As any knowledgeable caveman will tell you, it's tough to reinvent the wheel. Some might say impossible. The developers behind the yearly stable of sports games that we all love struggle with a similar problem every season. How do you change a videogame enough to make it worth sixty bucks while still staying in the confines of the given sport? It's a lesson that learned the hard way last year with NBA 2K8, a game that underperformed in the eyes of most critics. Luckily is here to return the series to its once comfortable perch atop the basketball world. While no one will argue that it's a massive overhaul from what we've seen from the series in the past, the additions that have been made advance the gameplay enough to conquer the competition.

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The biggest changes, surprisingly enough, actually do come on the court. It's a welcome switch for a genre that so often rests on its laurels.

NBA 2K8 was home to plenty of issues including gameplay that felt a step too slow and a newly adapted defensive mechanic that nearly broke the game. Lockdown defense is back again, but it's been changed for the better. Shaq can no longer guard Steve Nash by simply slamming down on the left trigger. The new system still relies on the left trigger for activation, while it uses the right stick to determine how you orient yourself with relation to the person with the ball. Lmgrd.exe Windows 7. That leads me to my main complaint with the mechanic, that being that it's only usable when the man you're guarding actually has the ball.