Pro Basketball Manager 2016 Reviews

I really wanted to like this game, I promise i did. Having played the 2015 version and seeing much potential in it I bought this years hopeful for the best. Well it is not as easy as last years in which I always started a career with a team and I was losing no trophy every year, this years I can say it is impossible to keep your job. All budget income comes from the arena when at the same moment you are losing money to the point you owe to everyone that has laces in his shoes. Then it's that bug thing. Damn that bug thing. I never got to play 2 forking games in the forking row. The new features in the contracts are nice because now I cannot sign KAWHI FORKING LEONARD to Olympiacos for 150,000 a week. I saw that there are jerseys in the 2017 version and I was kinda happy because maybe it will help with the finances. Recruitment. Hmm, recruitment was a thing this year in colleges because well nobody in the forking world wanted to attend THE ARIZONA FORKING WILDCATS. If i had a to makethe choice of whether to attend that school or remain a free agent I would even pay them so they would not change their mind. Another problem is that you can not make your own set plays. It is impossible. Screens do not work and an open shot has the same possibilities to go in as a really good contested shot. I would enjoy the game much more if it didn't crash like a drunk Jason Kidd! GOOD LUCK IN FUTURE INSTALLMENTS

Hey folks, did you like Basketball Pro Manager 2015?! No? Yeah, me neither. Well, good news! It's back - with a slight rearrangement of the words in the title, anyway - and this time, it's got shooting fouls! Pros: 1) English translation of French terms will keep you on your toes, regardless of your basketball knowledge. Your starting PG just got the master key? Hey, good for him. 2) You will become intimately familiar with the various menus and submenus as you try and track down the location of fundamental components like statistical leaders and free agents. 3) Worried that your team is lacking firepower on the perimeter? Never mind, that 6/20 rated three point shooting SF has got you covered - 60% on the year on just under 1 attempt a game. 4) Worried that those teeny little guards aren't going to help out on the glass? Don't be! With the rigidly scripted 3Dish engine, your guards have as much chance of being in a rebounding position as I do of firing this title up again. 5) Did I mention shooting fouls?! Cons: 1) My lack of familiarity with professional basketball coaching probably had something to do with my 4/20 rated 3pt shooting starting forward firing up 5.5 3pt attempts per game on a .008 clip for the year. 2) My lack of familiarity with Vietnamese culture probably had something to do with me not finding it authentic having Vietnamese prospects with American names. Highly recommended!

I have to agree the bad reviews might have been written too fast. The game is a very good basketball management game. It's a finished product and is updated frequently by the Devs. The Devs are also very active on the main game forum, taking suggestions and helping people out with issues - nice to see! The price is great for what you get, and the option to buy the US only version which excludes all leagues minus the NBA + NCAA is GREAT! This means if you only want to play NBA buy the US Edition for half the price. The game has a lot of potential. Yes some of the UI needs fixing as finding some options takes a few clicks but it's all being noted down on their forum follwing player feedback. If you are looking for a good and very in depth basketball sim then don't be worried to purchase this game.

I like Basketball, I love the game. Simple as that, as there is no other game out there that comes that close to Football Manager. My only BIG issue with this game is that the 2D presentation is toooo small!!! It wouldn't hurt nor would it be that difficult to make it double the size! My eyes hurt, seriously! No, I wont watch the games in 3D because it is crap and I enjoy a simulated game better in a 2D view mode!

Entertaining and deep simulation with a few quirks in a short time playing. Biggest issue so far is adjusting to odd English translations for game actions. "The referees take (player x)" is a common penalty call, for instance. Other than that localization issue, the gameplay is clearly deep, with both pro and college teams, male and female, and the ability to manage do what degree you choose. There's the ability to design your own plays, run specific ones, or just say "Hey, PG, shoot a 3 this time." However, just like coaches have to deal with, the players won't always react how you want. There's morale, injuries, and all of the typical details you'd expect in such a sim. Only a bit into it so far (with one come-from-behind 16 point turn around by Michigan State over Kansas), but it's there's quite a bit here to get into. Time will tell how it stands up. Now, I present to you the end of my review and the beginning of my personal musical's hit number, "Bork!" *curtain rises* Bork! Mmmm bork bork bork! Mmmmm bork! BORK BORK bork bork BORK BORK mmmmm BORK! *curtain lowers to thunderous applause*

As someone who loves basketball i gotta say this game is awful there are no positives and some in excusable cons. Im 100% sure that the NBA is the most used league and its impossible to play in it. 1. there is no way to see your record or the standings around the league 2. this is the worst part of the game when you coach in the NBA there is no free agency at all or there is no list of free agents and all the big name players resign with there original team so you have to build your team throught the draft and thats it

As an avid fan of manager games and having sunk several hundreds of hours into FM, I was excited to see this game released. I skipped the 2015 edition of this game and hoped that 2016 would be a better game. So far, this game has not met my expecations. The game is clunky, UI is messy, and the 3D engine is quite disastrous. Everything runs a couple seconds late, the animations are bad at best, and the game does not come with the right tools for you to make on the fly decisions as a "basketball manager." That isn't to say this game does not have potential. The foundation has been laid for what could be a great game, but the devs will need to expand upon it to optimze the game performance and reduce the crashes. If they can do that, I would have happy to change my review to a recommend, but at this point, I simply cannot recommend this to anyone, even if you are a fan of simulation series/basketball.

This game has potential. It has times where it is fun and an enjoyable challenge but those are too few for me to recommend this game. The devil is in the details they say and the details is what kills this game (besides the repeated crashes and bad game engine). Let me give some examples... The satisfaction of fans and the directors is ridiculously maddening with its nonsense. Fan satisfaction is changed by either win/loss streaks of 5+ games or winning/losing by 15+ points. So if you win 5 straight games then lose 4 straight games and rinse and repeat the fans will be more pleased by this than if you take a bad team and win 4 games and lose 1 (but not getting you that 5 game win streak) and get a much better record at the end of the season. The directors are even worse. They will usually give you a goal at the start of a season and there have been times where I have far exceeded the goal and won playoffs series and even won a title with an awful team (example: I just beat the Cavaliers who had three 5 star players with a mediocre 76ers team in an epic series and I got fired after the series halfway through the playoffs. No organization would fire a coach midplayoffs especially one that just had a massive David vs Goliath victory). Another example of the details killing this gme is when my star NBA player on my team would miss 3 out of every 4 layups on a fast break. This is just so unrealistic that it hurts to watch. These are the best players in the world doing the most basic basketball move and just clunking it. How? How is this possible? How do Blake Griffin and Lebron James not know how to do something that a JV benchwarmer who spends the entire season polishing the pine with his bottom can with regularity. Many people have gone into how bad the game engine is and how often the game crashes (I just stopped playing the games at one point and simmed the seasons because I was sick of it crashing) so I will not go into that part. I wish I could give this game a more favorable review and be ready for this game to make you want to tear your hair out if you purchase it. Hopefully the makers will take lessons from this and improve on it.

I have played past releases of this game and they were terrible for NBA fan and more suited to Euro comp. But this is a huge step in right direction. It is not the most stable game and has a habit of crashing. And is not perfect, would like more options to set overall team strategies, instruct players to avoid fouls (ai seems to adjust this even when you're coaching), no way to guage interest in trades or put players on the block, and player tactics does not allow you to save them. But it is clear that the team behind this a serious about making this a good product and even if it is a few years down the track I will continue to support because it is the only good basketball management game out and year on year it gets better.

TLDR; I love basketball and manager games, this one is so bad that I'd rather keep playing football/soccer managers or really do anything else than deal with this rather Early access product. I really want to like this game. I really do. So much that I ignored the "mixed" reviews. I love sports management simulations and would love to have a good basketball one. This one isn't it, sadly. It seems rushed and half done, more like an early access title. It is: - crashes constantly (~ 1 crash per hour for me, hope you saved!) - absolutely lacking documentation, the "manual" is a joke, couldn't even find what skills influence exactly what - riddled with bugs (for example you can hire the same scout twice, he will show up twice, salary deducted twice, but he can only ever be on one mission) - lots of unpolishedness that with tiem drives you crazy (select sorting, go to player page, go back, sorting gone :( ) - missing features (or things I can't find in the game or the manual) - hey you are scouting this player, oh you realized after an update he is not for you - there is NO WAY (that I can find) to abort scouting that player so hey continue wasting resources on them - Game gets ridicoulosly slow at times, e.g. if I played a game, simulated till end and afterwards want to simulate the schedule. At one time it just stopped after minutes. An no I haven't selected too many leagues, restart and reload the game and everything happens in seconds again (some sort of leak I guess) That are just a few of the things. You can also find a "
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