NBA 2K17

 PC
Metascore
90

Universal acclaim - 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
  1. Game Informer
    Sep 21, 2016
    95
    In the world of sports sims, no other game feels like it’s even on the same level as NBA 2K17. Visual Concepts continues to embrace innovation and add benchmark-setting features for hardcore fans. With unrivaled gameplay, presentation, and game modes, 2K Sports’ latest hoops game is a must-play for all sports fans.
  2. Ragequit.gr
    Sep 26, 2016
    90
    NBA 2K17 strives for perfection and, in many ways, it succeeds. It definitely is an impressive step forward, offering rich and deep game modes, exciting and realistic gameplay and stunning visuals. Although it can be demanding at times, it is one of the most rewarding experiences we’ve witnessed, a must play sport simulation for anyone who loves basketball and the NBA.
  3. Riot Pixels
    Nov 25, 2016
    88
    Visual Concepts just needs to add some spit and polish to turn this game into the best sports sim of our time.
  5. GameStar
    Oct 8, 2016
    88
    This year NBA 2K rocks again, but the onmipresent in-game currency casts a shadow over the career mode.
  6. Game Debate
    Oct 1, 2016
    85
    From an outsider looking in this is a heck of a good sports game. Full featured with heaps to do and gorgeous to look at. I can only imagine how fantastic NBA 2K17 is for true fans of the sport, but even for a newbie like me it's an entertaining and comprehensive package that contains heaps to do.
  7. Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey)
    Sep 19, 2016
    85
    NBA 2K17 is truly one of the most intense basketball games ever made. It has some glitches, but still, those factors are not enough to make this game a bad product. It truly is a must-play.

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User Score
5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 90 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 47 out of 90
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 90
  3. Negative: 34 out of 90
  1. kozzy420
    Sep 21, 2016
    10
    This is the best 2k basketball game since 2k8 imo. They have improved nearly every aspect and also added some awesome new features to. TheThis is the best 2k basketball game since 2k8 imo. They have improved nearly every aspect and also added some awesome new features to. The game has so much depth to, I can see spending hundreds of hours on this game easy. It runs well, My career is very improved, the game looks gorgeous, plays the best the series ever has gameplay wise and the presentation has been turned up a notch to.

    The only gripe I have with the game is I wish you had the option to skip the cut scenes in my career.

    Also you don't need to spend a penny, I have owned every 2k game since the very first one and NEVER, I repeat, NEVER bought any VC (in game currency). You have the option to if you want you're player to be GREAT right off the bat, but what is the fun in that? I enjoy bringing my player from someone who is meh to someone who is an all time great. That games grit and determination in real life and in this game. I have neve felt like I HAD to spend extra money in this game, I just look at it as an option for those who are not the best at the game or who are impatient. I get a good amount of VC by playing my career, doing street ball games to 21, doing my team and the odd quick match with my pacers. If you know basketball well and don't mind a challenge early on this is a fantastic mode that is the best it has been this year.    … Full Review »
  2. mphilanthropist
    Sep 22, 2016
    10
    I changed the speed of the game at 32. The career mode great. The content of the game very extensive. Gafika is amazing. Animations players onI changed the speed of the game at 32. The career mode great. The content of the game very extensive. Gafika is amazing. Animations players on the field is the highest level. Even RPGgame may worse animation while walking only one hero! One of the few games created with passion.
    This is the game!
    P.S. pisses me off just shaking the camera during free throws.

    This is the best game of basketball since the NBA Street on PS2 so I give 10.    … Full Review »
  3. Sk3z
    Jan 28, 2017
    4
    Long story short, this game has been developed year after year to become an arousing and visually stunning experience full of real worldLong story short, this game has been developed year after year to become an arousing and visually stunning experience full of real world references and endorsements. Actual, basketball, gameplay is very marginalized compared to the visual content 2k is adding every year.

    This 2k industry is showcasing the NBA brand as a whole. While doing this, they are involving the users in their own social network. This media industry broadcast, ingame, perfectly shot "tv-shows", tries to involve people into their Esport-ish experience, while pulling prizes etcetera.

    Being the company mission to sell the NBA brand and to bring more fans and fanatics into the NBA franchise, they have to represent it in a certain way. and they excell in this. Me myself, have started to follow NBA intensively while playing this game over the years.

    As i said, the company tries and delivers the best possible visuals a game could deliver in this videogame era. The animations in the game are, nowadays, countless. For each and every little move, they have a huge database of motion capture material. Most of it taken directly from the NBA players to better represent them. This galvanize, and most importantly, spoil the eye.

    To link these animations alltogether, yet, is a problem. It's a drawback to the gameplay.
    To represent a fadeaway and the d from two different build of players, in a realistic way to the eye, means that the control the player has shall be taken away to a certain degree. Controls in this game are the most unresponsive in ANY sport game to present day.

    The problem, with this, is that being the company mission what said above, considering this game is almost a monopoly over the genre, and considering the game entertains the players with the huge amount of visual content... considering all that, the controls being unresponsive is not an issue to the 2k industry. The controls being unresponsive, ITS A FEATURE.
    It's the company "guarantee" that what will be shown on the screen it's visually stunning and entertain to watch, as close to "reality" as possible.

    THE AI will be the same on any settings, because that's the representation of an NBA game this company wants to show; but most importantly, it's the best they can deliver WHILE fitting the animations alltogether, and all the variables regarding the statistics of every single player potrayed ingame.

    To make everything believable, numbers HAS to be shown in a believable way. Statistic shall get close to "reality". While this being almost impossible (and ultimately failing to a certain degree, and most surely to the more exigent players), the player in this big hard equation, is a noisance, a variable that the game engine has to control, to limit, so that it won't break the movie the way it has to be potrayed.

    WE ALL HOPE one day they'll solve the franchise problems (listing a few, to represent the most):
    -defenders sticking like glue to your player, while snapping magically out of hard d when YOU try to defend them
    -defenders stealing the ball from you as soon as the ball collides to ANY other physical model on the court, while completely ignoring this rule when it's the ai attacking.
    -passes responding to IQ statistics more than player choice (meaning easy assist are a nono, better to pass to the unreachable teammate behind 4 defenders)
    -space-time continuum obliterations in the extraordinary ability of the defenders to leap in the air or to close up crossing all the field in the split of an eye blink just to avoid you to score an easy one.
    -teammates that neverever GTFO your free path to the basked (and blocking you when you are trying to defend the paint)
    -and so on
    BUT, there's no reason to believe this will actyally ever happen.... PROBLEMS WON'T BE SOLVED, for two main reasons:

    1- to represent, with endorsements, and with motion capture, and licences and stuff, this big show of the NBA they need HUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY. -> to get money they are pushing hard the online competition so that people is pulled down into the BUY TO WIN vc market. while wasting real money on stupid shirts and animations, haircuts etcetera -> since the online competition it's so central to the mission to make this game as eye candy as possible, gameplay can't change too much from one game to the other, because the central rule of an E-SPORT is that the game stays the same over time (or people can't become better at it if the rules change).
    2- Being visually stunning and having build this huge money machine (the two things, as we have seen, are deeply but intricately involved), playing this game spoils the eye and the player to the point that ANY COMPETITION will seem awkward and unpolished in comparison, even if the gameplay of these competing games it's actually BETTER and FUNNIER. Being the sole game on the market, means they have no reason to change and tweak their winning horse. Don't buy this game, they don't care about gameplay and only want your money.    … Full Review »
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