NBA Playgrounds Reviews

lazy review, awesome game! what I like: + the game is easy to pick up and fun to play + people who are not into sports games like myself, could enjoy this game + getting and opening packs (there's no microtransactions, yet) + the caricature style the players have + legendary players (not you, Shaq) + dunking.. oh the dunking, I could dunk all night long.. it's really fun + lottery picks change things up a bit + the price is fair to me nitpicky things that annoy me: - could be more arcade-y, but this might change in the future with new modes - no easy and clear way to choose your players on the main menu - Shaq is making an annoying celebration move almost every time he dunks, it slows down the pace of the game.. why not just make him say BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA and move on with the game? - timing.. you could say it's skill, but I have no indicator how bad I shot, except the type on the hoop telling me "late" or "early", it's too small if you ask me. - no friend vs friend mode or local mode as far as I can tell.. yet. this game is basically an indie game, and it will get more stuff soon.. the devs push updates regularly. also if one of the dev team reads this, add more legends like Dr. J. and please make the legends not annoying, fix Shaq so he isn't dancing around half of the match!

Make sure you have a game controller if possible, playing on the keyboard is really tough! This is not backyard basketball where that game was mouse driven. I'm glad I had a logitech gamepad, things works awesome for this game. If you have a keyboard, you might have to reconfigure your keys. It's NBA Jam light! I like that it is 3D-ish, so you have better view of steals and blocks. Dunk timing is hard, but after 1 or 2 hours you'll get the hang of it. I have not played online yet, but the AI is decent, so solo play is fun. It's an arcade game, and I can see myself playing this after a long day of work for ridiculous dunks. Note you do not get all the players, you unwrap them as you play. You'll get two/three legendary players, and then some current players.

This game is fun and I enjoy it but you can't really play with friends because there is no invite option and the matchmaking is random so it's challenging for you to find them. This game would be 100x better if there were different modes such as 4v4s with 2 people on each team or 1v1s and custom lobbies where you could invite friends. I still would recommend this game to others due to the fact of how smooth and fun the game is.

Once the game was released,it was real fun experience and had a lot of potential,even tho shooters were super unbalanced and having Ray Allen meant winning the game,it was still enjoyable.Unfortunately devs just kept ruining the game with every new update being worse than the latter one.Adding the shot meter killed the fun in 3pt shooting.After so much hype during the first days of the game,Game is pretty much empty in EU.

Great game. What needs to be better: 1. Play with your friend against two different players(4 players on 2x2 with a new ranking, specificied to this category). 2. An option to invite friend and play online against him. Since you can't invite nobody, it's just random row. 3. Regulate the match up online, sometimes it's laggy, we prefer to play against a better/worst player than one from a different region.

It's a pretty nice Arcade Basketball game with awesome graphics (supports 4K resolution). Gameplay is nice, also the stadiums are nice but the AI needs some fixing, acts with a weird way most of the times, but in general the game is enjoyable and worths it's price (got it on sale 50% off). Recommended.

On the positive side this game is a modern update to classics like NBA Hangtime & NBA Jam Tournament Edition. However, a few key areas of game play make this quite frustrating to have a "flow" to the game. Suggestions below can be improved upon and hopefully made better in the next patches. 1) Rebounding. The rebounding/box out is seemingly random or heavily favored to the AI for offensive rebounds. At least 5 times to ten times a game in three minutes both my player and CPU player are standing over a basketball on the ground and cannot pick it up while the AI opponent casually walks over and grabs the ball. This is very frustrating over 3 minutes of play. 2) Cross-over dribbling. While excellent, they wipe out 1/2 or more stamina even on players with a high stamina rating. This would never happen in most arcade games so I hope this can be adjusted to allow for multiple cross overs or an option for unlimited. 3) Fade away jumpers. The difficulty in converting a fade away jump shot is almost impossible. I have played as "legend" Tracy McGrady and his shot bar for success on a fade away jump shot is so small and such a difficult narrow window to press shoot that is becomes almost useless to attempt a fade away. 4) Online play. I agree experience points are useful before online play. However, my first opponent played with a team containing Paul George and blocked my shot 10 times and scored at least five three pointers and was next to unguardable. Even Alonzo Mourning could not block dunks in the paint. 5) Clear outs / steal attempts. Same frustrating challenge as cross-over dribbling. One steal attempt or push attempt should not clear out over 33% of stamina. I understand this is not an unlimited turbo game with unlimited pushing and am not asking for that. I think three push attempts per 100% stamina is not too much to ask here is it? There seems to be overcompensation for foulless games and like the game NBA Showtime: NBA ON NBC on Nintendo 64. At least consider an "arcade" mode and simulation mode if that is the key. I thought this game was more "arcade" but it seems to hold onto a bit too much "simulation" in games. Considering I have 3 hours of gameplay it very well could be that I need to play another 15-20 hours to get my experience points up to increase stamina but it seems unlikely. Graphics are pretty nice (GTX 970, 16GB RAM, I7 3.4 GHZ Intel Processor, 1TB HDD). The player cards are fun and I like the random aspect of obtaining "average" to "legend" players in the player packs.

Really reminds me of the good old NBA Jam game. The single player is fun, but can get boring, this game is meant to be played with friends on the couch, autistically schreeching at eachother when you get blocked at the last second. Pros: - Looks great! - Plays great with gamepad - Sometimes actually challenging in the tournaments - LEGENDARY PLAYERS!!!!111 - No pay to win, just work through games/tournaments, earn xp, get cards Cons: - Pricey, get it at a sale - Commentary can get a bit lame sometimes - Music gets repetitive

The game is fantastic, only gripe is not telling you what the "perfect dunk" is.. or perfect shot is for that matter. A mix on NBA JAM and Street which hits the feels being a former NBA Showtime tournament player. How is it a mix? Look down below NBA JAM: -obvious 2v2 gameplay -High flying dunks - Shoving as an option NBA Street: Actually gearing off into​ NBA Street HOMECOURT territory, the timing of your shots/dunks factor in of you getting extra points much like the double dunk mechanic. -Gamebreaker-esque meter. Arcade gaming is back. Time for the NullDC emulator to be on the shelf a little bit. EDIT: For perfect shots/dunks, looks like the peak of jumps. Isn't common either so far. Will update if anything happens. EDIT P2: Online is pretty solid. And you get points even when people rage quit (Street fighter 5 take notes) xD

GET THis game and let your life change for the better and let all your friendships and rivalries come to an end. s/o 2 maddog and saber interactive for putting so much effort in this game, talking 2 the community and doing bug fixes and updates this game is gonna be the norm in the future gg