Official 2k10 Demo Impressions Thread

[JaoSming]

Keep your impressions of the recently released 360 demo here.

I personally wasn't blown away by any of it. The lack of commentary hurts the atmosphere and presentation badly. Especially when that guy tells me to Get Up! he sounds like he is right next to me and not over a stadium speaker.

Looks to be a definite lack of animations compared to what I've seen from videos of the real game. The Coach cutaways were just awkward, but as I said, videos I've seen of them looked better.

Other than those, the gameplay seemed pretty solid, nothing dumb happened in 3 play throughs unless I tried throwing a halfcourt pass with Bass. Graphics were good, but hopefully we can start iff patching once we get the game this year. ...I really need to make a center in the Draft Combine and practice the new post mechanics though. Loving the turbo restrictions, however, I was surprised to see it being drained when I was in lockdown mode standing still.

Bunch of screenshots in the menus, nothing of note. Looks like Rucker Park will be back in the game for both the Dunk Contest w/ thrones and the 3pt shooting contest warmup thingy. lol at the 76er's screenshot, it's the new court, but with last year's jerseys... but it is all updated in the full game.

2k's demos have never been amazing things, but I bet a lot of people on consoles are going to be turned off by this demo as the "same old same old" and goto Live since it seems fresh and new.

[flam1ng n1nja11]

sorry about posting in the other forum

its a great demo. BUT there is no subs, no commentry no pre game stuff its just straight game. even then its very limited no play calling and no tricks.
VERY VERY cut down version!

BUT what i can say is this. its very very good atmosphere wise. when you get an alley from jameer and smash it home with howard the crowd goes dead quiet but when bynum gets a massive put back you feel it from the crowd. nothing like 2k9 in that repect.

there is alot of work that needs to be done patching wise.

kobe is kinda kobe.. VC has a massive forehead ETC but nothing we patchers cant fix

all in all for a demo good taste but that taste is not enough for me now!

[Doobie]

I played the demo, like it's been said it's very cutdown. One thing I really really did love though was the fact that Pau Gasol grabbed an offensive board, and help the ball over his head like he usually does in real life, and just layed it right back in. I will have to work on the sliders cause I played it 3 times and all the 3 times both teams shot near 70%. I enjoyed the animations, the shots, the alley-oops. They were all cool. I hated the fact that you couldn't even call a damn pick. The last second fullcourt heaves are awesome too.

[JaoSming]

I hated the fact that you couldn't even call a damn pick.

B button man, Pick n Roll control

[flam1ng n1nja11]

but thats all that you could do. i tried fouling a few times didnt get him subbed off. i wonder if 6 fouls would sub

[Isaiah]

I hated the fact that you couldn't even call a damn pick.

B button man, Pick n Roll control

if this was gone i'd be mad

btw is the demo only for the Xbox or is it available on the PSN as well?

[flam1ng n1nja11]

i think its available for psn on thursday

[HellBoy]

Full NBA 2K10 available for xbox 360

[Patr1ck]

I was kind of turned off by the demo after playing the Live demo all this time. I had to get reused to the controls, or lack thereof wit no playcalling or offball control. Loved the alleyoop animations, they were just fantastic. Alot harder to get to the basket of the dribble so far, I haven't been able to trigger any far out layup animations and when I did get a lane, I would of course be holding turbo and throw it down with Kobe, VC, or whoever. The Intense Defense or whatever happens when you hold the LT looks promising. I saw some pretty cool animations, but there is also a weird warping where the ballhandler will snap backwards a few feet. It's the same thing you can see in one of PastaPadre's videos so it's in the full game. Atleast they allow us to rematch at the end unlike Live, where if you wait too long to pause the game once it's over you only get the options to go back to the hangar or the 360 dashboard. I liked what I saw from the CPU offensive AI. They found the open man alot and ran what looked like a couple of plays.

[justinpot]

atleast it's just a demo ryt?

[Patr1ck]

Yeah, I didn't like the 2K9 demo much, either.

[cavs4872]

I'm very surprised that 2K did not choose to put pre-game or commentary in the demo. Those seem to be the two things they improved upon most. Overall, I was not very impressed with the demo. It seemed more like a beta version than the final game.

[The X]

Sounds like it would've been better just not to release a demo at all

[buzzy]

Playing that demo just made me even more confident about returning to Live this year.

[dennis09]

Playing that demo just made me even more confident about returning to Live this year.

hahahah lol just calm dude its just demo you didnt play the real game yet thats why 2ksports just making some adjustment to the game
for me live is good but not as good as 2k coz live players too stiff while 2k has more accurate player like the player in real life.....
dont get me wrong coz i know all about both games

[shadowgrin]

How well do you know both games?

[flam1ng n1nja11]

not enough to make a pre game release judgment thats for sure

[Daniel24]

Ok guys, I am a ps3 user, but my flatmate has quite nicely donated his xbox 360 to me for a day so that I could get a hold of the demo and post my impressions. I am a 2k basketball fan, but I have attempted not to be overly biased.

Ok so let's start with the not so good things:

- 2k seemingly still has this annoying animation that when you absorb contact in the paint, you sometimes end up shooting at the back of the backboard, obviously resulting in an out of bounds call. This would very VERY rarely ever happen in real life, definately not in the NBA.

- This has only happened on occasion, but sometimes on a break (and even in halfcourt ball), I would attempt a normal pass to bynum or gasol, and it would somehow become a (failed) attempt at an alley oop play. Not good.

- This is one thing that no game as (successfully) implemented... On a fast break you still cannot whack a player to stop the break and/or dunk. Many times with kobe and fish i just get caught running behind carter and becoming a background image for his poster

- The most neglected thing about 2k is the kicks in the game. To put it in simple terms, they are horrible! I know a lot of people do not really care about them, but they do suck. All of the magics shoes look exactly the same, except V.C has a nike tick and Dwight has his 3 stripes. At least kobe and gasol's nikes are respectable. (I just hope you can make the Kobe IV minneappolis colourway, cause I wear them haha).

- Still no MVP chant for Kobe? cmon.. the laker fans need it lol


Ok now to the things I enjoyed about the game:

- The new turbo system is fantastic, I love it. That's all that needs to be said. And the fact that it uses turbo to play lock down D is great as well, my mates might have to learn how to play D now

- The crowd shouting chants when the away side shoots charity shots is good, I believe that they are saying "your gonna miss" or something along those lines.

- Arena sounds are excellent, along with sounds on the court (shoes, net, players, etc)

- Player models (as always is the case) are brilliant, they don't look like shiny plastic men (like in another certain game)

- A little thing that added realism to gameplay was the seemingly new block animations... different from 2k9's lackluster effort, the 2k10 animations look better

- Slam dunks have been towned down. Enough said. Any 2k user will know what I am talkin bout.

- Fast break animations are good, they are fluent, and provide the user with a variety of options, and every player defends a break differently as well.

- The way that the crowd responds to whatever the situation is in the game is fantastic

- The presentation that we have seen looks top notch as well, from halloween games to christmas games, to commentary to the instant replays, 2k10's presentation will not be matched this year

Overral I would probably give this demo around a 7.5, as it is missing key components of the experience, such as commentary, ability to make subs and run plays, and more game time (to see how players play down the stretch).

From what I have seen and gathered on 2k10, along with the gameplay I experienced however, I am going to give 2k10 an early rating of 9.

I will be posting impressions on the "My Player" mode once I have the game on Friday. Thanks for reading.

[TheBigEasy]

Is there a PC demo out somewhere?

[JaoSming]

probably tomorrow or thursday.

[natche21]

do we really need a demo? hehehe

[homicide1550]

Having a PC demo will be nice.. I just want to test if my PC can run the game in ultra high settings..

[TheBigEasy]

do we really need a demo? hehehe

What homicide said ... I need the demo to see if my PC runs it ok. Cause even if its only 30 or 35€ to buy, I won't shell out that money just to discover, my Comp won't be running it ...

[shadowgrin]

If your PC can run 2K9, it can run 2K10.

[natche21]

do we really need a demo? hehehe

What homicide said ... I need the demo to see if my PC runs it ok. Cause even if its only 30 or 35€ to buy, I won't shell out that money just to discover, my Comp won't be running it ...

i think he can run 2k9 on his pc, he can run 2k10