ESPN NBA 2 Night

by ESPN

Product Features

• Basketbal Game
• Play Station 2

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004U62H
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 13, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,507 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #37 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Sports > Basketball

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Amazon.com Product Description

ESPN NBA 2Night features 25 different dunks and 40 low-post moves. You can create your own player, decide his attributes, put him in the draft, and watch him develop into a superstar. There are five game modes: practice, preseason, NBA season, enhanced season, and tournament. Brent Musberger and Stuart Scott provide commentary.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One of the worst basketball games ever!, January 20, 2002

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AFP "AFP" - See all my reviews

This review is from: ESPN NBA 2Night (Video Game)

This game is terrible, I don't know how anyone could give this game 5 stars and that people reading give them good votes, if you don't know how bad this game is don't vote YES! This is terrible, it is extremly easy for the ball to be stolen, the players son't look like they look like in real life, only a little tiny bit. The game is horrendously slow, it's like playing NBA2K1 in slow motion, really. When a player shoot he does not even face the basket until the second he releases the ball from his hand. I could not believe how bad it was until I got it, the box of the game was more entertaining than the game itself, the only way you could get use to the controls of this game is if you force yourself to play it and don't have any other games, or maybe it's just that you haven't played any other good basketball games like the 2K series or ANYTHING ELSE!!!!! I reccomend anything over this! You can get the ball stolen form you 2 feet away from the player your passing to! The only thing I even liked about this game was 1. the digital intro with highlights of many eye-popping NBA plays , and 2. the fact that you can dunk over people. But if you want to waste your money and time, then go right ahead.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Break out the thesaurus-putird, awful, dreadful, ghastly.., May 30, 2001

By 

Michael West (Dayton, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ESPN NBA 2Night (Video Game)

Folks, I cannot begin to adequately articulate my displeasure with this game. It is perhaps the WORST video game I've ever played, and that includes the basketball game for the original Atari 2600.

Okay, maybe it's not quite that bad. The graphics are better with ESPN NBA 2Night. But my expectations for the old 2600 basketball don't come anywhere near what I expect from a "sports sim" (and I use that term VERY loosely here) for the so-called Next Generation of video games.

I am not an avid gamer. I typically stick with the sports sims, occasionally breaking away for a good combat game or an over-the-top - but fun - caricature of a sports game (i.e. NFL Blitz, NBA Jam). Even when sticking my usual video gaming modus operandi, I consider myself a novice, spending several games (maybe days) at the lowest level of a game just to acclimate myself to it.

That said, there is so much wrong with this game. Allow me to share a few things with you:

1. Very unrealistic gameplay. I started out playing as the Lakers against the New Jersey Nets at the lowest level. Stephon Marbury was as athletic as Michael Jordan, throwing down no fewer than 6 highlight-reel dunks, including a leaning two-handed windmill. Three of those dunks were done OVER SHAQUILLE O'NEAL!!

Speaking of the Shaq-daddy, he runs the floor with the grace, speed and agility of Alan Iverson. Simply put, players do not really play like their real-life counterparts.

In addition, computer-controlled players on my team simply sat back and did nothing as balls rattled around on the backboard.

2. Bad Graphics and animations. People have been saying great things about the graphics on this game. I don't see it at all. They're no better than those found on NBA Live 2001. (Whereas NBA Live has actually photos for roster photos, ESPN 2Night uses these hideous computer images.)

In addition, the game has this nasty glitch where your players will frequently walk right through an opposing player. It's as if the players have this magical ability to pass through solid objects! Boy, talk about a "special move!" It's stunningly bad!

3. Confusing/Inconsistent computer AI. During one play, Keith Van Horne leapt over 2-3 defenders (including Horace Grant and Shaquille O'Neal) and sent home a thundering tomahawk dunk. (Van Horne also had Jordan-like abilities.)

As unrealistic as THAT is, a few plays later Van Horne had the lane to himself - not a player within the 3 point line - and he pulled up shot a short 3 foot jump shot. Inconsistent at best.

BOTTOM LINE... I usually am very easy on video games; it takes a lot to unnerve me. But this game did it for me. The ONLY reason it has one star is because 'zero stars' was not an option.

Save your money and wait for NBA 2K2 in the fall.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good game with room for improvement, February 25, 2001

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Jamie (Massachusetts, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ESPN NBA 2Night (Video Game)

This game is a pretty solid game. The graphics and play animations are really good. Many of the faces are correct, as well as the body shapes, mainly a star or two from each team looks really correct. You can add features to all your favorite players that you know they have such as there hair style, sweat bands, knee braces, sock length, head band, or elastic bands for their wrists, which is cool. The announcing flows pretty well, but sometimes they do get repititve. The gameplay is a little slow, but there are some cool, moves, and good jams. A couple things this game doesn't have are street ball, and a turbo button. However over all this is a very good game, and I think it is better than NBA LIVE 2001 for ps2. This game is a good buy.

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