Remember back when NBA Live was on the very top, when Allen Iverson was scoring three pointers and Shaq was changing teams all the time, when Jordan left the Bulls to join the Wizards? Well, that time has passed and we got a new basketball developing king ontop of the hill. NBA 2K13 was in the lead production of my favourite rapper Jay-Z, and the entire project went out superbly, the thing i liked the most were the soundtracks from Jay-Z's many collegues Rihanna, Kanye West, a bit of Beyoncé, Wiz Khalifa etc. NBA 2K14 proves that it is the best basketball simulation up to date, even though the last-gen and the PC version haven't suffered from any major changes. The thing that might lower the game's sales (the last-gen version) may be Lebron's path to greatness mode, but i didn't mind it at all, probably because i'm not a hater and because it's not THAT bad.
PRESENTATION
As always, 2K games puts an intro into every NBA 2K game starting from 2K10. The intro is very cool, not as cool as the ones from the last few games, but it can stand out for a few things. After the intro, you jump right into MyPlayer creation. You create your MyPlayer in order to use him later in the game mode with, ironically, the same name. After that, it's the menus, and believe me, they look cool, but if you haven't played an NBA 2K game before this one, you will have to learn the ropes. The quick play games are the ones that happened or are about to happen in the meantime, for example, my first quick game was between Miami and New York. I went to see the soundtracks and i was amazed, the soundtracks were even better than in the last game! After that, i hopped into the game. Everything is the same, the scoreboard and all, kind reminds me of NBA 2K11 and NBA 2K12, but i didn't mind. What i noticed was that the crowd in every single game had the team's colours, so the atmosphere was great. While i was playing and scored a 3 pointer, my friend was passing by and he thought that i was watching a real NBA game, until he saw that he was wrong. As always, the ends of the quarters and timeouts are boosted by a game soundtrack in the arena. Every half time there's a halftime show sponsored by Sprint, and again the guys from 2K managed to do it so the commentators words repeat very rarely. After i was done with my first, very enjoyable, game i went to Sprite's blacktop. Here, you can create your team of available players, and play with them against another team of picked players of the same level. The court is located in a city, and everything looks badass, especially the crowd when they all cheer. Euroleague is also present for the first time in a basketball game, and it contains 14 teams from the league along with their own arenas which have been copied very well.
GRAPHICS
The next-gen version looks badass, the effects are amazing, while the curremt gen version looks the same as before. Both versions have better looking interiors of the arenas, and some players look more like themselves now, especially in the next-gen version, for example Dwyane Wade's goatie is better seen now.
MULTIPLAYER
Current-gen/PC: Same as before, with added features such as comparison in the LJ's path to greatness mode.
Next-gen: Same as in the current gen version except for LJ's path to greatness mode, the next-gen version doesn't possess that mode. Instead, there is a live playground that can host up to 100 players. There's about 20 courts in one playground, you can walk around with your own created player, join games that are being played live, watch them etc. like a role playing game at some point and it would be really good if 2K made something more like an online role playing thing, but lets leave that for later.
THE VERDICT
NBA 2K14 is the best basketball simulation up to date, it may have stayed the same, but it stayed and made us like it. I give this badass sports game a 9/10 for the current/last-gen version and a 9.5/10 for the next-gen version as it features better graphics and better and more fun things to do.
Anyways, this was a review dedicated to the 500 blog views milestone, i actually passed that hundred in just a few days, so i totally forgot about it. Thanks for the views peeps, i appreciate that, never really hoped anyone would be reading my stuff. For more reviews, check out my blog. Laters.
PRESENTATION
As always, 2K games puts an intro into every NBA 2K game starting from 2K10. The intro is very cool, not as cool as the ones from the last few games, but it can stand out for a few things. After the intro, you jump right into MyPlayer creation. You create your MyPlayer in order to use him later in the game mode with, ironically, the same name. After that, it's the menus, and believe me, they look cool, but if you haven't played an NBA 2K game before this one, you will have to learn the ropes. The quick play games are the ones that happened or are about to happen in the meantime, for example, my first quick game was between Miami and New York. I went to see the soundtracks and i was amazed, the soundtracks were even better than in the last game! After that, i hopped into the game. Everything is the same, the scoreboard and all, kind reminds me of NBA 2K11 and NBA 2K12, but i didn't mind. What i noticed was that the crowd in every single game had the team's colours, so the atmosphere was great. While i was playing and scored a 3 pointer, my friend was passing by and he thought that i was watching a real NBA game, until he saw that he was wrong. As always, the ends of the quarters and timeouts are boosted by a game soundtrack in the arena. Every half time there's a halftime show sponsored by Sprint, and again the guys from 2K managed to do it so the commentators words repeat very rarely. After i was done with my first, very enjoyable, game i went to Sprite's blacktop. Here, you can create your team of available players, and play with them against another team of picked players of the same level. The court is located in a city, and everything looks badass, especially the crowd when they all cheer. Euroleague is also present for the first time in a basketball game, and it contains 14 teams from the league along with their own arenas which have been copied very well.
GRAPHICS
The next-gen version looks badass, the effects are amazing, while the curremt gen version looks the same as before. Both versions have better looking interiors of the arenas, and some players look more like themselves now, especially in the next-gen version, for example Dwyane Wade's goatie is better seen now.
MULTIPLAYER
Current-gen/PC: Same as before, with added features such as comparison in the LJ's path to greatness mode.
Next-gen: Same as in the current gen version except for LJ's path to greatness mode, the next-gen version doesn't possess that mode. Instead, there is a live playground that can host up to 100 players. There's about 20 courts in one playground, you can walk around with your own created player, join games that are being played live, watch them etc. like a role playing game at some point and it would be really good if 2K made something more like an online role playing thing, but lets leave that for later.
THE VERDICT
NBA 2K14 is the best basketball simulation up to date, it may have stayed the same, but it stayed and made us like it. I give this badass sports game a 9/10 for the current/last-gen version and a 9.5/10 for the next-gen version as it features better graphics and better and more fun things to do.
Anyways, this was a review dedicated to the 500 blog views milestone, i actually passed that hundred in just a few days, so i totally forgot about it. Thanks for the views peeps, i appreciate that, never really hoped anyone would be reading my stuff. For more reviews, check out my blog. Laters.
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