games website "NBA2K16" PC version detailed review: experience general 8 points production

The rise of the NBA2k series, probably began in the summer of 2008, the Boston Celtics won the title, 2k9 came out, the real crushing appeared in the PC end, Kevin Garnett wearing a green shirt and beating his chest and roaring the opening animation, is the scene of that crazy season, the three big hands to defeat the Purple and gold Dynasty, the enemies of the Lakers all over the world are happy to run and celebrate.

At this time, PC 2K9 suddenly came out, allowing everyone to see more real basketball tactics, technical actions and professional picture quality comparable to live footage. So many years of paper characters, big-head dolls, skating NBAlive was a failure, there was no resistance, and even quickly withdrew from the PC side, but also lost its influence.

Since then, the NBA2k series step by step a milestone, 2k10 took out the MP mode, for the first time in sports games to achieve role playing and development, and then this model was evolved into the MC (career) mode, and has been used until now, become an indispensable classic, basketball fans on the forum will show their own pinched face, brush data, won the honor, These factors can be developed to DIY, so that this sports game has a similar to the Elder Scrolls general longevity.

And then in 2k12, 2K13 to achieve the "Jordan mode", "historical superstar" mode, but also let the fans shout addiction, you can experience Jordan, Olajuwon, Bird, Magic these legendary life, which makes people have a kind of pleasure through.

In this process, 2k has been improving, has been enriching its own connotation and extension, the only criticism, is from the 2k9, has been retrogressive picture quality for four consecutive years. However, by 2k14, the next generation console version is out again, which makes the game completely into another image, we can see clear facial expressions, muscle movements, and the MC mode gives people a feeling of watching a movie, from the talent show to called the superstar, real role play.

However, the PC version of 2k14 is not changed, and the previous pc version is not much different. To the PC version of 2k15, it completely made a change and began the next generation of picture quality, but at this time the freshness and impact have passed away, leaving everyone, but some "contrary to the original" regret. Since then, fans and 2K players around the world have been waiting for 2K16, and when the game actually shows up in front of us, it's still more of a shame than a surprise.

Picture and configuration

Screen improvement is limited, optimization is not as good as the previous generation

In fact, when the volume of 2k15 reaches 50GB, we do not expect the sequel to have any breakthrough improvement on the screen, because the next generation is shocking, but the bottleneck of technology has also arrived in advance, for the time being, there is no Mars black technology to make the screen achieve photo-level effect, you can see the skin texture, pores, sweat, dynamic expression, and so on. Seems to have been the limit of sports games. In other words - it couldn't be better.

50g modeling and mapping pile out of things, then worse is also the top level of the industry, within five years will not fall behind, so, if you have the energy, it is better to consider improving the perspective and lens conversion, the overall layout of the stadium, as well as the tone and figure ratio, like 2K9, so that everyone has the feeling of watching live.

2K16 PC version is so, in addition to the color is slightly yellow, there is no essential difference with the previous generation of 2k15, the character's face, body, expression almost did not change, in addition to the cool opening animation, more suitable for the touch screen sliding operation of the main interface, in the overall game screen, we did not see the elements that can exceed 2k15. Strangely, however, the performance of the game was reduced.

The official configuration requirements are as follows:

Minimum configuration requirements:

Operating system: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit& NBSP;

CPU: Intel Core2 Duo or better (SSE3 or later) 

Memory: 2 GB RAM 

Hard disk space: 50 GB or more free space

Video card: supports DirectX 10.1 and has 512 MB of video memory or higher.

DirectX: Version 10 

Sound card: DirectX 9.0c compatible

Recommended configuration requirements:

Operating system: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit or Windows 10 64-bit& NBSP;

CPU: Intel Core i5 or better 

Memory: 4 GB RAM 

Graphics card: DirectX 11.0 compatible (2 GB) or higher

Hard disk space: 50 GB or more free space

DirectX: Version 11 

Sound card: DirectX 9.0c compatible

This configuration requirement seems to be in addition to the hard disk space requirements, and there is nothing remarkable, but really play is not such a thing, the author reviews the platform is a MSI desktop, the processor is i5 4590k, the graphics card is double GTX960 SLI, the motherboard is MSI Z97S, the memory is dual channel 16g.

According to the official recommended configuration, the author's machine should not have any problems, and the "NBA 2K16" on the screen and 2K15 are the same and the next generation of the same engine processing, the screen overall is not much progress, but surprisingly the PC version of the game for the graphics card optimization is limited. Entering the game did not appear any discord, but once the game began, whether it was the TNT commentary, or the opening animation, even the warm-up before the jump ball and the cheerleading performance, there would be a large number of frame fluctuations.

The game does not support dual-card SLI, while the maximum frame rate is locked at 60FPS, and it is automatically locked at 30FPS during cutscenes, only increasing the frame rate during the game battle. In this way, the author has repeatedly exploded the GTX980 dual card GTX960SLI has become, however, no use, efficiency is not as good as a single card.

The average GPU load in the game is about 65%, and there is 35% idle usage, but at this time the video memory usage has reached 2.5G, the video card is not operating at full capacity, but it occupies such a high memory usage, which shows that the game has very limited optimization for the video card. Therefore, if players want to smoothly play the game at the highest quality, they must at least have a video card with more than 3G memory, such as the GTX970 or the GTX960 4G version.

When we look at the screen carefully, we will find that the real-time calculation of the court is only 10 players, and the other spectators, referees, coaches, and cheerleaders are just pre-set modeling, including the so-called "special effects" such as the changes in expressions, sweat on the skin, and dust in the air, which are regular special effects, which will not cause much pressure on the operation of the game. However, all this can take up 2.5 gigabytes of video memory, which is surprising. Let's just say -- this optimization is not friendly to PC gamers.

Game system and operation

RPG general MC mode, can not change keys to kill the keyboard party

But from the ordinary operation point of view, there is really no advantage to say, 2k this action engine and physical collision mode, from about 2k8 has not been changed, so that yotube can be seen everywhere in the imitation of friends ridicule, air wall, fast attack can not run, empty hand can not run with the ball, the referee does not give the ball, the computer last second random shooting rate is very high, Frontcourt rebounds are others, fast break three play a broken ball, blocks are given to opponents, broken ball in place hard straight three seconds...

There have been magical scenes before, and 2k16 is not immune.

The opening animation of the game is quite amazing, is a guy who looks like Rondo dribbling wildly in the earthquake, he will pass through the three popular chicken - Stephen Curry, James Harden, Anthony Davis, and finally meet the big BOSS on the throne - Michael Jordan, this section of the painting style is very magical, It also indicates the infinite possibilities of the players in the MC mode, the super soldier in the opening animation, constantly changing the position, action and shirt, showing countless life paths.

The MC model of this generation is more perfect, not just an ordinary draft in 2k14, not a talented rookie in 2k15 to complete the diaosi reverse attack, this is a real life simulation, you will start from a child at the bottom of the slum, to pursue their own superstar life, Just like Allen Iverson, Kevin Durant, lebron James childhood, complete their own inspirational legend,

The script "Living the Dream" is more real and more exciting, and the cg animation and voice acting of the career mode are also specially invited basketball stars and Hollywood superstar directors to participate, we can hear the familiar voice of Spike - Lee, we can see their everyday every twinkle and smile.

Here, I'm going to give 2k16 a perfect score.

But here's a sad story for you - is this a game for PC gamers and keyboard geeks? Actually, there is a huge BUG that can not set the key, so that players have to plug in the X360 controller, but after inserting the controller, it will also lead to the keyboard and the controller conflict, who dares to adjust the setting, immediately can call your controller and the keyboard fail at the same time!

The MC mode is good, but can the fucking face-pinching system have any universal value? Why is it that all the preset faces, black and white, are an old lebron James face? It's not like James, it's like Big Baby Davis, what is 2k's aesthetic? Black people are the tallest? Garlic nose, thick lips highest?

Although the game made some classic teams in the peak period, such as the Rockets during the Yao Wheat period, which can meet the YY psychology of many fans, however, you want to make Yao Ming's face into what kind of? Big head doll Zhao Benshan?

The problem of this player's face, 2k is not a day or two unreliable, some people are very similar, such as those black features of the obvious players, and those white and Asian faces, but often a mess, an unknown rookie of the Spurs Kyle Anderson has expressed dissatisfaction, he said: "Damn, 2k16 I look like a muggle!"

James Harden, however, was happy with the game, and 2k made his beard look like that, and became one of the game's cover characters.

Music sound effect

The sense of immersive scene, varied background music

The game soundtrack as many as 50 songs, and compatible with a variety of styles, from black rap to traditional rock to pop music everything, finished 2k15 27 songs, the music in the previous game is still biased towards rap, and this time the rock and pop accounted for a lot of proportion, players in the game, but also wash their ears.

This time the TNT commentary group, not only fat O 'Neill, will also join the rocket period of the outside knife, mouth cannon countless Kenny - Smith, now the commentary combination has just begun to take on the appearance of TNT day group, in addition to the analysis of the game and the evaluation of the players, will also join some classic mouth play treasure jokes. Of course, we are more looking forward to smiling Assassins, Ray Kimmler, Charles Barkley - mean, mischievous, funny guys appear in the commentary camp, that is what we really expect the NBA.

On the court, the crowd's cheers, boos, MVP sound, the sound of the ball hitting the floor, the sound of the basket, the sound of brushing the net interwoven together, so that people have a sense of being in the scene.

Picture and configuration: 8 points

PC version of gameplay: 8 points

Music sound effects: 8 points

Overall score: 8

Poor pc side optimization, super awesome MC mode