The
NBA 2K series are the most popular franchise of video games based on basketball. The series started life as the exclusive basketball title for the
Sega Dreamcast, but later appeared on other consoles starting with
NBA 2K2. It's since surpassed EA Sports's
NBA Live series, to the point, where
NBA Elite, a planned refresh of the
Live franchise was canned.
The NBA 2K series provides examples of:
- And Now For Something Completely Different: The "My Player" mode in recent titles, where you control nearly every aspect of your player's basketball career.
- Announcer Chatter: Which has been praised by fans as being downright realistic and actually pretty accurate to how commentary on any given NBA game would sound like.
- Cash Cow Franchise: It's the pre-eminent NBA simulation franchise on the market right now.
- Dueling Games: With EA's NBA Live/Elite series.
- Guest Player(s): NBA 2K12 features some of the game's biggest legends like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, and even Jerry West (the player whose silhouette is represented in the NBA logo).
- Long Runner: The first game was released in November 1999, and it's still going very, very strong, even surpassing EA's long-running series of NBA games.
- Mission Pack Sequel: Though there are frequently plenty enough improvements with each passing game to make it more different than the previous year's edition.
- Multi Platform
- Shown Their Work: As stated before, the game has some impressively realistic commentary, which is a refresher from other sports games that has repetitive commentary.
- Sports Game
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