Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

[Thadeus]

Just curious which version is tops. Thanks.

[LingeringRegime]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

I like 2K8 best of the three to be honest.

[DC]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

^ How is that being honest?

[Stumbleweed]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

I think 2K9's the best, but I'm lying.

[StormJH1]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

I tend to hate these kind of questions because they're so vague. Do you mean the best value for your money? Do you mean which of them plays the best, irrespective of when they were made or how much they cost? Except in rare instances like with the 2k baseball series (where the title actually did get worse in subsequent years), a sports series should almost always be better in its newer versions.

2k8 and 2k9 are almost identical, except that 2k9 has slightly more features and polish, plus Living Roster. But if you're only a moderate basketball fan and don't care about rosters, would $10 for used 2k8 make more sense than $30 for used 2k9? Maybe!

[DC]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

Don't use the Living Rosters as a selling point. If anything that is a weakness of the game

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

2K9.

[Joey P]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

The most recent version is always the best, IMO.

[sportyguyfl31]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

Honestly, outside of bright and flashy next gen spit and polish, we've been playing the same game since 2k5-2k6.

2k7 is the one out of the 3, that made me pull my hair out the least.

Not the most ringing endorsement in the world, but Ive honestly enjoyed this series less and less since 2k6.

[Rules]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

Honestly, outside of bright and flashy next gen spit and polish, we've been playing the same game since 2k5-2k6.

2k7 is the one out of the 3, that made me pull my hair out the least.

Not the most ringing endorsement in the world, but Ive honestly enjoyed this series less and less since 2k6.

What he said

As the years go bye, I find myself playing less and less of the 2k series. I personally thought 2k9 was a major stepdown. 2k8 was the better of the two in my opinion as it played a more realistic game. I was not that impressed with 2k7. It has been a long time since a basketball game has really caught my attention.

[juliushodge]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

I hadn't played 2k on a next-gen system until 2k9, but for last gen 2k7 was definitely the best. 2k8 seemed like the same game to me, but with more glitches. 2k7 on last gen was the pinnacle of the franchise for me up to this point.

[Rocky]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

NBA 2K7 made the biggest jump. But it had some horrid issues. If you thought stopping Kobe, Lebron, and VC were hard in NBA2K9, they were about 100x's as bad in NBA2K7. They could jump from the FT line unintruded. There were also unstoppable post play moves and really no defensive mechanics to stop all the offensive moves.

NBA2K8 was probaly the best effort overall for the time. Help D was somewhat realistic with guards helping and players sagging off. There were some solid defensive maneuvers as well. Two things hurt NBA2K8, however.....the unstoppable PICK AND ROLL and the merciless backdoor cuts by the AI (again 100x's worse in NBA2K8 than in 2K9 and you really couldn't do anything to stop it).

NBA2K9 saw massive upgrades in presentation, graphics, animations, and the association. Gameplay wise, I saw what it was trying to do. It tried to fix alot of competitive imbalances from previous versions. But it put band-aids on flesh wounds (such as removing help d from the guards to prevent people from putting 4 shooters on the court). It plays the best out the box and you can adjust it to make it even better. However, there are still some flaws and things in other b-ball games that 2K9 needs to still. Here are 5 things that I think will make NBA2K10 an excellent game:

1 (and most important)-Revamp the passing system (everything stems from this).
2- Add realistic defensive rotations
3- Improve clipping
4- Add a post d mechanic other than the block
5- Online Association

[babyfat9]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

2k9 by far is better than the other two. After going back and playing 2k8 after 2k9 it's not even close. Graphics, Camera and gameplay is so much better on 2k9. Only drawback on 2k9 is exporting created teams where faces go back to default which was great on 2k8.

[Pared]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

Honestly, outside of bright and flashy next gen spit and polish, we've been playing the same game since 2k5-2k6.

2k7 is the one out of the 3, that made me pull my hair out the least.

Not the most ringing endorsement in the world, but Ive honestly enjoyed this series less and less since 2k6.

Ugh. 2k6 was terrible. 2k5 was abysmal.

If you want to compare these games to those, no wonder you're pulling your hair out.

[DC]

Re: Which is best, 2K7, 2K8, or 2K9?

NBA 2K7 made the biggest jump over the previous version
NBA 2K7 had me the most excited PRE-release
NBA 2K9 is by far the better game (taking time into consideration)