NBA 2K12 [Download]

by 2K Games

Product Details

• Downloading: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
• Note: Gifting is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B005ODQC1O
• Release Date: October 4, 2011
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,551 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC Download

From the Manufacturer

Get back on the court as some of the greatest NBA players of all time in NBA 2K12. Featuring legendary players and teams from NBA history, NBA 2K12 lets you truly settle the argument of who is the greatest.

Relive the Finals

Play as legendary players

Synopsis

With over 5 million copies sold worldwide and over 20 Sports Game of Year awards, last year NBA 2K11 allowed you to BECOME THE GREATEST with MJ & the Jordan Challenge mode. This year the NBA 2K franchise is back and bigger than ever, providing fans with the opportunity they’ve always dreamed of – to finally END THE DEBATE as to who are the best teams and players of all time. Featuring such NBA legends as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird as well as all of your favorite NBA players of today, NBA 2K12 will be packed with new and exciting features that will be revealed in the weeks and months ahead that, come October 4th, will put fans center court of an unprecedented basketball experience.

Key Features:

• Celebrates the legendary careers of Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson with three different game covers
• Features 15 legendary NBA players, including Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dr. J and more
• Relive celebrated careers and heated rivalries from NBA history, re-created in meticulous detail
• Offers the most visually accurate NBA game to date by building off NBA Today's real-time stats, rosters, schedules and ratings
• Dynamically update every graphic detail of the game from the shoes to player models and court floors
• Delivers a dynamic broadcast style featuring players promoting their upcoming games and pregame highlight reels set to 2K Beats music
• Shoot, steal, pass, dunk and dominate your opponents on the floor with all-new control mechanics for post play and ball control to offer intuitive gameplay
• Adds more than 1,000 new animations for realistic and life-like gameplay
• Follow-up to the award-winning Sports Game of the Year, NBA 2K11

Relive the league's most celebrated careers and rivalries, re-created in unbelievable detail. Take to the court as 15 NBA legends, including Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Dr. J, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and more. Dominate your opponents on the hardwood with all-new control mechanics for post play and ball control that let you intuitively shoot, pass, steal, dribble and dunk. Experience the most visually accurate NBA game that builds off NBA Today's real-time stats, rosters, schedules and ratings. Update graphic details from the shoes to the player models and court floors. Immerse yourself in the excitement and thrills of NBA action with an updated broadcast style that features players promoting their upcoming games and pregame highlights set to 2K Beats music. Are you ready to determine who is truly the greatest to ever play in the NBA?

A required game patch was released by the developer. Please click here to receive the patch after download.

System Requirements   Minimum Specifications: Recommended Specifications: OS: Windows 7, Vista and XP Processor: Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Single Core processor or equivalent (2.8 Ghz for Vista) 3 GHz Dual Core processor or equivalent RAM: 512 MB or more (1 GB for Vista) 2 GB Hard Drive: 7.5 GB   Video Card: ATI x1300 or greater; NVIDIA 6600 or greater; DirectX 9.0c compatible card with Shader Model 3.0 support. Shader Model 3.0 support with 512 Ram (Nvidia(R) Geforce(R) 7900 GT or better) Additional Info: Keyboard or dual-analog gamepad, DirectX 9.0c compatible Sound Card

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 28 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars No Support Whatsoever December 28, 2011

By Billy Ryan

Platform for Display:PC Download|Amazon Verified Purchase

As usual, PC gamers get the shaft from developers who don't support their products. The console version is already up to its 4th patch -- hell, even the Mac OS version got a patch. The PC version? Tough.

Just a quick sampling of what's wrong with the PC version:

1. You can't download the latest official rosters. It's broken. You have to dick around with replacing files and possibly using some sort of Hex editor just to get the rookies on the right teams.

2. And when the rookies do show up, they have weird Black Arm syndrome. Cosmetic, yeah, but it's annoying and a further example of how poorly we PC gamers get shafted.

3. Playing against the computer? Welcome to an exciting game of watching the opposition point guard dribble at the top of the key for 15 seconds before panic-passing with 5 seconds left on the shot clock for a jacked-up 3.

4. You've probably heard of the infamous fast break defense. You'll get to watch guys like Luke Babbit (61 speed, 61 quickness) beating your created player with 93 speed and 91 quickness. Video proof: [...]

5. No adjusting sliders on My Player mode! Who knows if that's deliberate or not... it just sucks.

Don't buy the PC version of this game. It's broken, and it doesn't look like 2K plans on giving its paying customers a patch.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome October 9, 2011

By Jieming Shi

Platform for Display:PC Download|Amazon Verified Purchase

The game is fantastic and visuals are great. Not sure why, but I can turn the graphics settings higher for this game 2012 than 2011 on the same computer. Character models are better. There are some differences so play it a while to get used to it before rating it. It is unfair to want this to be 2011 but better; it is not. In some ways it is different and much better like the my legend and my player modes. I like the drills and play next key game. Training camp is great. So overall, single player is fantastic. Tried online once and it did not work so I believe in the complaints about online issues. Would be 5-star if online is fixed. Much cheaper than console versions and so, it is a much better value. Buy it if you are on the fence. Otherwise, don't.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Dont listen to them, Real PC gamer here March 19, 2012

By Jeff G.

Platform for Display:PC Download

A lot of folks are saying this game is broken and never receives any official patches. These people clearly dont know how to use the internet at all. When I started playing this game (and yes I pirated it at first) I saw many of the issues these people pointed out. However after simply googling said issues I came upon www.nba-2k.com which is a fan-site with many UNOFFICIAL roster, physics, glitches and bug patches as well as offical patches.

2K Sports has been slow to fix this game and update rosters but sometimes you gotta count on the community. And the one for NBA 2K is awesome. There are hundreds of cyber faces created by fans that drastically improve the players appearance.

The wonderful thing about PC games, and the reason I prefer them, is the mod and patch communities that build up. So instead of listening to these idiots do some research find what you need and enjoy this great game!