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ESPN 2K5 IS THE BEST $20 IVE EVER SPENT.
i'll get Madden but this game is amazing, i cant believe this is only $20. so much work has gone into it. all the extras, crowd and sideline scenes, the amazing dolby audio, all the broadcast stuff, they went waay out of their way for this stuff (wait till you see the ingame info graphics). its just super polished.
how's the meat of the game? amazing. guys, the animations are sooooo sick. they meld into each other perfectly, basically making custom athletic moves on the fly, always looks awesome never once glitchy or unnatural. and i mean all the player animations, including before AND after the play, so much lifelike variations, they make the players REAL. how real? Kurt Warner called a timeout FROM THE GROUND after i SACKED HIM.
on the field, playing running back is a dream, there's still a limited range of that pivoting around a stick but extreme movements on the stick produce really smooth cutting and backtracking animations (no buttons needed). if your back touches a lineman he'll push off him, or slip past him all seamlessly into whatever animation comes next. and the gang tackles, god knows how they did that, if a guy comes in late or is underneath, the physics somehow produces these incredibly real animations, with the appropriate force and every tackler accounted for. also the DBs have realistic swatting and turning animations from EVERY angle. SERIOUS attention to detail here.
if you're used to madden, play the game on SLOW, cuz 2K plays alot faster and unless you adjust its real easy to miss everything thats going on. i think thats what madden players have the biggest problem with, the pace.
everything looks too color saturated, and the faces dont look great. its the motion tho, they have like 3 super realistic animations for ANY situation. cant stress enough how less of a 'videogame' this makes it all feel. turn the saturation on your TV down a bit.
the important stuff: anyone find a way to play Away uniforms at Home ???? (workaround is to wear the '82 aways with the gray facemasks) how bout making other teams wear Dark??? YES THE ALL WHITES ARE IN THERE, but the other team cant wear darks! super dumb oversight. finally, the peg the burgundy on the helmets perfectly but not on the uniforms! they're like too pink! ugh, they've never gotten it right.
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