NBA 2K15

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  1. gabriot
    Oct 26, 2014
    2
    Is an upgrade form 2K14 even saying much? This game just sucks. Everytime there is an update it just exits you out of the game without warning and you lose your progress while it patches the update. The game is glitch central - you'll be hard pressed to find a game where your entire team doesn't teleport at least once or twice.

    The controls are just plain horrid. It's like I'm    Is an upgrade form 2K14 even saying much? This game just sucks. Everytime there is an update it just exits you out of the game without warning and you lose your progress while it patches the update. The game is glitch central - you'll be hard pressed to find a game where your entire team doesn't teleport at least once or twice.

    The controls are just plain horrid. It's like I'm playing in an ice rink with the way your guys just slight away from a quick flick of the control stick. My player mode is once again a joke. Try to guard someone and see just how "fun" this game is on defense. Something as simple as being able to follow someone on D is Dark Souls level hard, not because of actual good game design and challenge, but because figuring out the random ass controls is about as unintuitive as it comes. I guess it would be too much to ask for to be able to just oh I don't know.... HAVE YOUR GUY MOVE ALONG WITH WHAT YOUR CONTROL STICK IS TELLING HIM TO DO.

    But no, not in this game. In this game if you have the ball near the top of the 3 point line, and you catch a pass where your control stick was even slightly moving backward, you'll get the "pleasure" of watching your guy run all the way into the backcourt and force a turnover, the whole time your control stick will be pressed forward but it won't do a damn bit of good.

    You'll have the "pleasure" of hitting the block button when someone goes up for a shot, only to have your block register through 2 seconds later, and get minus points for bad block attempt, and letting your man score.

    You'll have the "pleasure" of performing a dribble move to juke a defender, leaving a wide open lane to the basket, only to have the **** un-cancellable animation of your ball handler take the 2 extra seconds it needs to complete, and by that time your guy will be drawn like a magnet back to his defender.

    It is the worst controls I think I've ever had the displeasure of having to deal with in a sports game. They've never been good, but this **** company seems to somehow top their awfulness with each successive release of the game.

    Nothing makes sense in the my player mode either, as per usual with this franchise. When it's time to sub-in, you have to wait to watch the next play before you get to come in, and it's always whomever get's the rebound, randomly calling a timeout. Makes total sense, right? What a great feature, having your gameplay delayed just to watch the absolutely retarded AI retardly play against each other for a possession, followed by a retardedly called timeout, just so you can get in and watch your guy retardedly try and follow what you input into the controls.

    The game fails on so many levels, but hey, they paid off the review sites so people will keep buying their awful product. Such is the modern state of gaming. Yay.    … Expand
  2. internetguy1979
    Dec 23, 2014
    0
    NBA 2K15 the worst NBA 2K in the last 5 years. fuk you 2K SPORTS, fuk your servers, your jerky gameplay and lagged fuked up game 0, thats wat you deserve for making me pay money every year without improving the game or the servers
  3. chunyu19
    Feb 16, 2015
    4
    I can't see any ways to rate this game over 5 points. Actually, its not a basketball game at all, as ALL you need is to follow the Game "Play", when you brought the ball forward, the game would call "Play"... what you have to do is to follow what the coach ordered you, if you did not follow it....you teammates will be acted like RUBBISH ....with NO deadly pass, NO 3 pts shoot, NO allyoop,I can't see any ways to rate this game over 5 points. Actually, its not a basketball game at all, as ALL you need is to follow the Game "Play", when you brought the ball forward, the game would call "Play"... what you have to do is to follow what the coach ordered you, if you did not follow it....you teammates will be acted like RUBBISH ....with NO deadly pass, NO 3 pts shoot, NO allyoop, NO pick & roll, NO spacing... they would have low (or even NO) A.I.

    If you followed the "Play", then you will feel the game playing you, but not you playing the game....When you cannot run as you like, you cannot even shoot (if you are a PF, who aimed to make screens, box-out, rebound...), you cannot do what you really want... is it still a game?

    Don't trust the game site or what Critic Reviews, as they are not the gamer who really played the game.    … Expand
  4. 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 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    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.    … Expand
  5. 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 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 theConsidering 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.    … Expand
  6. 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 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 withThe 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.… Expand
  7. RustyJames
    Oct 10, 2014
    1
    Don't waste your money and time for this "next-gen, rly?" game...
    First of all, i wanted to see the brand new Nba 2k, with excellent game experience, like watching basketball with ability to control all stars. BUT ! Of course, all your expectations will be ruined.
    It's the same Nba 2k14 with tons of bugs, annoying controls, terrible AI, terrible gameplay, terrible physics, pretty good    Don't waste your money and time for this "next-gen, rly?" game...
    First of all, i wanted to see the brand new Nba 2k, with excellent game experience, like watching basketball with ability to control all stars. BUT ! Of course, all your expectations will be ruined.
    It's the same Nba 2k14 with tons of bugs, annoying controls, terrible AI, terrible gameplay, terrible physics, pretty good OST and playable MyCareer mode. BUT ! With "new" graphics, which is absolutely average nowadays!
    So, next gen is just a marketing, which branding the graphics level from low (in 2k14) to middle (2k15), but the graphics engine seems non optimized at all, so you gonna enjoy freezes and lags, if you don't have high-end PC. I don't want to waste my nerves and time in this game anymore. Soccer is much better game on PC.    … Expand
  8. rakdek
    Oct 20, 2014
    0
    **** game. Feels really sluggish to controller maybe its better on keyboard. Guys on defense have feet stuck in quicksand on hall of fame difficulty. Cannot perform hustle plays even with highest attribute being athletic. I feel lied to because this was supposed to be an improvement from 2k14. But in fact takes a huge step back by requiring constant online play as well as a blantantly**** game. Feels really sluggish to controller maybe its better on keyboard. Guys on defense have feet stuck in quicksand on hall of fame difficulty. Cannot perform hustle plays even with highest attribute being athletic. I feel lied to because this was supposed to be an improvement from 2k14. But in fact takes a huge step back by requiring constant online play as well as a blantantly obvious attempt to be a cash grab with microtransactions a part of the mycareer menu without even including a menu to talk to the GM as in previous iterations of the game. Why would you remove previous features of the game and then make it abundantly clear that you can purchase points.… Expand
  9. igor02
    Nov 13, 2014
    0
    The game is completely bugged. Gameplay isn't as reality. You can't play normal.Graphic maybe looks is better, but not it's too bugged. I don't recommend it anyone. And optimisation is on low level.
  10. Cannily
    Mar 11, 2015
    1
    I am not a Basketball fan, but I love this game.
    MyCareer is the only mode I play, because, like I said, I have no interest in the NBA whatsoever, but this mode is the best way I have ever played a Career Mode in any game before.
    I really love the RPG aspect. And the game itself is never boring and countless times I was under adrenalin like it was a real match and not "just" a game.    I am not a Basketball fan, but I love this game.
    MyCareer is the only mode I play, because, like I said, I have no interest in the NBA whatsoever, but this mode is the best way I have ever played a Career Mode in any game before.
    I really love the RPG aspect. And the game itself is never boring and countless times I was under adrenalin like it was a real match and not "just" a game.
    But, and this one is a big but, you have to be always online to have a full game here. Without a connection to the 2k Servers you can only play something like a demo. It is no fun at all.
    Yes we have 2015 and I myself are always on anyway, but I hate to be forced to be online to play a purchased game, only that they can sell there stupid ingame currency (virtual coins).
    Like I said, I am always on anyway and it is a sad trend in recent years so I wouldn't mind it that much.
    The big issue here is, that the 2K Servers are really bad. Like now, there is no connection to them since 3 days (!) which is unacceptable for a game which forces you to always be online. Since 3 days I can't play more than a demo and with me countless players worldwide.
    Besides that, if you use Win 10 you have no way to connect to the Servers all the time!
    I read today, that at the end of this month the Servers for the predecessor 2k14 will be shut down. Which means, that the game 2k15, which I bought last month, will be more than a demo only for a year.
    Because of that and the Server connection fail, I give this great game, which deserves otherwise a 9/10 or even 10/10, a 1/10 rating! And I feel generous for this 1 point.    … Expand
  11. topotamolder
    Dec 23, 2014
    0
    Game feels outdated compared to other sports games. They have been using the same engine since the dreamcast-ps2 era. There are no physics on this game, just canned animations.

    It's the last 2k game I buy until they finally decide to work on improving the game and implement some kind of realistic physics engine, like NHL or Fifa do
  12. V3XUS
    Nov 8, 2014
    1
    This game brings a lot to the table, but doesn't deliver. Almost half of the features are either horrid or broken to the extent that they're unplayable. The grading system is broken, the mechanics are broken, and most importantly, your player is broken.

    If you want to play real basketball, play it on the console.
  13. Atirus_Gaming
    Nov 30, 2021
    2
    I gave this **** a 5 and i'm gonna tell you why. The higher difficulty modes make your teammates retarded schoolyard players and the opposing team players ALL MICHAEL JORDAN skilled players. Forget playing Hall of Fame mode, unless you like being frustrated beyond anything that has ever pissed you off before in a game! Your teammates will suck and you will lose...A LOT! If the opposingI gave this **** a 5 and i'm gonna tell you why. The higher difficulty modes make your teammates retarded schoolyard players and the opposing team players ALL MICHAEL JORDAN skilled players. Forget playing Hall of Fame mode, unless you like being frustrated beyond anything that has ever pissed you off before in a game! Your teammates will suck and you will lose...A LOT! If the opposing team is shooting over 50% throughout the game forget about a win. Also if you are winning going into the 4th quarter, beware AI CHEESE!!! For instance one game I was up 9 points with 8 minutes left in the 4th quarter...all of sudden the basket had a top on it for every one of my teammates. We couldn't score if our life depended on it. But the opposing team scored 17 straight points!!! 17!!!! For 4 and a half minutes we didn't score a damn point. In fact to make it worse my teammates were making bad passes. Turned over the ball 3 times on bull**** passes and they were shooting some of the worse shots I had ever seen in my life! And get this...NEVER PASSING THE BALL TO ME...even when I called for it.
    Also prepared to be double teamed if you are playing awesome. And it doesn't matter if the opposing team is winning or not. They will still double team your ass no matter what. When in the **** do you see that happening in a NBA game?!?!? When in the 1st quarter does a team who is winning, starts double teaming an opposing player just cause he made 3 of his first 4 shots?!?! I'll tell you when...****ING NEVER!!!!!
    Lets talk about defense. Doesn't exist! In Hall of Fame mode your teammates will let guys just walk on right pass them to the hoop! Forget about boxing out! The AI doesn't even know what the **** that is! In fact you will get out-rebounded on offensive rebounds almost 2 to 1 in almost every...****ing...game!
    Oh you might get on a winning streak, 2 or 3 games...but on a tear of like 8 or 10 games? Never gonna happen. Think you might win that championship in your first season? You might. Maybe 1 out of like 100 tries! Hall of Fame mode is complete BULL****! AI in that mode is complete BULL****!
    Why make difficulty modes? Why not make a basketball that is challenging but also not complete bull**** that still follows the fundamentals of NBA basketball? If you go to a lower difficulty level within a 10 games you will find the game TOO EASY. Go to Hall of Fame mode...you will instantly hate this game. Not because its a terribly game but because of the drastic changes in AI behavior. Its garbage. The game is fun to play and has its moments. But if you are looking for a challenge...look somewhere else. Unless of course you like getting frustrated with your NBA games.    … Expand
  14. WaruMonzae
    Dec 25, 2014
    0
    Just another game of the series with a update sports roster like usual, nothing special. 59.99 for updated roster, just stick with whatever NBA game you currently have.
  15. youarefat
    Jan 9, 2015
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The player you control ALWAYS has exaggerated physics things happened. (like skating when running on-ball defense) CPU players don't know what is physics. They may move toward basket, then next moment just jump high toward 3-point line and almost block my shot...
    7" run as fast as a speed and quickness fully upgraded PG?
    And the most stupid thing is that WHO WILL EVER RUN A TRANSITION DEFENSE LIKE THAT?

    Graphics are good and story is interesting, but the rest is garbage.    … Expand
  16. Notbad
    Jun 26, 2015
    3
    I love nba 2k series. But why i can't connect server! I saw many same problems, but i doesn't see any other fix. Well, they are always caught fish do not care, i know it. I found this problem two month ago, and I'm still not solve this problem.
  17. aghajavad
    Apr 14, 2016
    4
    It seems like every year, 2K sports finds a way to make the series worse. Now I don't play online, so this review is purely regarding offline gameplay and features.

    Pros: 1. MyGM feature has been very entertaining. Not considering the gameplay, managing a team is fun. Hiring and firing coaches and staff, telling players "you're your boy, blue", scouting, trading, relocating, all-star    It seems like every year, 2K sports finds a way to make the series worse. Now I don't play online, so this review is purely regarding offline gameplay and features.

    Pros:
    1. MyGM feature has been very entertaining. Not considering the gameplay, managing a team is fun. Hiring and firing coaches and staff, telling players "you're your boy, blue", scouting, trading, relocating, all-star weekend, summer league, free agency, budget allocation, ticket prices, jersey sells, they are all there.
    2. Including high school and college has been an excellent addition to the myCareer. Actually, it was the only positive thing about myCareer.
    Cons:
    1. The my player feature was one feature that kept getting better each year, but every since 2K14 and introduction of Virtual Currency, they ruined the game. This year, they made it even worse by taking away the experience of being a pro in an NBA. Spike turned my career into one of his crappy movies, filled with stereotypes and soap opera chaos on the screen. It looked like a reality show and opposite of what you would expect as a virtual player representing you.
    2. Game play got worse in many aspects. Defenders gain ability to run faster than the ball, quickly close down on any open player, and rotate while being able to guard two players. Um... have you guys seen an actual NBA game? If defenders in real life were able to do those, Warriors and Spurs wouldn't dominate the league right now.
    3. Real life Curry is more video game like than 2k15. In this game, he misses open shots. Even if the defender is slightly close to him, he fades and throws an airball. While real life Curry drills threes with even slightest of separations from defenders.
    4. Why can't we use legends in Blacktop? the whole point of Blacktop is to play Lebron, Kobe and Curry against Jordan, Magic and Bird.
    5. Seriously, remove screw the VC crap, player progression cap, and include all the cool customization features that are in online mycareer but are completely absent in offline mode.
    6. Pick and roll defense is terrible. The bigs have absolutely no idea what to do when doing pick and rolls. they need some artificial intelligence to know when to switch and when to stay with their man based on the players involved in pick and roll.
    7. We see players like Harden and Otto Porter fall sleep in defense in shaqtin a fool, but based on 2k15 standards, falling sleep in defense in a norm.    … Expand
  18. CountDarkness
    Feb 7, 2019
    3
    Recently i update my Desktop computer so i decided to try a new nba2k game series...i've been playing 2k12 for 5 years now... so time to move on... so i played 2k15... i got exited by the graphics and all the "real-life" things the agent,the locker room chats with other player,so on and on.... but then it came the game playing it self... and all the good impression came down like anRecently i update my Desktop computer so i decided to try a new nba2k game series...i've been playing 2k12 for 5 years now... so time to move on... so i played 2k15... i got exited by the graphics and all the "real-life" things the agent,the locker room chats with other player,so on and on.... but then it came the game playing it self... and all the good impression came down like an avalanche... it's horrible in every way... defending it's impossible...i can't try to make steals.. 2 on 3 is foul! the time reaction of the movement of the play is completely of timing! the "sprinting" has no diference what so ever! on the ofense.. i dont know when the want us to make a scree.. cause either you stand 5 seconds waiting for anyone to go throught the screen or if you make a quick screen you get called ofensive foul... shooting is pretty horrendus.. no logic whatsoever.. i know i can't it all the shoots but.. ending games with 25% in shootin it's a bit ridiculous.. sprinting it also unexisting ! and what about fast breaks? you get open floor to run you ask for the ball.... and nothing!!
    When you cannot run as you like, you cannot even shoot or pass, you cannot do what you really want... is it still a game?
    and then you think: ahhhhhh maybe it's because you have to improve your player! i have points lets go improve it! But then you see...wtf! i only get point's if i play EVERY SINGLE GAME!! then you make an effort to play bunch of games in a row...go sleep later and dont do anything else.. and after couple days you see ALMOST ZERO improvement! decision? sorry mates time to uninstall the game...
    I don't understand this "new" paradigm of gaming.. GAMES ARE MEANT TO DISTRACT! AMUSE! RELAX! NOT TO BE LIFE DRAINING AND STRESS BOOSTING TO PEOPLE!
    There's more in life then playing games.. so please make them amusing and fun to play again! PLEASSSSSSSSSSSE!!!!    … Expand

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  1. 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.
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  2. 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.
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  3. 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.
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