Archive for the ‘Basketball’ Category
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NBA 2K17 features authentic arena audio for all 30 teams
Please enable Javascript to watch this video 2K Sports released a new video today promoting one of the features for NBA 2K17 that was leaked early last week. The development team traveled to all 30 arenas to record audio that would make each venue feel authentic and unique. The beginning of the story mode known as "The Prelude" will be out for free on Friday. Amazon Prime members can still pre-order any version of NBA 2K17 and get 20% off....
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The top rated players in NBA 2K17
The full ratings for the entirety of the league in NBA 2K17 are out and LeBron James is back on top after surrendering that claim last season to back-to-back MVP Stephen Curry. Check out the Sporting News piece for all the players rated 88 and above. Though he is no longer the top rated player Curry's unbelievable performance during the regular season last year did have a big influence on the game. A new shooting category of "Contested" has been added. The developers had a difficult time ...
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NBA 2K17 MyCareer story focuses more on basketball and co-stars Michael B. Jordan
Last year the story mode in NBA 2K16 that was written and directed by Spike Lee lacked interactivity as the user was essentially just a passenger observing a movie. Almost everyone agreed that MyCareer got significantly better once that story actually ended following the rookie season. One fundamental change is being made with the mode for 2K17 with that in mind. The focuses shifts back more to basketball rather than dealing with unrelated personalities. The theme of the "dynamic du...
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Breakdown of gameplay improvements for NBA 2K17
One week from tomorrow consumers will be playing The Prelude, a collegiate-portion of the MyCareer story mode, and two weeks out is the full release of NBA 2K17. 2K Sports has finally started to reveal the actual improvements made for the game, and today Mike Wang (gameplay director for the NBA 2K series) posted an incredibly extensive blog detailing everything that's been done to gameplay in 2K17 and the logic behind it all. The key themes found in the the work that has gone into gamepla...
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NBA 2K17 feature details starting to leak out
The release of NBA 2K17 is just two weeks and a few days away - the MyCareer Prelude even a week sooner - yet many of the improvements to the game have yet to be officially revealed. Some major ones have surfaced today however thanks to the tweets of German basketball writer André Voigt. Among the stream of tweets are details on the commentary, which is said to include 11 different personalities that will vary depending on location of the broadcast, and MyLeague Online becoming a tr...
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Get a one week jump start on your NBA 2K17 MyCareer with The Prelude
2K Sports today announced "The Prelude" which will be a free downloadable experience for NBA 2K17 that involves creating your MyPlayer character and playing through the college portion of MyCareer Mode. The Prelude will go out on Friday, September 9 - that's one full week before the game releases on the 16th. It'll also have the new tutorial mode while the mobile companion app that will allow for face-scanning to apply to MyPlayers will be available on the 8th. 10 licensed colleges are in...
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NBA 2K17 adds David Aldridge as sideline reporter with Brent Barry and Doris Burke as new announcers
Please enable Javascript to watch this video NBA players have apparently already started to receive NBA 2K17 discs and some clearly didn't get the memo that 2K Sports has yet to unveil the majority of the new features for the game despite there being only three weeks until it releases. Willie Reed of the Miami Heat posted some interesting media to his Instagram before 2K reached him to delete it all. The most noteworthy of the posts were short video clips revealing TNT's David Aldrid...
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MyNBA2K17 mobile app will have face-scanning capability
The mobile companion app for NBA 2K17 will be introducing some new functionality to tie in with the game. After two years of having the ability to scan in faces for created MyPlayer characters by using the Kinect or PS4 Camera the job will now be done by the MyNBA2K17 app. That's good news considering the scanning won't be limited to those with the cameras and the process had been frustratingly difficult to complete and simply never worked for some people. Earning extra VC has been the pr...
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