[ehh]

Well I now own this game for the second time. A buddy of mine bought a 360 yesterday and wanted me to go with him. I was walking around the store and saw one copy of this game left for PS3. I'm burned out on CH2K8 at this point after playing the hell out of it for three months and I've been playing (and enjoying) the demo of NCAA 10 the last week or so. So what the hell I thought, here we go again.

The new sliders and rosters definitely help, as does the fact that this game is a thousand times prettier to look at than 2K8, but the game has many major warts - still I played the damn thing for seven hours yesterday. I decided to just accept the CPU post issue and I block the shot every time - it is what it is. Sometimes it goes out of bounds so the CPU gets the ball back anyway. Sometimes if you jump earlier enough the CPU will do an up-n-under.

The user offense is awesome, floor cam (which is broken in Live -doesn't zoom out on jump shots to see the rim/flight of the ball) is the best camera I've ever seen in a basketball game and a camera that I didn't even try the first time I owned the game because I figured it'd be broken like in Live. The graphics and presentation are way better than 2K8 and dynasty is decent enough.

I guess if you accept this game for what it is then you can really enjoy it. I'm going to sim one year in a dynasty to get a ton of fresh recruits into UConn and just play the BET & the Big Dance and fly through the years to enjoy new recruits and players. I'll also start an all-time roster file that I'll work on over the course of the year since we won't have a college game next winter.

There's enough here to get a lot of entertaining hours out of the game for us college bball diehards.