NBA 2k6's visuals will amaze you if you have an HDTV, but is still a great game of basketball that plays extremely well.

User Rating: 8.9 | NBA 2K6 X360
By Astrodude_5 | Review Date:
NBA 2K6 is the next gen's posterboy for HDTV. If you have one, you'll be befuddled by the detail. One time I actually stopped playing and dropped the controller because I thought I was there or watching an HD basketball game. Then I went upstairs and saw a basketball game on SDTV and NBA 2K6 looked better than the actual game. If you have a regular TV though, the only thing to seperate this version from the Xbox or PS2 version are replays and cloth physics. Not to mention $10. Plus jaggies become noticeable.

Whether HD or not, this is still a good basketball sim. Skills we be rewarded but if you are careless (aka chucking a pass three-quarters down court), or even making one too many passes on the fast break, you will get picked off. The only complaint about gameplay is that with a good shoot (cough Kyle Korver cough) you can step a few steps behind the arc and drain 3's all day.

Sound. Up and down. Crowd is loud and announcers are OK, but some noises like dunking sounds, just don't seem right and are just like NBA 2K5 on Xbox.

You'll have a good time with fanchise if you buy it, or it's fun for a week if you rent it. (seeing as acheivement points can be easily well...acheived with the sliders or a created player).

HD- Worth playing...definately

SD-If you don't care about the reduced graphics...worth playing.

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