Your decision should be super-easy now that NBA Elite 11 got pushed back to next year. I guess the developers actually realized how big of a pile of crap they were about to release. If they're smart, they don't release it as NBA Elite 11 and just hold off until next October and make it NBA Elite 12, and maybe it'll actually be good by then.
NBA 2K11 got a 9.5 from IGN. Hilary Goldstein (the dude who reviewed it) called it the best sports game of this generation. I can't wait for Tuesday. It needs to get here now.
I don't know why, but I can't stand the gameplay of NBA2K games. I still liked playing Live and NBA: The Inside. Guess I'll just be playing a lot of franchise trading and simming....sigh.
anyone using the 2k share? I'm SO glad they added this, now I don't have to spend so much time creating draft classes every year
So, I've played a full game and parts of a couple others, so these are early impressions. First and foremost, playing as Jordan is awesome. The one game I completed was the Jordan challenge called "The Arrival", which I had to drop 63+ points, 6+ assists and shoot 50% or higher from the floor. Since the first thing I mentioned was Jordan, I have one quick thing to say about the JC. There needs to be a patch to extend the quarter lengths to AT LEAST 10 minutes. The only reason I got the 63 points was because I played 1 vs. 5 almost the entire game and ballhogged the shit out of it with Jordan, sharing just enough to get the assists I needed. While I don't think the challenges will be impossible on the 8 minute quarter length, I think it'll make the mode a lot better if they extend the quarter lengths. Next thing, the gameplay. It's phenomenal. The game is 100 times harder than 2K10, but I also immediately switched it to the 'Simulation' slider set, which probably plays a part in that. However, I'm not complaining about the difficulty at all. I love it, personally. Anyways, the game MAKES you play like a real team. You can't play 1 vs. 5 and just break down your defender every time down the court, the pick and roll isn't a cheap way to score anymore as teams are much more capable of stopping it...the list goes on, but I'll sum it up. Just a couple games in, I can say that this is probably the best playing basketball game I've played. Ever. I'm sure it'll need some slider tweaks here and there, but I haven't played a sports game out of the box that played this well in a while. Usually I have to tweak sliders left and right, so far, this feels like it won't need too much tweaking, which is nice. That's all I've got so far. I'll give some more impressions later on when I'm more than a couple games in. But I'll say it again, the reviews about this are right. This is the best basketball game I've ever played.
