NBA 2K7

5 Responses to “NBA 2K7”

1. S. Hexem
   December 25, 2009 at 5:52 pm

   When I went to the store, the first thing that caught my eye was the good looking $30 price tag. I then looked over and saw that nba live o7 was asking for $50. Well I considered being non-frugile and just grabbing the nba live, since I do have nba live 04′ and it scored as one of my favorite games I have ever played. But then I thought about it and I really hadnt ever played a 2k nba game and that price tag did look awfully nice. So i went with 2k7. Mistake? In my oppinion Definitely. As I started playing I was quickly captured by the great game modes and how each player had a live picture of him when you went for the fantasy draft. I also found all the extra modes like “situation” and “street” to be a great idea and i was excited to dive headfirst into this “amazing” game. But then the game actually started. After an amazingly realistic and fun pre game announcement and comparison, I started with excitement. Then I got the ball of the jump and found that my player was slow and unreceptive. I quickly passed the ball to the best player in the nbs (lebron james of course) and to my astonishment even he was sluggish and had a terrible wide open 15 foot jump shot. I got back on d when they grabbed the rebound and as soon as i went for the steal I got a foul. I went for another steal…another foul. Everytime i went to steal the ball was an instant foul no matter how I approached it. This horrifying gameplay went on for about 20 minutes until i got dead tired of it and opened the cd drive and yanked it outta there and threw in nbs live 04. needless to say the rest of my evening was very enjoyable and nba 2k7 still sits on my shelf to collect dust. hey, it makes a good paper weight at the very least. do yourself a favor and GO WITH LIVE
   
   Ok to finish up, here are my ratings on a sclae of 1-10:

   Graphics:10-outstanding realistic players

   Storyline:_- since when was there a storyline in a basketball game?

   Gameplay:1- if i had the choice of playing that game again or getting kicked in the crotch i would actually have to think about it

   Sound:7-decent sountrack and you can use custom soundtracks

   Overall:5-I would not reccomend this game to anyone. go with live.
   Rating: 2 / 5
2. Brockness Monster!
   December 25, 2009 at 7:14 pm

   Come on people. Seriously, this game sucks, for numerous reasons!

   The only thing thats good about it is the fluent movement, thats it.

   - You can’t effectively work your big man in the post
   
   - You can’t make a freakin jumpshot!
   
   – I played an entire game with the Suns, and I only made 2 out of about 35! Come on!!
   
   - The players look weird
   
   – When Boston’s SG West went to the line to shoot free throws, I got scared as all hell. He looked like a zombie on crack.. (imagine that for a sec).
   
   - There is no stand alone button for dribble moves (spins, crossovers, etc..)
   
   - You can’t break anyone down and drive to the bucket (this is impossible)
   
   – When i’m Iverson, and i’m being guarded by shaq, I would be able to get around him…..Wrong, Wrong on this game Shaq beat me to every step, and i couldn’t get around him to save my life!! Crazy!

   Ok, we all hate NBA Live. Lets not get to worked up over a game thats a little better than Live. Frankly, i prefer Live. All that game needs is better camera angles, and it would be a pretty good game.

   Please don’t get this game if you value a dollar! Rent it and you’ll see.

   negative 5 stars for me!
   Rating: 1 / 5
3. Dean Hacker
   December 25, 2009 at 8:22 pm

   I bought this product because it was well-reviewed and despite Shaq in a Heat jersey on the cover. However, it was deeply disappointing. The graphics are terrible for a Nextgen system. The game play is dull.
   Rating: 3 / 5
4. C. Bakehorn
   December 25, 2009 at 9:26 pm

   NBA 2K6 was, without a doubt, the top NBA basketball game last season. 2K Sports put together one of the best basketball games I can even remember, and no one put out a more impressive next-generation sports title for the Xbox 360 launch. Everything in terms of presentation, gameplay on-court and even off the court was nearly perfect. After such an impressive season in 2006, I expected a lot out of Visual Concepts’ 2007 offering and I came up quite disappointed. NBA 2K7 is like watching your team fall behind in the fourth and lose by a few points-it’s not a total bomb of a game, but it’s still a loss.

   NBA 2K7’s miscues are almost all on-court. In fact, I’d go as far as to say the only miscues, with the exception of 24/7 Mode, are on-court. 24/7 Mode makes its return this year, and it’s basically a street ball story mode where you create a player and try to enter a pro-am tournament at Rucker Park in New York City. Haven’t we been down this road a few times before? Not only is the mode unimpressive and unoriginal, the presentation is a joke. I’m not being sarcastic, it’s laughably bad-you’ve got a buddy who tags along to watch you play, and his comments and gestures throughout the cut-scenes in 24/7 Mode made me want to take NBA 2K7 out of my Xbox 360 and shatter it into pieces. If the sidekick wasn’t being annoying, the gameplay was-street ball isn’t fun when it runs at a simulation pace, and 24/7 Mode felt as sim as The Association, NBA 2K7’s other deep offering. The Association hasn’t ever been deeper, and this season you can do all sorts of different things-set up and participate in team practices, trade players, manage team finances and staff, all while balancing your team’s chemistry. Team Chemistry is an integral part of the mode, as it affects your players on and off the court-but that’s nothing new, it’s been done for years in the franchise. All said, I wish 24/7 Mode was as impressive as The Association.

   As I said much earlier, the miscues found here are all on-court. Last season, the biggest complaints were that blocks were tough and driving the lane was far too easy. This year, I’d quadruple that list. The opponent A.I. was been tightened up about ten notches and I found it so difficult to drive the lane that I eventually quit trying. It’s not only the A.I., but at times I felt like there were invisible walls keeping me from getting close to the hoop. It was absurd to see Dwayne Wade fail to pierce the interior defense of the Portland Trail Blazers. Free throws were a strong point last year, though many people found them to be very simple. This year, since every single player has his own specific animation, free throw timing depends on that specific animation. This makes free throw percentages drop from last year’s 90% to about 40% or so. The overall field goal percentages have been forcefully lowered, meaning that oftentimes you simply won’t make shots because you’re not supposed to. Good luck having a lights-out night with your fantasy team filled with superstars, it’s not happening here. As I said, the A.I. was worked on, and you can tell-defenders will collapse and switch targets very often, but when you’re on defense and this happens to you, it’s nothing but annoying. Mismatches are created so often that it’s free points for the CPU.

   Where did it go wrong? Last year when I thought about gameplay, I couldn’t hardly complain about anything. This year, I would sit, play the game, and basically loathe the experience I was having. The game is now so slow that I forced myself to use the sliders in the pause menu, and even then it didn’t help much. If it’s any indication, I played a game with 10-minute quarters and scored 104 points as the Miami Heat, one of the most potent and deepest offensive teams in the NBA. Anyone who’s played other basketball games knows that playing a game with 10-minute quarters should yield more than 200 points from both teams. I guess you could consider it realism, but I consider it boring for a video game. Think about it-I scored an average of 2.5 points per minute. I know that Visual Concepts wanted to create a game with realism but there comes a point when realism isn’t fun, it’s boring and tedious.

   As I mentioned earlier, almost every single player in NBA 2K7 has his own animations. You’ll see the world’s ugliest jump shot from Adam Morrison and the free throw that takes longer than pregnancy from Shaquille O’Neal. These animations are nice and make NBA 2K7 one of the most impressively animated video games I’ve seen. You’ll notice other little touches, like players jumping and squaring up for long air passes or sliding and squaring up to the hoop to take a jump shot. There are a lot of improvements to the presentation. For example, you’ll see all sorts of broadcast camera angles and instant replay effects. Otherwise, the visuals remain largely unchanged from last year. I noticed that the cloth physics were toned down a little bit, and I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, but it doesn’t make the game look worse. Ah, if only NBA 2K7 was as nice to play as it is to look at. The audio also remains mostly the same, and I noticed that the commentary was even more repetitive this year. It’s a big fault, since I heard some lines several times in the same game. For shame, Visual Concepts Get those boys back in the booth and record some new, interesting material. I will credit the on-court chatter and crowd reactions, although the crowd can become very quiet at times.

   It’s a shame that NBA 2K7 is such a disappointment. It’s like watching the underdogs in the NBA Playoffs lose a close one in game seven. The 2K series has come a long way, but it’s a good thing that Visual Concepts has a year to work on some of the gameplay flaws that they arbitrarily created this season. They need to stop worrying so much about realism and start thinking about the entertainment value-NBA 2K7 is the most realistic basketball game you’ll play, sure, but it isn’t the most fun and that’s what matters.
   Rating: 3 / 5
5. Keith E. Newman
   December 25, 2009 at 11:55 pm

   don’t even think about live 07 its garbage this is your best bet holla!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
   Rating: 5 / 5