We WON the lakers!!!!!!
http://www.nba.com/video/games/lakers/2010/10/07/0011000024_lal_bar_recap.nba/?ls=iref:nbahpt1
Yeaaah, I was there, an incredible atmosphere and a great physical game. Bryant was supposed to play 6 minutes but he ended up playing 25 because they were loosing!
And after the match, I went home and automatically put the game. I played some matches and some Jordan challenges. It's obvious that the Jordan challenges could use more minutes per quarter, but I think someday a patch will make this true.
As of now, I'm just testing the game and warming up. I've played mainly with the Trailblazers and the Oklahoma, but I don't feel 100% comfortable with any of them, I miss a lot of exterior threat in both teams, so I may try others before starting my association.
I haven't tried online, which is the only possible downside of the game. Mainly because I want to know the game first. I haven't played any online match neither with Fifa or PES, but I know I'll be doing 2k for some days.
The little details are amazing. And you have to be really patient and build up things. Going crazy for too much time produces turnovers aplenty.
Shooting feels inmense with the right stick, and deffensively I have been able to do some incredible blocks.
In one of my matches, I voluntarily let Curry to go past my PG towards the basket, because I knew Aldridge and Oden were near. Curry went for the easy layup, those layups that in previous games were an automatic 2 points. He jumped, but when going to score, suddenly Oden appeared from behind and put an amazing block that went to the table and out of the field almost at the midline. It was a WOW moment. I love being able to do this things. You can't assure the points until the ball is inside the basket.
They have done great to improve BOTH offensive and deffensive controls and you feel you can do what you want. You simply need to come to grips with the controls and the game flow, which is a little hard even for vets. I love it.
By the way, gamespot put a review about the game with frightening reports of bad online play:
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/sports/nba2k11/review.html?tag=topslot;thumb;5
It may be down to the first days of service, I hope. Cross fingers. Anyway, the rest of the review is simply pathetic and amateurish. They say it's the best sports game, much better than 2k10, yet they rate it an 8 (less than Fifa, less than 2k10)... it's a joke. The writer doesn't even get to talk at all about all the news controls and neglects all the good things of the game. Sounds really disgusting for a game that has received universal praise elsewhere.