NBA 2K17

A team from Visual Concepts continues to make the most incredible and realistic sports simulator. NBA 2K17 is a basketball simulator for basketball fans. You can download NBA 2K17 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation4.

Graphics: 5

Thanks to some improvements, the gameplay, graphics, and atmosphere during the fights in NBA 2K17 became more detailed and realistic. It turns out that 2K Sports managed to create the most spectacular and realistic sports simulator of the year. However, according to some NBA 2K17 reviews, the appearance of some players, i.e., legs and arms doesn't correspond to the real one. In addition to that, some users are annoyed by monotonous animation of everyone outside the basketball court.

Users can adjust texture and players details, vertical sync, 4:3 mode, special effects, color correction, depth of field, reflections, and saturation.

Gameplay: 5

The gameplay is fast and smooth, and NBA 2K17 shows even more improvements. Players move more natural and copy their real prototypes including the physics of all movements.

You’ll definitely like a variety of game modes. Traditional Single Player allows you to play against the computer at various levels of difficulty. In the Career mode, you create a player and improve him from the school level to the summit of NBA fame. This is the important game mode, it’s a unique opportunity to adjust various parameters of your basketball player like abilities, skills, clothes, and accessories.

In My Team mode, you can play single player or multiplayer. The player earns cards and collects a team of players there. My League mode keeps track of everything that happens with the player’s team, enable exchange opportunities and other management options of their team. In My GM mode, users have even more control over everything that happens with their team.

Controls: 4

A series of NBA 2K is an intuitive sports simulator when you control virtual players impulsively, constructing combinations and your steps depending on what happens on the basketball court.

Upon downloading NBA 2K17, you’ll see that the developers added hundreds of new motion animations that greatly improved the game making it even more like real basketball. Virtual players learned dozens of different movements with their hands and body, lightning interceptions, new dribbling, and so on. The developers also completely renewed the system of shots making it more intuitive. To get to the ring, it is necessary to press and release the throw button in time.

Replay Value: 4.5

Thanks to a variety of modes, you can play the game over and over again.

Conclusion

The game can boast dynamic gameplay, a huge selection of different types of cameras and various game modes.

• Graphics 5
• Gameplay 5
• Controls 4
• Replay Value 4.5

Pros

An updated mode with Hollywood stars;
Improved dynamic gameplay;
A detailed training mode.

Cons

Some bugs and errors with the physics of players’ movements.