k to fix the little things in 2k7.
The sound is pretty good, although sometimes the bradcasters will make mistakes like saying that the team is running out the clock even though there is also of time left. The soundtrack flatout blows though. This is what you have a custom soundtrack for. USE IT!
Overall NBA2k6 is a solid basketball game with great graphics, AI, and controls that anybody that has a passing intreast in Basketball should check out. And with a retail price of 40 dollars why not?