Re: NBA 2K11 Demo Available Now, Impressions and Discussion Here (360,PS3)
I cannot stop playing the demo! I've probably played it about 50 times now. The jump shooting (momentum jumpshot) is incredible. The most beautiful part of basketball is the pull up jumpshot, and we finally finally have got it! It's about time! I never thought being a chucker was so much fun, but the responsiveness and the control of those pull up jumpers is just awesome. Shooting jumpers is finally fun!
All right, most of my rave review is mainly has to do with the jump shooting. For the rest of the demo, here are some pros and cons:
Pros
* AI defensive awareness seems to be much better, considering the demo was set on default/pro difficulty. AI plays passing lanes and angles much better. Finally, stupid passes are going to be picked off. I hope on sim/all-stars and higher difficulties AI are even more aware as to not let players cut through the paint so easily.
* Players movement is much improved. Not nearly as herky jerky when changing direction and speed.
* In the paint help defense is better, but hopefully on higher difficulties it is a lot tougher to score inside. I can still score inside at about 70% of the time.
* Bad passes don't go right on target to the receiver as often. I love the bumbling catches and even the ones that force the receiver out of bound.
Cons
* Set jumpshots are too easy to block. This is primarily because big men are still able to cover too much ground when they jump. There's a vid of a play that someone posted that had Gasol blocking a set jumper by Garnett. Gasol was a good 10ft away from Garnett and was moving to the side. All of the sudden, Gasol levitate a good 2 1/2 ft and jump right into Granett's shot to block it with his elbow. WTF?! C'mon 2K, treat the big stiffs like the stiffs that they are! Big men has to really gather when they jump because they aren't that agile. When they do jump, they don't get up that high and they especially don't jump far. Let's face it, big men grab rebounds and block shots because 1. they are tall and use their length 2. they play inside where most of the misses go. But big men aren't that agile and athletic, lets make this easily noticeable please.
* I'm going to basically repeat the first con here but only this time apply it to rebounding. Once again, most big men are just as fast (moving in a straight line) as the smaller players, but they aren't nearly as agile (lateral movement, quick jump, jumping sideway, etc.) and athletic! C'mon, I want to see a big difference in movement between the big men and the smaller players. Having different rebounding, shot blocking, defensive stance, and lateral movement animations for big men and smaller players would be awesome.
* Not enough occasions of players bumbling catches when a bad pass is thrown to them. Still too many cross court passes that incredibly go right to the receiver hands. Hopefully, playing on higher difficulties this will not happen nearly as often.
* All players have man boobs. I acknowledge the better graphic and player models, but streamline the bulkiness of the player models a little more. They are still too thick, especially up on the chest area.
* I was hoping this year we would finally have wingspan difference between different players. Gasol and Bynum just don't look like themselves with those t-rex arms.
I cannot stop playing the demo! I've probably played it about 50 times now. The jump shooting (momentum jumpshot) is incredible. The most beautiful part of basketball is the pull up jumpshot, and we finally finally have got it! It's about time! I never thought being a chucker was so much fun, but the responsiveness and the control of those pull up jumpers is just awesome. Shooting jumpers is finally fun!
All right, most of my rave review is mainly has to do with the jump shooting. For the rest of the demo, here are some pros and cons:
Pros
* AI defensive awareness seems to be much better, considering the demo was set on default/pro difficulty. AI plays passing lanes and angles much better. Finally, stupid passes are going to be picked off. I hope on sim/all-stars and higher difficulties AI are even more aware as to not let players cut through the paint so easily.
* Players movement is much improved. Not nearly as herky jerky when changing direction and speed.
* In the paint help defense is better, but hopefully on higher difficulties it is a lot tougher to score inside. I can still score inside at about 70% of the time.
* Bad passes don't go right on target to the receiver as often. I love the bumbling catches and even the ones that force the receiver out of bound.
Cons
* Set jumpshots are too easy to block. This is primarily because big men are still able to cover too much ground when they jump. There's a vid of a play that someone posted that had Gasol blocking a set jumper by Garnett. Gasol was a good 10ft away from Garnett and was moving to the side. All of the sudden, Gasol levitate a good 2 1/2 ft and jump right into Granett's shot to block it with his elbow. WTF?! C'mon 2K, treat the big stiffs like the stiffs that they are! Big men has to really gather when they jump because they aren't that agile. When they do jump, they don't get up that high and they especially don't jump far. Let's face it, big men grab rebounds and block shots because 1. they are tall and use their length 2. they play inside where most of the misses go. But big men aren't that agile and athletic, lets make this easily noticeable please.
* I'm going to basically repeat the first con here but only this time apply it to rebounding. Once again, most big men are just as fast (moving in a straight line) as the smaller players, but they aren't nearly as agile (lateral movement, quick jump, jumping sideway, etc.) and athletic! C'mon, I want to see a big difference in movement between the big men and the smaller players. Having different rebounding, shot blocking, defensive stance, and lateral movement animations for big men and smaller players would be awesome.
* Not enough occasions of players bumbling catches when a bad pass is thrown to them. Still too many cross court passes that incredibly go right to the receiver hands. Hopefully, playing on higher difficulties this will not happen nearly as often.
* All players have man boobs. I acknowledge the better graphic and player models, but streamline the bulkiness of the player models a little more. They are still too thick, especially up on the chest area.
* I was hoping this year we would finally have wingspan difference between different players. Gasol and Bynum just don't look like themselves with those t-rex arms.
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