NBA 2K13 Impressions Thread

[eko718]

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I'm on it bro. I love custom music, me and Ruben worked together to come up with a lot of songs a few years back so believe me I know what it adds. Heres the list:

Stadium Intro
Playoffs Stadium Intro
Finals Stadium Intro
ASG/RSG Stadium Intro
Jumpball
Home Team Up
Away Team Up
Home Team Defense Chant
Home Team Offense Chant
Home Team Possession On a Run
Away Team Possession On a Run
Home Team Shooting FT
Away Team Shooting FT
Home Team Calls Timeout
Away Team Calls Timeout
Timeout Crowd Motivation Music
After Timeout Hype-Up Music
Replay
End Of Quarter
Return to Quarter
Halftime
Home Team possesion during blowout
Away Team posession during blowout
Home Team Going to Win
Home Team Wins Game
Away Team Wins Game
East Al Stars or Rookie Team Wins Game
West All Stars or Rookie Team Wins Game
Home Team Wins Playoff Game
Away Team Wins Playoff Game
Home Team Wins Series
Away Team Wins Seires
Home Team Wins Conference Championship Series
Away Team Wins Conference Championship Series
Home Team Wins Finals
Away Team Wins Finals
POTG

Now this is dope. Kudo's to 2K for enhancing this feature by adding more situations. Now all they need to do is add it to the PC version.

[adh5199]

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Can anyone confirm that they still have the post game photo book and the highlight package at the end? Player sig skills videos too?

Edit:

I mean the:

Jordan brand player of the game highlights
Pressbook
Signature Highlights
game reel

[Gman 18]

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Legends got the short end of the stick this year. Many missing players (Eric Snow, Chris Webber, Dr. J, Kareem is what i can think about at the top of my head) Teams are the same as last year. Can't remember if the Cavs (with Mark Price) were in 2k12. I know they were in 2k11. But they are in. Didn't see any new legends.

Oh ok. Mark Price was in 2k12.

[holymoly]

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Anyone know if we can change the control stick to absolute instead of camera relative?

[pjt8405]

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I have 3 questions please:



1.) play books- are there any new play types? What are they? *Vannwolf's ?

2.) Could anyone with the game, please post the full free agent list, so we know every player who could possibly be in the game that is not on a roster?

3.) Could anyone check out players like Michael Beasley, Ricky Rubio, Kenneth Faried and see if the player models are changed like the portrait pics show?

[Da_Czar]

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Respectfully all these dam questions are killing the impressions thread. 3 pages(40 per page for me) and most of them are questions or conjecture LOL

[RawCITY]

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For 2k14, 2k should make a feature similar to gameface so we could have realistic looking CAPS instead of alien looking ones.

This is one of the things that really bugs me about 2k. One of their biggest game modes is MyPlayer, yet the create a player is horrible.

[Boge]

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As of right now I would give this game a perfect 10, so hear me out. The defensive rebounding is bad, very bad. In an online game just now there was 22 offensive rebounds amongst both teams. I mean, defensive rebounders dont box out or go towards the area the ball is coming down at. I cant believe how many rebounds hit the floor before being got. Is anybody else experiencing this?

Did I just read this right? You give it a perfect 10 followed up by the offensive rebounds are fubar?

[bigball12]

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My turn to ASK a question. haha.

Really the ONLY thing I care about, can someone please check if we can use Classic/Olympic/ASG team in Online private team up.

[TossTheBurnerBro]

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Did I just read this right? You give it a perfect 10 followed up by the offensive rebounds are fubar?

Pretty much, everything else is so good that I hate to take away from the game cause something as serious as offensive rebounding could be a game breaker, so I let it be known that this game is amazing but that bulls*** needs to be fixed soon.

[Steve Nashhole]

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is it that much better than the demo..?

[2_headedmonster]

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worst. impression.thread. EVER.

[BChizzle]

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Picked up my copy yesterday so had the whole day to play. Didn't try too many modes but i did play at least 7 full games.

Let's start off by saying that i've been playing since 2k5. These past few years have been a disappointment to me. 2k12 was IMO the worst out of the whole franchise and it really felt like they took a step BACKWARDS. From the " up and under fakes" , the way the CPU magically catches up to you no matter how big your lead is, the last second shots that go in, ..the list goes on. With that said, last night i was in basketball heaven. Might not be fair to judge it from a day of playing, but i can honestly say ..2k13 is THE best basketball game...ever. I'm usually the one to nitpick every little thing but for 2k13, i really couldn't find one at all. No matter how hard i tried to "cheese".. it didn't work.

The way the AI plays is beautiful. Teams play like they would and there's no standing around. I think Pared pointed this out in another thread but players really do play like themselves and 2k captured it perfectly. I had a game against the Cavs where Kyrie Irving totally destroyed me. I couldn't stay in front of him. He ended up with 32 points but the beauty of it was, he didn't jack up every single shot. He played smart, drove the lane.. when he saw defenders he kicked out . If he saw it was wide open hed do his signature fancy lay ups.

Only things i disliked were the face models and i felt like the graphics took a downgrade. BUT, the fluidity and how life like the players move made up for that. Besides, you really only notice it when they do close ups for free throws or something. Also, Shots seem to still go in at a high rate but sliders should be able to fix that easily.

All in all, 2k13 is the best basketball game ever, and you guys will not be disappointed. So be prepared to lose hours of sleep, and maybe your job. I'm writing this cause time is going by too slow and i can't wait to get home to play some 2k13!!

[DirtyJerz32]

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Can we get a mod to stop this onslaught of Q&A in the impressions thread? This is ridiculous as I've seen 4 impressions only.

[TreyIM2]

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After being addicted to this game like it's sugar, which, admittedly, I am horribly addicted to but have come a loooong way in beating (sup with these damn Dubble Bubbles, tho???), I can't say enough about how GREAT the overall game is. Sick ish in here but I have to admit, I really didn't play much of 2K11 or 12 and that's mainly cuz I never liked isomotion then grew to all out hate it. Just never felt "natural" and intuitive.

I did play a great deal of one of the previous years versions which I forget which one it was because I know I skipped a couple separate years. I say this because I don't know all the lil things that were there before good, bad, and ugly and I'm going to dig into some of the things I like and dislike in this demo. But, I do know IT IS JUST A DEMOOOOOO....

Likes:

- ANALOG DRIBBLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but this is more of a LOVE than a like. THIS, single-handedly, has shook up the game for me and THIS is what has me so addicted to the game, now, where I am obsessed with the game and actually have a hard time putting it down once I start playing. I could NEVER say that about ANY previous NBA2K, point blank. This is the engine that makes the car run for me, PERIOD, end of that story.

- Animations. Never ceases to amaze me what 2K can do with these but WOW! I even drove to the hole with Wade, got the hoop and the harm that caused Wade to hit the deck and he got up and limped a bit to the foul line -WTF!!!!!!!???? AMAZING!! A lil tear started to well up when I seen that. Wow, just wow.

- Player chatter/grumbling - Wow, the lip service in this game is unbelievable. Westbrook got called for one particular foul and he would NOT stop jacking his jaw about it even after initially barking toward the ref while I went to the line to shoot a pair. The grunts, yelling and reactions to plays is AMAZING!! Overall. Even seen Spoelstra yelling at a ref from his seat after one call, with head tracking and all dat. BEAUTIFUL!! What so great about it all too, is that it's randomly done. Not a constant repetition of the same things. I can't say enough about that.

- New (real time) physics- Love the banging and physical contact. Wooo! Nice stuff.

- DEFENSE!! Had to get used to guarding folks again but now that I have -WHOA!!

- FAST BREAK!! Feels like there is finally a true break through with fast breaks now. Lebron and Wade get out QUICK and the overall flow of the break is pretty wonderful.

That's the short of that. Tryna keep it brief - OH, the demo actually looks "shiny" on the PS3, for once!!! Lol. Previous years demos have looked "ashy" or lacked luster. I wonder if it gets even better looking in the retail version.

Dislikes:

- CROWD NOISE!!!! C'MON, 2K!!!! Get that ish together. Lol. The crowd does NOT react properly to plays. Many a time, they sound like they're just chattering when a big play happens, even for the home team. The immersion gets a bit disconnected because of this. This has ALWAYS been a prob even when they had claimed to improve it years ago. Whatever the Live team has done for their game crowd noise, go get that ish. They don't need it no-mo'. Heh.

- Steal/jump button lag - Nothing more to say about that. It's a problem sometimes.

- Double team button - IT NO WORK!!

- Uhh, that's all the dislikes, that I remember, that I really have with this demo. I could talk about some of the player/crowd faces, "coach neck" and crowd animations but that's whatever. I think this is as good as it's gunna get with this gen. Can't complain about that, really. Next gen should be a beast especially with crowds actually head tracking gameplay.


Again, 2K, thanks. This is looking GREAT. Can't wait til Tuesday to see if some things were fixed/improved.