With a bunch of new features, and promises of improvement in the visuals and AI department, does NBA 2K12 Rock The Baby and jam it home with authority?Īs it stands, an accurate basketball simulation would involve the likes of Lebron James and Kobe Bryant knocking about at home, doing nothing. Last year I was, in the comfort of my own home, just a spectacular afro away from feeling like Dr J. Being a thirty-something games reviewer, who is a long time fan of the sport, but an abomination of a player when I actually attempt to shoot some real-life hoops, 2K games gave me the opportunity to feel like a proper armchair basketball superstar, such is the high quality of their output. Pre-season games and training camps have been nixed, many of the regular season games have been cancelled or are under threat of being axed, and some players, unsure about when the stalemate, a ding-dong between the National Basketball Players Association and NBA owners over salary cap negotiations amongst other things, have decided to up sticks and sign contracts to play for top European sides.Īlthough there were some moans about suspect AI and dodgy graphics, in particular the animation of the players, NBA 2K11 was, up to now, the pinnacle of pure basketball simulation videogames. Given the current lockout that threatens to cripple the forthcoming NBA season before it has started, there isn’t a great deal of stuff for basketball fans to get excited about right now.
Available on: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, iOS, PC (Reviewed on Xbox 360)