Take-Two and recent impressions from the upcoming NBA 2k12 game reveal how the studio is focusing a lot on presentation and the extra modes to ensure the game stays popular even if there is no NBA season this year.
Control and gameplay-wise, this year's version borrows heavily from 2k11 although with more tweaks and updates to both. The biggest addition is a new in-game play-calling system meant to be much faster and smoother.
The commentary system has been redone to include interrupting lines for play calling to both reduce the problem of lines repeating too many times during a game and help give it more of a "real" feeling to a game.
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Indeed, VC has actually programmed it now where the commentators will instantly react to a big play on the court, regardless as to whether a line of color commentary has already begun. After nailing a particularly nasty dunk, all three let out a particularly excitable "OOOHHHHH!" followed by a comment on that specific play, right in the middle of one of Kerr's diatribes about my team's performance last season. He then actually resumed that story once they'd finished praising the dunk.
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A new mode meant to expand last year's Jordan Challenges now includes about 30 classic teams to create the league's 15 most memorable matches with the focus on ensuring the lineups are accurate and not generic names or numbers.
Also revealed was depending on the classic matchup, the presentation changes to simulate how the game would look from that period of time.
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The presentation of the games in this mode changes significantly as well. If you're playing a match-up between '64-'65 Celtics and Lakers, the in-game camera switches to a black-and-white view, with commentary appropriately filtered through the slightly less intelligible technology of the time. Moving up in decades, the visuals will shift to color, albeit with more washed-out visuals. All the appropriate rulesets of a given era are included, so if you're playing back in the '60s, there is no three-point line, for instance.
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Quick News Round-Up:
1) Nintendo reveals the 2nd set of NES games for the 3DS Ambassador Program includes Metroid, Zelda II, Mario Open Golf, Yoshi's Egg, and Wrecking Crew to go along with the previously announced NES set (Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda,Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong, and Ice Climber). The company did not reveal at the time what the free GBA games will be but Metroid Fusion or Metroid Zero Mission has been rumored to be one of the games.
2) Treasure announces the Xbox Live Arcade port of Radiant Silvergun now has an official release date of September 15 for the price of 1200 MS points ($15). The game is a port from the Sega Saturn original with the option to play the game in either the classic Saturn or HD-remake graphics.
3) Microsoft confirms the upcoming Xbox Live update for the Xbox 360 will include 3D-capability for users with 3Dtv sets for both upcoming 3D-enabled games, such as Gears 3 and Halo:CE Anniversary, and movies from Netflicks.