2K Sports' Coaches and Chants
Both are highlights of their upcoming college hoops title.
Published: October 19, 2006
College basketball -- hell, college sports in general -- are usually left with the table scraps of the pro big brothers; last year's engine, fewer animations, smaller development teams, etc. etc. But, with the whole next-gen leap, it really doesn't make much sense to have a PS3 game looking like a PS2 game when the NBA version looks... well, just look at it, man, it's gorgeous.
No, the college games, at least for a time, will probably look fairly close to their more popular counterparts, and that’s a good thing. Not that developer Visual Concepts and poppa publisher 2K Sports are skimping on this year's college basketball entry, mind you. Quite the contrary; they've added in more than 200 college fight songs, and built in a Create-a-Chant mode that uses bits and pieces of percussion, letters, mascots, states/regions and full words. We can't wait to see what kind of fun messages folks have online. They're sure to be good, clean fun.
2K also threw in a new Coach Mode, where you'll actually watch the court in first-person view from the eyes of actual college coaches like Jay Wright, Billy Donovan Roy Williams and John Calipari -- a first for any college basketball game -- calling plays and traveling up and down the court with the same perspective all those lovably red-faced, screaming coaches of yore have had. It's all part of Visual Concepts' attempt to suck the player into the game, to make it more like the real-- well, we'll just let them tell you.
“The intensity and excitement that fills a gym during a heated college basketball game is incredible,” intoned Greg Thomas, president of Visual Concepts. “College Hoops 2K7 truly captures the authentic college basketball game atmosphere, enhanced by the all-new Chant Creator and revamped Coach Mode.”
See? Even Greg agrees with us; these are fairly major additions. Now, to see how the game actually ends up playing. The PS3 version of the game hits next year, while the PS2 version will arrive right around the PS3 launch.
No, the college games, at least for a time, will probably look fairly close to their more popular counterparts, and that’s a good thing. Not that developer Visual Concepts and poppa publisher 2K Sports are skimping on this year's college basketball entry, mind you. Quite the contrary; they've added in more than 200 college fight songs, and built in a Create-a-Chant mode that uses bits and pieces of percussion, letters, mascots, states/regions and full words. We can't wait to see what kind of fun messages folks have online. They're sure to be good, clean fun.
2K also threw in a new Coach Mode, where you'll actually watch the court in first-person view from the eyes of actual college coaches like Jay Wright, Billy Donovan Roy Williams and John Calipari -- a first for any college basketball game -- calling plays and traveling up and down the court with the same perspective all those lovably red-faced, screaming coaches of yore have had. It's all part of Visual Concepts' attempt to suck the player into the game, to make it more like the real-- well, we'll just let them tell you.
“The intensity and excitement that fills a gym during a heated college basketball game is incredible,” intoned Greg Thomas, president of Visual Concepts. “College Hoops 2K7 truly captures the authentic college basketball game atmosphere, enhanced by the all-new Chant Creator and revamped Coach Mode.”
See? Even Greg agrees with us; these are fairly major additions. Now, to see how the game actually ends up playing. The PS3 version of the game hits next year, while the PS2 version will arrive right around the PS3 launch.