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Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: tHe GaMe on May 19, 2001, 12:28:51 PM
The game looks exactly marvelous in graphics, I thought I would never get a chance to see a B-Ball game that looks like this, I wish they had a Football game too, or do they.  http://ps2.ign.com/news/34714.html

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Post by: Ethan_Hunt on May 19, 2001, 12:32:36 PM
They do look good apart from the 2nd pic,a they actually all look a bit strange,like they have been painted.
Look at the last pic the shape of the guys arms,it looks like they have been cut and pasted onto a background.
Title: Re: : )
Post by: tHe GaMe on May 19, 2001, 12:35:01 PM
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Originally posted by Ethan_Hunt
They do look good apart from the 2nd pic,a they actually all look a bit strange,like they have been painted.
Look at the last pic the shape of the guys arms,it looks like they have been cut and pasted onto a background.


I kinda agree with what you said.
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: politiepet on May 19, 2001, 12:55:09 PM
damn, one mighty fine looking game, love the way the focus is used
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: tHe GaMe on May 19, 2001, 01:29:39 PM
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Originally posted by politiepet
damn, one mighty fine looking game, love the way the focus is used


Fantastic graphics.
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: pstwo on May 19, 2001, 01:56:01 PM
WOW!! This BasketBall game is the best I\'ve seen!!  I have NBA Live 2001 but this one is cool!! I wonder how good the game play.  :D
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: SonyFan on May 19, 2001, 04:05:37 PM
Those have been touched up. I can almost guantee you that. Unless there\'s some radically new effect being programmed into the game, and I DOUBT that. Some of those pics look almost like they\'re CellShaded (The slightly dark outline on some of the polygon models) like in JGR.. but why put CellShading type techniques in a game that\'s supposed to look as close to real life as possible. The only thing that springs to mind are very well done touchups in which those odd appearances can\'t be helped.

Just cross your fingers and hope the actual game looks this good.. if not a bit better.
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: w1ngman on May 19, 2001, 04:24:17 PM
pstwo nailed it with the gameplay question.  I\'ve never seen sports games more hard to appreciate in gameplay than those of b-ball...  Somehow, even football games can get away with less than stellar skating and collision issues.  But with b-ball games such issues can be GLARING and I must reserve my opinion on this one until I play it.  But the pics are incredible...no doubt about that point.
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: AlteredBeast on May 19, 2001, 05:02:57 PM
Konami\'s Sports games are crap, look to EA or Sega for your sports games, others just cant compete.

Eric Jacob
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: Metal_Gear_Ray on May 19, 2001, 05:47:51 PM
I dont know but these screens look touched up, and the faces of the guys look a bit weird.....anyhoo it looks damn mighty fine! :)
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: unknown on May 19, 2001, 05:51:45 PM
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ughhh where did he go george, where did he go?


man this is one ugly a$$ character, ughhhh
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: Terry Bogard on May 19, 2001, 05:59:56 PM
I\'m sorry but Visual Concepts is 10 times better then EA and Konami\'s Sports games.



Bring on NBA 2K2, which will INDEED crush this pathetic game.
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: Gollum on May 19, 2001, 07:27:41 PM
those pics are definatly touched up and i seriously doubt its going to look like that when you are playing !!!:(
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: AlteredBeast on May 19, 2001, 09:10:40 PM
Well, you know I dont like EA sports, but I included it for the people who DO :)

IMO Sega SPorts are too good for all others to compete.

Eric Jacob
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: Knotter8 on May 20, 2001, 04:31:22 PM
This looks good, but also weird. Certainly touched up.
Almost looks like they used raytracing for the textures and then made them into a matte lambert shader.
Real strange, the 2nd pic looks like the guy comes straight outta the nuthouse :nut:
Knotter8
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: Black Samurai on May 20, 2001, 04:56:32 PM
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Originally posted by AlteredBeast
Konami\'s Sports games are crap, look to EA or Sega for your sports games, others just cant compete.

Exactly, This game looks pretty crappy IMO. The models are out of wack and the textures are horrendous. I can\'t wait until NBA2k2 comes out I haven\'t played a decent basketball game since NBA2k1.

BTW, Don\'t mention Live because the Animation was probably some of the worst I have seen in a Next Gen game. *blechh* I was pissed that I rented it.
Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: pstwo on May 20, 2001, 06:27:00 PM
This picture look so real!  His face!! I want to see how this game will turn out.  I have my hopes on this one. But NBA 2k2 will have the best game play. I played almost every NBA game and I think the Dreamcast NBA 2k game play is the best i ever played.

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Title: Damn, ESPN NBA 2Night 2002 looks like it will be the winner of B-Ball on the PS2!!!!!
Post by: Coredweller on May 20, 2001, 06:53:47 PM
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Originally posted by pstwo
This picture look so real!  His face!!


I\'m sure you all realize that pictures like these have absolutely no bearing on how great or potentially awful the final game will be.  The only way you\'d ever see an image like this in the game is in a replay, and I usually switch off the replays.  They\'re a waste of time.  The most critical issue a developer should address in making a basketball game is ANIMATION.  The quality of motion capture and transitions between animations should be the #1 priority.  Model complexity and density of the texture mapping are not nearly as important because you need to play the game considerably more zoomed out to play a 5 on 5 game.  With that in mind, screenshots like these are so dumb.

One more thing: why did they have to display Rasheed Wallace and Tracy McGrady???? One word:  SUCKKKKKK! [kah kah kah... sound of choking]