NBA 2k15 offers improvements

By Deleon Floyd
October 22, 2014

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Its October again, the NBA season is finally here and as in every year, 2K Sports released the latest version of NBA video game play.

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On Oct. 7, NBA 2K15 was released to add another installment to the 2k franchise and of course Kevin Durant, the NBA’s 2013-2014 season Most Valuable Player is on the cover.

The game features numerous improvements of gameplay such as a new shooting system, team specific play sets, and more control over blocks, steals, and rebounding. It includes authentic commentary and analysis from Ernie Johnson and Shaq.

The game play and graphic of 2K15 on Xbox 360 is sort of similar to NBA 2K14, which is not surprising, for the fact of there not being an enormous visual difference between 2K13 to 2K14.

The graphics are a little more enhanced looking, a bit more convincing but other than that there’s not much of an alteration. Playing the game on PlayStation 4 made 2k15 look completely different. The players on PS4 look more alive. 2K does an excellent job of making the characters feel like their real life counterparts.

The players show emotion and present a realistic feeling; it’s like you are in the area with press box seats. 2K Sports has installed a new feature to the game that allows you to live a virtual experience as a NBA player. 2K15 the face scan feature was set in place. The face scan feature maps your entire face into tiny points and creates a player with your facial features and looks.

The only issue is the feature is filled with flaws and problems. It tells you to place your face in a circle guideline and move your head left to right. If this is not done properly, a distorted gross image of you will be created. After multiple times of trying you may get it right. If not you will be playing with a digital Halloween mask.

What stands out the most is how different one-on-one defense is from 2K14. In this latest edition defense is significantly harder. It is mainly because of the improvement made with the guards and their ball handling skills. The game also removed the 1-3-1 trap defense and replaced it with another man to man coverage option. Although turnovers are not as overly occurring and there are not as many missed easy lay-ups, in this game passing the ball is a must. It is hard to get 45 points with one player. Scoring in isolation is much more difficult than the past 2K games. Overall the game is exciting and interesting. The 2K developers put a lot of time and hard work into this edition and it shows.

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