One way we attempted to satisfy all parties was to introduce a new option called Game Style. Changing this option will significantly change the way you experience NBA 2K11. So when you get your hands on the game this October, play around with the different settings, as well as the difficulty level setting, to see what best fits your style of game and experience level. Here’s a quick rundown of what we were shooting for with the different settings:
Default: Kind of a hyper-realism. Shooting %’s will be slightly higher than real life, there will be fewer fouls, slightly more dunks, more and 1’s, etc. “Let ‘em play hoops” so to speak.
Casual: This is the setting you want if you like up and down play with lots of dunks and highlight moments. There won’t be a whole lot of stoppages and you’ll see higher scoring across the board. Arcade-style play is probably the best way to describe it.
Simulation: Real life stats. This is my game style of choice. With 12-min. quarters, you will easily see NBA averages across your stat lines. Don’t expect anything easy in the paint, you’ll have to work a lot harder and execute good basketball strategy to be successful in Sim.
Custom: If you manually modify sliders and settings on your own, the game slider will automatically change to Custom.
Here are some of the new tendencies that we added for 2K11:
Tendency to use glass
Tendency to Give an Go
Playmaker tendency
Touches tendency
Tendency to attack strong
Tendency to use the new shots
Dribble Move Tendencies
Tendency for putback dunks/layups
That was a pretty impressive Insight on Offense and Defense...I'm glad they are going to cater to little arcade spazzes like me when i just want to fuck around and I love all the things they are doing to the help defense....2k10 was a good game but it looks like they are going to take care of almost all the griefs I had with the defense.