NBA2k16 Extended Trailer released today, some form of College play

[lacocat]

Anthony Davis is heavily featured, and the end has a tease of a HS player announcing where he will play College at. Probably part of the MYCareer mode.



As you might have guessed, NBA 2K16's cover stars Stephen Curry, James Harden, and Anthony Davis are front and center in the three-minute trailer. Other NBA standouts, including LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, are also featured in the impressive-looking video.

Be sure to watch through until the end, as the video closes by teasing that NBA 2K16 may feature college basketball in some manner. A high school player is shown taping an announcement video for where he'll play college ball. The video cuts out just before he says the name of the school he's committing to.

"I have to decided to go to the great university of..."

In July, it was revealed that 2K Sports had acquired the license for some college basketball teams to appear in NBA 2K16, possibly through the game's MyCareer mode. 2K Sports reportedly has the license for the following schools: Arizona, Arizona State, Georgetown, Kansas, Louisville, Michigan, Texas, UCLA, UConn, Villanova, and Wisconsin.

No UK yet it seems.

 

[jwheat]

If my player can't go to Kentucky I will not be buying the game.

 

[lacocat]

If my player can't go to Kentucky I will not be buying the game.

Yea, that list of schools they have license for is like which is the least obnoxious for a UK fan to go play at. Kansas, UL, UConn, Wisconsin ugh. Is promising for future releases though, may skip this one also until they add more schools. they need to make a NCAA2k17 college only version and have all the schools.

 

[crazyqx83_rivals88013]

I counted 5 former UK players featured prominently (handling the ball or making a shot) in this trailer.

Davis
Rondo
Wall
Bledsoe
Cousins

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Looks great. Motions look fluid. But the faces on a lot of these players still crack me up. Did I see Ben McLemore in there? Looked like he crapped himself coming off the dunk.

Seeing as how the College Basketball games are finished, I wonder if NBA2K or Live will try and combine the two in the coming years. Would be a great idea. From a business standpoint, having a stand-along college game probably doesn't make a huge profit, but not making one does leave out a decent sized demographic.

Wouldn't even take much work to add in a college module, really just aesthetics. Adjust the rules, change the uni's, keep players generic and without names, and maybe just adjust the crowd/arena environments.

 

[lacocat]

After the Ed O'bannon lawsuit, EA said they would make college games again if they could pay the players, and the NCAA isn't having that.
2K seems to just be paying the schools for the schools likeness rights, not players, and using fantasy generated players. I never cared about the college players being accurate in the old games anyway, after 2 or 3 new draft classes in dynasty mode everyone is new anyway.