Basketball Pro 3D NBA 2013

Developer Visual Concepts continues to keep the bar high,

enhancing the realism of and adding a superb new control scheme to this excellent recreation of pro basketball.

Hardcore hoops fans, lapsed b-ball followers, and anyone else who even casually picks up the odd sports game should play Basketball NBA 2017 ultimate.

Pace, graphics, animations, sound effects, and commentary are all so dead on that you feel like you've walked onto the court at Staples Center or Madison Square Garden.

Only a few issues with the interface and the absence of controller tutorials,

along with ridiculously overblown production values courtesy of guest executive producer Jay Z,

get between you and the full appreciation of what looks, sounds, and feels like the real thing.

All of the offline and online modes of play are back for another season, so you can practice plays,

run franchises, play one-off matches or the playoffs, hit the schoolyard for three-on-three blacktop action,

mess around with legendary clubs, and so on.

You can even make your own kicks now, through a 2K Shoes creator module.

Most of the core options have been glitzed up.

MyPlayer has been dramatically expanded and renamed MyCareer.

You now not only create an Basketball Pro 3D NBA 2013 wannabe, you role-play him through all sorts of off-court situations.

You can be a good guy or a heel, a Steve Nash or a Kobe Bryant.

This means you get to dress up in flashy clothes and accoutrements for arriving at games, sign shoe endorsements,

play egotistical brat when meeting with GMs before the draft, try to get your coach fired, and stir up fans on social media.