NBA 2K17

 Xbox One
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5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 144 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 71 out of 144
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 144
  3. Negative: 50 out of 144
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  1. EverydayIDecay
    Feb 9, 2017
    1
    At some point the 2K Sports team stopped listening to the fans of the game. Whether it's because they think it's to a point where they are just going to buy the game every year, because of what it is. Gameplay has now been cut and pasted three years strait. They still have not brought back the full online association. Servers are still horrendous (see 2K After Dark). Fans have been voicingAt some point the 2K Sports team stopped listening to the fans of the game. Whether it's because they think it's to a point where they are just going to buy the game every year, because of what it is. Gameplay has now been cut and pasted three years strait. They still have not brought back the full online association. Servers are still horrendous (see 2K After Dark). Fans have been voicing major issues and 2K has not listened just continue on there way. One thing that really bugs me individually and have tweeted 2K regarding issues such as online league games do not earn you VCs! This renders this mode useless. 2K has become EA Sports after getting to the top.… Expand
  2. Stefan_ManUtd
    Mar 23, 2017
    0
    It is only good if you play it once in a while like the reviewers did but if you want to actually become good at it, you'll realize how cheesy and scripted it is. If you're the better player, 2K is gonna help the other guy however they can and it's gonna become extremely frustrating which is the last thing you want from a game.
  3. xbox360toOneS
    Nov 29, 2016
    0
    I have both NBA2K17 for Xbox 360 and Xbox One S. It is two different games. I prefer the Xbox 360 version, easier to access what you want and make rotation decisions easier. One S version looks great, but playing isn't fun. The shoot bar is inconsistent, the coaching and defensive changes is cumbersome. What a waste of my money and time. Had I known, I would never have bough Xbox OneI have both NBA2K17 for Xbox 360 and Xbox One S. It is two different games. I prefer the Xbox 360 version, easier to access what you want and make rotation decisions easier. One S version looks great, but playing isn't fun. The shoot bar is inconsistent, the coaching and defensive changes is cumbersome. What a waste of my money and time. Had I known, I would never have bough Xbox One S with NBA2K17.… Expand
  4. irez4tips
    Dec 29, 2016
    1
    game is great when it works, but sadly thats almost never. can never connect to 2k servers, offline isnt worth playing no connection limits game modes too much. error code after error code and no hope to connect led me to stop playing all together. fix your servers 2k and this **** might be fun, i do not recommend buying this game.
  5. sincitysfinest
    Nov 17, 2016
    3
    The online game modes are trash. Mycareer has tons of bugs like no audience and random black screens. Archetypes for mycareer were clearly meant for esports and mypark balance, but there's no way to actually create an NBA superstar of your choosing. Curry's got the play making, jump shot, and slashing ability all combined into one, but your player's only restricted to one play style! EvenThe online game modes are trash. Mycareer has tons of bugs like no audience and random black screens. Archetypes for mycareer were clearly meant for esports and mypark balance, but there's no way to actually create an NBA superstar of your choosing. Curry's got the play making, jump shot, and slashing ability all combined into one, but your player's only restricted to one play style! Even if you create a sharpshooter, get all the hall of fame badges, and play online with a maxed out jump shot and get a near perfect release on a jumper, you'll still miss way too many wide open shots, yet slashers who can't shoot make jumpers all day. Myteam's dead with the packs and boxes costing as much as the game itself for some worthless, downgraded players down the road. Offline game play is good. They added a whole new set of commentators and players actually play like themselves. The only problem is the horrible new substitution and play calling menus.… Expand
  6. TimeOfTheChimps
    Nov 7, 2016
    3
    Though MyLEAGUE is vastly improved, there are still too many flaws that bring it down: MyPlayer caps are absolutely ridiculous this go around, it's still a game of animations determining everything (along with more bumping cheese animations in MyCAREER, and defenders that still stick to you like glue), my Dream Team preorder went nearly a month without showing up, and 2K still hasn'tThough MyLEAGUE is vastly improved, there are still too many flaws that bring it down: MyPlayer caps are absolutely ridiculous this go around, it's still a game of animations determining everything (along with more bumping cheese animations in MyCAREER, and defenders that still stick to you like glue), my Dream Team preorder went nearly a month without showing up, and 2K still hasn't released a roster update (meanwhile, they're trying to get you to buy VC packs and MyTEAM cards). And this is just barely scratching the surface, honestly. That is unacceptable and just proves that without any true competition, 2K doesn't really care about satisfying their customers anymore, just milking $$$ from them.… Expand
  7. kimdba
    Nov 6, 2016
    0
    Even after I paid $60 the greedy 2K wants me to pay more to properly enjoy the game. If they wanted me to pay more then they should've made the game good in the first place. I 100% regret I bought this garbage. Whatever you click, loading time is everywhere
  8. webprinz
    Nov 6, 2016
    3
    This Game is absolutly trash... I mean the Story is good but the whole game has a lot of Bugs ans issues and the Support whont even hear and help you. In this game I've played a lot on MyPark and myCareer and I have to say I never had so much problems with a Game like this trash NBA 2k17. NBA 2k16 was also **** with all the Bugs and issues but this Year 2K build a much much more **** game.This Game is absolutly trash... I mean the Story is good but the whole game has a lot of Bugs ans issues and the Support whont even hear and help you. In this game I've played a lot on MyPark and myCareer and I have to say I never had so much problems with a Game like this trash NBA 2k17. NBA 2k16 was also **** with all the Bugs and issues but this Year 2K build a much much more **** game.
    In my Career the audience vanished and some of the graphics are stuttering around, followed by a gamecrash so that you have to play a game maybe 2 or 3 times in a row to get it done. In MyPark I had issues like: The Game crashed after one game, laggy as hell you cant hit the bucket because of the shotmeter lags, then I cant travel anymore to Rival Parks even when I try my game crashed.
    This game has tons and tons of Issues, and I realy like NBA but this game is annoying as hell and wasted time to play. I have sworn to buy no more game from 2K because the Support ist **** the Games are full of problems and you can't play anyway. I had NBA 2K17 since the release, i've started hardcore playing the game for around 1 Week and I didn't care about the problems... But after that the Problems care even when you have to play a game over and over again or you just want to play and relax and the game is crashing all the time....

    2K ? NBA ? No way.    … Expand
  9. PrettyboyFredo
    Feb 13, 2017
    0
    NBA 2k 17 review

    Pros: Roster updates if needed Real life graphics Many game modes to choose from Online gaming is involved Internet if you want to play online Cons: Server sucks Lag issues Freezes at multiple screens Updates take forever to end Pay money for career Storage NBA 2k 17 is a game that was made in late September of 2016.The game costs 60$ which is a little    NBA 2k 17 review

    Pros:
    Roster updates if needed
    Real life graphics
    Many game modes to choose from
    Online gaming is involved
    Internet if you want to play online

    Cons:
    Server sucks
    Lag issues
    Freezes at multiple screens
    Updates take forever to end
    Pay money for career
    Storage

    NBA 2k 17 is a game that was made in late September of 2016.The game costs 60$ which is a little pricey but it’s worth it. When fully installed it has you make a Mycareer player and has these architect players to choose from. It gives you many decisions to choose from like being a slasher that is good at dunking or if you want to be a great shooter then I’d say go with a sharpshooter but they also don’t play the best of defense online playing against other players. If you want to be a player who gets other players mad then go ahead and make a glass cleaner who sets screens and grabs all the rebounds and out of nowhere can make threes. These are some of the architect players you can choose from.

    2k focuses on the gamemode Mycareer and all the other game modes are off to the side. In Mycareer I would personally choose a slasher or a point forward because they are a small forward and can shoot threes wide open and if you have your grand badge then it seems like it gives your low three an upgrade to shoot better. When you start up your player you have to pick a college and play 5 games to see how good you are and get drafted by a team and continue to get better and soon win a ring for your team. 2k had added another player who got drafted to your team and his name is Justice Young and he is played by the guy who played in the movie “Creed” his name is Michael B. Jordan. As you and Justice rise to become the best players on the team you guys get a specific nickname called “Orange Juice” and a secret handshake. When you go onto your Mycourt and shoot around and if you have Xbox 1 then you press the B button and go to Mypark which is an online game mode that sends you to a park and you can go with a squad of whoever you have in your court and you can go with them to a court and play other online players. At first other players might think you’re trash but this game mode is where you can show your skills to other players.

    The other game mode that I play the most after Mycareer is Myteam. Myteam is a gamemode where you start out choosing a player pack and you get a two players that are good and you have them for 5 games then it’s your turn to build your team with all the player you can get. The ways you can get players are by going to the Auction House and choosing what kind of player you want from all the positions. You can buy players with money known as MT and you get MT from playing these games in Myteam called Domination and you compete with your team and try and beat all 33 teams that there are till you move on to Historical Domination. The first team that you play are the 76ers and the teams start to get better as you move on past teams. All of the things that I have brought up have been the Pros I’ve had while playing 2k.

    The biggest Con I have witnessed was that the game freezes at the main screen and the only way to fix the problem was that I had to redownload the game and wait 45 minutes to continue playing. Other cons have been that there is so much lag issues and I get really mad about it and so do my friends that I play with. In Career it takes a while to get 5k vc which is how you upgrade your player and a lot of players aren’t patient so they go to purchase 20$ or more of vc and upgrade their players to the max. It helps our players but it also wastes our money that we could’ve used to buy something else. For the console itself the game takes up 66 percent of storage that I have and to play online gaming I need to have internet. All these Cons should be resolved in 2k18 when it comes out this coming September.

    Overall this 2k has been one of the best ones and also one of the worsts because it has a lot of options but it also holds a lot of gigabytes and uses most of the storage you are given. Hopefully this review helped you to choose either Xbox 1 or PS4 because it’s trash on Xbox 1.    … Expand
  10. ChumpI
    Sep 18, 2016
    3
    Im not trolling id just rather be honest about the game, i loved every 2k and this one took dribbling completely out of the game, its awful. the graphics are good but the game itself, gameplay wise is poor. its obvious.
  11. zerox505
    Oct 14, 2016
    1
    a game that **** with the low attention span of an ape will enjoy, if you like playing the same game year after year after year, this game is for you. If you actually have a brain, you will know this game is trash.
  12. Kawhi4mvp
    Aug 14, 2017
    0
    This game is absolutely terrible. There is no such thing as skill this year. Animations control the game. Whether you have a good performance or not is determined by what animation you get. I made a slasher as I always do and I am disappointed that I have difficulty making open dunks. Some of the bad animations in this game include air ball dunks (seriously, when have you ever seen an NBAThis game is absolutely terrible. There is no such thing as skill this year. Animations control the game. Whether you have a good performance or not is determined by what animation you get. I made a slasher as I always do and I am disappointed that I have difficulty making open dunks. Some of the bad animations in this game include air ball dunks (seriously, when have you ever seen an NBA Player air ball a dunk?), getting dragged into screens and falling over, eurostep out of bounds, getting dragged into a stripping animation when you have an open dunk or layup, passing to the wrong person when a teammate is wide open, cocking the ball back on dunks against your will and consistently getting blocked just to name a few. 6'2" playmakers should not be able to block 7'3" glass cleaners, it just doesn't make sense. Since 2k pretty much has had a monopoly on video game basketball for the past 10 years they have stopped putting in effort since they know we will buy the game and vc every year. Hopefully the rising of nba live has made them put in extra effort this year to be better. It is ridiculous how long the grind takes for your MyPlayer. It takes 150,000 VC to get your player to an 87 overall even though they are pretty much role players. 150,000 VC is $40 by the way. I bought 75,000 VC and it still took me a month of playing 3 hours a day to get my player to an 87 overall with all hall of fame badges, and he still misses open dunks and layups. The archetype system is terrible. Why should we have to spend a month of our time just so we can get a player who can only shoot 3's or only rebound etc. Stick skills don't matter. The only players who consistently win are those who find flaws in the game and continue to exploit them. The same parks just show no effort by the development team. The servers are constantly laggy, and the only way that you can win a lot is if the animations go your way. I feel like giving this game a 0 rating is much too high, and I would give it a negative rating if I could. Hopefully the series gets better and the team stops slacking off because it is seriously starting to get frustrating.… Expand
  13. Ambushstealth
    Jan 1, 2017
    1
    I don't even know where to start, this game has so many problems. Pro-Am walk on is broken; my park is glitchy; 2k servers are down almost all the time; glitch animations ruin the game; ratings don't make sense; 2k releases a patch every month and makes the game worse. I bought this game and thought it would be an upgrade from 2k16... I was definitely wrong
  14. kydefa
    Mar 17, 2017
    4
    I've played many NBA 2Ks, and this one was the most disappointing. The game looks beautiful, but...

    Two words. Load times. You spend half the game waiting for things to load. You practice for two minutes and it takes to minutes to load. Also, I love some realism in games, but not 100% realism. I don't want to practce to make my player better. Practice in real life is boring, so why    I've played many NBA 2Ks, and this one was the most disappointing. The game looks beautiful, but...

    Two words. Load times. You spend half the game waiting for things to load. You practice for two minutes and it takes to minutes to load.

    Also, I love some realism in games, but not 100% realism. I don't want to practce to make my player better. Practice in real life is boring, so why would I want to    … Expand

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#4 Best Xbox One Game of 2016
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#28 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2016
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#30 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2016

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Metascore
90

Universal acclaim - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Nov 1, 2016
    70
    Simulates all the slam dunks and shoe contracts, but it could use a little polish. [Dec 2016, p.79]
  2. Digitally Downloaded
    Oct 10, 2016
    80
    Without a doubt NBA 2K17 is the best basketball game on the market so far.
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  3. Digital Spy
    Oct 4, 2016
    100
    The action on the court is fast, fluid and accessible, but with enough depth and detail to keep you hooked for the long haul.
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