September 14th 2010 10:19 am PT

This Fifa and PES in the same week … its looking good

! Been waiting for this! This is bigger to me than Halo Reach lol

@Ghostwize, ugh that’s not sounding good.. It’s been hyped to control differently and much better than any former NBA2K game. I could care less about it graphically, I just want that level of control they’ve been promising. Won’t be done DLing for me b4 I head into work but I’ll check it out later..

lame, all the sports games are getting old and boring to me.

@Kroesis

You will be sol then because it is only coming packed with NBA Elite 11. Purchasing Elite is the only way to play the new NBA Jam on the 360 and from what I’ve gathered it is a watered down version of the Wii game, which is about as backwards as it gets.

I agree with you Kroesis,Im one of those potential buyers but im not buying Nba Elite 11 to get it,So it needs to come to XBLA

My thoughts on the demo (for anyone who cares):

It does control very much the same as 2K10 which isn’t a bad thing by any means but the iso-motion dribbling controls that’s been hyped should have been shown off a bit in the demo IMO, like Gameflow was shown off a bit in the Madden 11 demo.

Graphically.. well it’s quite jarring the graphical difference between 2K11 and 2K10. It’s a pretty big step up and.. well this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine that I had with Madden as well.. but sports games are getting to the point of “too realistic” in that I don’t feel like the animations flow as well as they used to for the sake of keeping realism. I dunno.. maybe that’s just me.

Now my favorite part – the Presentation! Minus the no-commentary which I can’t fathom why that isn’t in the demo.. this is one of the best presentations I’ve ever seen in a NBA game. Massively better than 2K10′s

All in all, I’m not sure how I completely feel about it.. I’m going to have to give a few more playthroughs (a 1 quarter, 4-minute demo?! Come on!) to feel it out a bit more and see if I will be picking it up on launch day as planned.

Also, Jordan! No Jordan whatsoever. Even if it was just a trailer within the demo, it would have been something.

This is great news. Counting the days, hours and minutes to release and will get day one. As you can probably tell from my gamertag, this game is a pretty big deal to me and IMO is the biggest release of the year. I will be downloading the demo tonight for sure!

As for the commentary missing, this is done on purpose to keep the demo size down. 2K have done this before with previous NBA 2k demos.

No post about DOTW yet ? I presume posting the month’s schedule is enough but, as far as I can remember there wasn’t anything about this week’s arcade/s.
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This week we have three titles for 800 msp each;
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KOF sky stage (top down shooter with snk’s characters-looks like it’s in japanes like other KOF releases).
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Another SPACE INVADERS game, this thime one that evolves from the classic to recent installments of the genre like moving in 8 directions, lol.
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And SONIC ADVENTURES the classic dreamcast game.
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Plus a DEMO of legend of the guardians, based on a movie that came out of the blue to me. It’s about dragonlance owls or something, you know… the bland fantasy worlds out of a book in the vibe of harry potter, narnia, the golden compass. Man, if they only did blockbuster movies and/or games about Terry Pratchet ones…

Question to everyone and particularly Major if you read this -RE: Preordered games…
Sorry if this is a question thats already answered elsewhere but all I could find was stuff about pirated games which doesnt help me. I’ve not pre-ordered many games before, and those I have, I haven’t been able to play until release date anyway. My copy of NHL 11 has been sent out today and will surely be with me tomorrow and I was wondering if I would be able to play it? Like I said it is a proper copy, bought from GAME. I’ve also got quite a few preordered being released over the next couple of months and would like to know in advance if it is ok to play them (games from GAME have always come just the day before release date). Thanks ~~

@Khufu23

It was said on the podcast just last week by Stepto I believe (aka the guy that swings the ban hamnmer) that if you get a game early from a retailer that breaks street date, it’s a-okay to play the game. Pretty much, if you can play a game in a non-modded Xbox 360.. you’re good to go! They have ways of telling if it’s an illegal copy or not so if you got your game by 100% legal means, enjoy!