Insights: My Jordans

[Christian.]

http://community.2ksports.com/community ... 87172&l=11

[Phraynk]

Looks fantastic. Cannot wait! I remember patching Jordan shoes in 2K9.. Now 2K went above and beyond.

[atenista14]

hi, can somebody please post the insight here? thanks a lot

[Jackal]

Hi everyone!
Erick Boenisch, Producer for NBA 2K11, back once again. If you missed my Insights on MJ: Creating A Legend, My Player, and/or The Association, make sure and give those a read. Today I am here to talk about ‘My Jordans’, one of the features related to our partnership with Michael Jordan. As the name implies, this feature centers around the collection of shoes available from the fine folks at Jordan Brand. And because I know you are already antsy, YES, we have every Air Jordan in the game all the way from the Air Jordan I through the Air Jordan 2010! Read on to find out more…

To some people, they are just shoes. To others, they are the culture that defines the NBA. To us, they are authenticity... plain and simple. If it happens in the NBA, we go above and beyond to make sure it appears in our game. That’s why I was beyond excited about our partnership with Michael Jordan this year. This partnership afforded us the ability to bring you the greatest shoe collection the NBA culture has ever seen.

The shoe locker will allow you to view all of your unlocked shoes from the Jordan Brand shoe collection, as well as learn a little history about the shoe. You will also be able to equip players with shoes from the shoe locker as well.

The following is a complete list of all of the Jordan Brand shoes you will be able to obtain in the game this year:

Air Jordan I +2 Ball Handle
Air Jordan II +2 Shot Low Post
Air Jordan III +5 Steal
Air Jordan IV +5 Pass
Air Jordan V +5 Layup
Air Jordan VI +5 Vertical
Air Jordan VII +4 Shot 3PT
Air Jordan VIII +4 Shoot Off Dribble
Air Jordan IX +2 Hustle
Air Jordan X +4 Hands
Air Jordan XI +10 Dunk
Air Jordan XII +5 Stamina
Air Jordan XIII +5 Defensive Low Post
Air Jordan XIV +5 Shot Medium
Air Jordan XV +2 Ball Security
Air Jordan XVI +4 Off-Hand Dribbling
Air Jordan XVII +2 Strength
Air Jordan XVIII +2 Block
Air Jordan XIX +2 Defensive Rebound
Air Jordan XX +4 Quickness
Air Jordan XX1 +2 Offensive Low Post
Air Jordan XX2 +2 On-Ball Defense
Air Jordan XX3 +4 Offensive Awareness
Air Jordan 2009 +2 Durability
Air Jordan 2010 +2 Shot Inside
Air Jordan 2010 Team +3 Speed
Flight School +2 Defensive Awareness
Melo M7 +3 Shot Medium
Ol’ School IV +2 Shoot In Traffic
Take Flight +2 Shot Close
CP3.IV +3 Pass
Pure J +2 Shot 3PT
1-6-1-7 +2 Steal
Team Iso +2 Speed
Rare Air +2 Layup
Pro Strong +2 Defensive Low Post
Air’s +2 Stamina
Evolution ’85 +2 Shoot Off Dribble
6.17.23 +2 Off-Hand Dribbling
Jumpman H Series +2 Offensive Rebound

As I’m sure you noticed, there are attribute bonuses tied to each shoe. Every unlockable Jordan Brand shoe in the game has an attribute tied to it this year. When a player is wearing a particular pair of shoes, he will get the attribute bonus added to his skills. This is particularly useful in My Player mode where there are attribute caps. These shoes allow you to exceed those caps giving you the ultimate opportunity to differentiate your player from others.

You’ll notice above that I referred to these shoes as ‘unlockable’ shoes. We’re not going to send you on a wild chase where you have to go perform various tasks to get access to the shoes. We’re simply going to reward you for playing the game. Every couple of hours of play, a new pair of shoes will be made available to you. You can be playing Quick Games, Association games, My Player, Online, whatever. Just play and the shoes will come.

The shoes do not unlock in the same order for everyone, but rather in a weighted random order with respect to how scarce they are in the real world. For example, all of the shoes above with a ‘+2’ bonus will likely unlock much sooner than the shoes with the higher bonuses. The higher end shoes will definitely give you a big advantage over the competition, particularly in My Player Pick-Up games. The real prize here is obviously the Air Jordan XI, with a number of the ‘+5’ shoes hot on its heels. And remember, all you have to do to unlock these shoes is play the game!

With the launch of NBA 2K11 only 2 days away, I just want to say thank you to everyone for reading our Insights and letting us tell you about all the great stuff we’ve added to the game. As always, it’s been our pleasure. We’ll see you out on the courts!

- Erick Boenisch
a.k.a. SimBaller

[Lean]

The AJ2010's look like girly shoes.

[XPviper]

how can shoes give bonus to your Hands skill or 3pt shooting?

[jenroe962002]

Short But Unique Insight

[Chaimer_23]

Air Jordan XI +10 Dunk. I bet that everybody will wear that.

[Sportsgamer]

Nice to see the effort by 2k, but I dont like what Ive seen this far.

It seems like all shoes have the same model, which looks a bit oversized to me. So narrow and tight ones like the Hyperfuse and the HD 2010, (they also dont have that high arch) look like big blocks. Its suitable for the Heat check though.

The shoes themselves havent been done very good either, from what Ive seen in videos. For example, The AJ1 Alpha looks the very same like last year, no swoosh at all, which is its iconic part. This was just one, another one would be last years cradle rock and the ZK iv, since they are both low tops, the looked like huge clown shoes.

I like that the shoes dont have god like abilities, so it isnt exactly that much of an advantage to unlock em all. Highly unlikely that the orignal AJ1 has better than the 21 for example, but still nice idea stolen from PES.

What bugs me the most is the rating of the 21. Offensive low post? In my opinion mr. edwards created a masterpiece and its should give you a 99 rating but -10 stamina...

[Lean]

Basically I'm thinking that the "shoes" will only be skins of the same shoe model.

[Andrew]

how can shoes give bonus to your Hands skill or 3pt shooting?

I suppose they didn't want to make them all jumping/dunking related.

[tnt23]

cant wait to get my Vi ...the greatest shoes of alltime

[Ihaveloveforthegame]

I need the Vii's!!!

[Andrew]

Just keep playing, then.

[cerebus23]

could always swap the shoes iff files to get the shoe you want with the bonus you want i suppose, unless the bonuses are tied to the shoe iffs in some way. or just swap in the one you want for the one you are currently wearing.

hope we get a list of the shoe iff files soon. would make things easier.