NBA 2K15

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87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. XGN
    Oct 14, 2014
    93
    NBA 2K15 might be the best sports game of the year. NBA Live is not a competitor for NBA 2K15, as 2K15 is way better thanks to the great gameplay, thorough MyGM-mode and the phenomenal A.I.
  2. Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey)
    Oct 17, 2014
    90
    NBA 2K15 is most amazing NBA game ever. MyPARK mode, realistic graphics, animations and customization options are waiting for you. There is no need to say more, you should play this game.
  3. GameStar
    Oct 13, 2014
    90
    This sports game is full of subtleties and nuances.
  5. PC Gamer
    Oct 28, 2014
    88
    Allow yourself to get pulled into the show, and it’s hard to see where real life finishes and NBA 2K starts. It's the best sports series on earth. By a distance.
  6. Ragequit.gr
    Oct 26, 2014
    85
    Considering that NBA 2K14 was the best basketball simulator ever made, NBA 2K15 has even better animation, graphics and A.I. For basketball fans there is no other choice.
  7. IGN
    Oct 9, 2014
    78
    Thanks to some good tweaks and the outstanding MyCareer mode, it’s still a game I can recommend as a strong offline basketball game.

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5.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 146 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 66 out of 146
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 146
  3. Negative: 57 out of 146
  1. tstmwku
    Oct 9, 2014
    2
    I preface this review by saying I have only played MyCareer mode, which is the mode I've most enjoyed in the past.

    This game is a    I preface this review by saying I have only played MyCareer mode, which is the mode I've most enjoyed in the past.

    This game is a cash-grab. That's it.The MyCareer mode has a great feel to it, with regard to the storyline and RPG elements it has. The story-driven career mode seems enjoyable. But there is one massive flaw with the mode: Your player is terrible. Your player is not good at anything and is terrible at everything. The story says you're undrafted, but NBA Scouts wouldn't even look at a player as bad as yours is to start MyCareer.

    To upgrade your player, you need VC, which you can earn very slowly through playing. 2 full days of playing and I got my guy from a 62 Overall to a 64 Overall. But, you can BUY VC! That's the point. They make your player suck so bad so they can sell you VC.

    The controls are horrendous, especially on defense. AI is terrible. The game is just bad. Even as bad as 2K14 was, 2K15 is worse.    … Full Review »
  2. OMM
    Oct 9, 2014
    3
    The game is a fraud for PC players. We were promised all of the features of the next gen console and we got none of them. The engine is justThe game is a fraud for PC players. We were promised all of the features of the next gen console and we got none of them. The engine is just off, no feedback, there is really no weight to any of the players, they all feel like they are ice skating. My Player is linked to your ONLINE guy. The pre order bonus VC is not available. The game looks great but plays TERRIBLE. The issues with defense are worst than last year, you cannot stay in front of your guy. The game is basically a dunkfest. My hardware is I-7 3770K@4.6GHz on H20, EVGA 780TI SuperClocked, 16GB of ram and 500GB SSD wtih 400GB free and I 250GB SSD system drive.… Full Review »
  3. jjhill001
    Oct 10, 2014
    3
    Considering that 1.5 hours of my playtime was spent attempting to play a single player portion of the game lets just say I'm not a very happyConsidering that 1.5 hours of my playtime was spent attempting to play a single player portion of the game lets just say I'm not a very happy customer. 2K is one of the biggest game companies in the world and can't seem to be able to stress test their game's servers/not hide BS DRM in a game with this always online bullcrap. You know how to decrease stress on your servers, don't make the most popular mode (myCareer) always online like ♥♥♥♥♥s. Also stop defending that it's multiplayer game, this isn't Warcraft, there are like max 10 players at a time.

    Onto the actual game:
    Only played myCareer a few hours after release the game is fun, looks good, isn't really as responsive as I'd like, players feel a little heavy (Video game me should be able to react on defense better than real me) I'm not asking to be Scotty Pippin immediately but I can't even attempt to recover to at least contest a layup that would go in but look a little more realistic having someone there. It's kind of tough to get assists as a rookie on HOF difficulty but I'll figure it out.

    I didn't read up on this game too much before I got it because I did that last year then PC got jipped on features that really sounded cool to me. So I was really surprised to find out that I'm best friends with Andre Drummond and he can talk to me, which IS awesome. It would be more awesome if the voice acting was a little better and not so stone faced like Skyrim was.

    Speaking of Skyrim! The game takes up 50GB which is like 8 Skyrims.

    Edit: This is almost worse than I thought. Instead of making the AI smarter on harder difficulties they just make your character artificially slower which is stupid.

    Steve Kerr is an announcer, Stan Van Gundy's guy looks like the penguin from batman. Passing is not working right or is just made more difficult by the previously mentioned crap with difficulty level I can't tell. Myteam still doesn't work, neither does the park, or anything else online as far as I can tell.

    Javale McGee and Dwight Howard doing turnaround fadeaway jumpshots from 13ft out? Yup! You betcha. Invisible players interviewing with Doris, yup. Also since when does EVERY player in the NBA shoot jumpshots from 5ft out instead of a wide open layup? Oh yeah even when I do get a teammate the ball around the bucket wide open, does he brick the layup 85% of the time? I don't know why this is. Probably something to do with the difficulty level forcing me to be 80pt Kobe just to win a MyCareer game. BTW all of this stuff is from myCareer because it's the only thing working so far.

    Edit 2: Add Joakim Noah to the list of bigs doing turnaround fadeaway jumpers. The game seems to just want you to score 40 pts have 15 rbs and 15 asts to get a win in my career. I'm gonna turn the difficulty down to test this theory because my guys miss WIDE open transition layups all the time. The opposing teams big no matter how bad will alway get like 7 offensive rebounds and convert them almost 100% of the time. If one of the players on myPlayer's team blocks a shot the computer gets it back no matter what. Usually with a wide open layup. My team mates will not jump to block a shot after the opposing PG flies by me. But when I beat an opposing PG literally every defender jumps on me dog pile style. myPark is fun until you run into the 99ovr guy who is 99ovr on the damned 3rd day of the game being out (and playable) So that's pay to win, pointless. The entire game is designed to make you feel like you have to spend money to get VC to play well in myCareer, get cards in myTeam, do well in myPark presumably to do well in myGM. This appears to be a pretty dead eyed version of candy crush in terms of trying to get people to spend extra money on an already 70 dollar game.

    Also the sound keeps fading in and out which is really annoying.    … Full Review »
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