Rated 3.70 out of 5 stars 10 Reviews
NBA 2K10 (Sony PSP)
NBA 2K10 is ready to tip off another Championship season. NBA 2K9, the #1 selling & #1 rated NBA videogame*, set the standard for all basketball videogames, and NBA 2K10 aims to surpass that that by delivering an even better basketball experience this year with all-new gameplay components, out-of-this-world graphics, even more realistic Signature Style animations, all-new presentation elements and an unrivalled online system - this season you won’t just play the NBA, you’ll live it.
NBA 2K10 (Sony PSP) Reviews
My daughter absolutely loves this game! She never wants to put it down.If I allowed her, she would play it everyday!
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This is the best basketball game for PSP on the market. It puts NBA Live 08/09 and Sony's NBA 09 to shame. Great gameplay and graphics. Highly recommended!
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NBA games are the only games I buy for my PSP nowadays. This year, I've bought both this game and Live 10, and this is the better game. Here's a comparison.
Pros:
- In 2K10, the graphics are better optimized. On Live 10, whenever the game zooms out to half-court, the graphics become pixelated, which is annoying. In this game, the aliasing is better, which makes the animations look better.
- The characters here are also better animated. In Live they're more robotic. In 2K10 you can actually tell what's going on just from watching the animations. If someone fouls, you can tell who it was because they looked pissed off. Meanwhile the guy who's going to the line pumps his fists. If the ball gets knocked outta bounds, you just watch the ref to know who's ball it is.
- Gameplay is way better. The simulation and pace feels more like an actual NBA game. Computer controlled players will actually cut and try to set up plays, as opposed to Live where they tend to go through the motions.
- The instant replay is programmed better. You'll see the same dunk from different angles. In Live you get one replay and a lot of times it's from a crappy angle.
- Free throws use the analog stick, instead of trying to line up an X and Y cursor like in Live. It's more intuitive.
- A ton of cut scene animations. During a timeout, you'll see the coach call it. After a big play, you'll see bench players high fiving each other. Halftime you see cheerleaders. If there's an injury, you see the player going to the lockeroom. I've seen one cut scene showing the fans doing a wave and one fan getting mad at the guy next to him because he messed it up. Live has none of these.
Cons:
- Everything except the players and the cutscenes are low res. You can especially tell when looking at the court and the logos are so low res they look out of focus.
- The skins they used for the players are ugly as can be. The player faces in Live actually looked like their counterparts. Here all the players look like pitbulls. Wait til you see Gasol's face in this game. You'll be like WTF is that??!
- The camera always follows the ball and doesn't zoom out far enough. So say you're playing D, if you're not covering the man with the ball, both you and your man might be off screen.
- Live's commentary with Marv Albert and Steve Kerr is better. In Live they even tell jokes and argue with each other. Here it's cut and dry. IE. every foul,the commentators announce "DEFENSIVE FOUL" or "OFFENSIVE FOUL," which is helpful, but it takes you out of the game.
- I've noticed sound tends to cut in and out sometimes. I'll be playing and the crowd will be cheering then all of a sudden it's dead quiet except for the dribble. I've also seen video freeze for a split second when the disc is being read. Live has some bugs too so I guess it is what it is.
In the end, 2K10 is the game to get.
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