NBA Playgrounds 2

NBA Playgrounds 2 Announced - Trailer, Screenshots and Details Revealed

Steve Noah

Published on April 17, 2018

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Saber Interactive has announced NBA Playgrounds 2, scheduled to arrive this summer for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam). The game will feature a new Season Mode and Playgrounds Championship ranked mode. The roster is expected to feature over 200 current and retired NBA players with new player models and animations.

Below are some of the details revealed about the game, but make sure to read the full article over at the PlayStation.Blog.

Playgrounds Championship is a worldwide online league with several divisions where you can climb the ladder to the top
Create co-op leagues and climb the ranks with a friend or play in a solo league
Dedicated servers for fast online matchmaking and responsive gameplay
Added four-player online games where you can have each player be a human player online or any combination of human and AI opponents
Season Mode is a single player experience, taking your team through a season, the playoffs, and NBA Championship, with special players to collect depending on the team you choose
New player models, new animations, including facial animations have been added
AI has been improved
Dozens of tracks of new original music recorded
New gameplay mechanics like double alley-oops have been added

New Lottery Pick Power Ups like Frozen Basket & Curse will bring a new strategic element to the playgrounds. Test them out in new playground courts in cities like Santa Monica and Grand Canyon. You can also now earn vanity items to customize your players! #PlayWithoutLimits pic.twitter.com/embY0YJ1Ok

— NBA Playgrounds (@nba_playgrounds) May 1, 2018

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Mintsa 04-17-2018 09:43:19 AM (EDT)

Oh dear..........

Dead2009 04-17-2018 12:13:34 PM (EDT)

Hopefully the shooting is leaps and bounds better in this game than the last. I stopped playing the first because of that.

Turbojugend 04-17-2018 06:51:15 PM (EDT)

Gameplay will have to be a massive improvement for me to consider a purchase. I could barely get through an hour of the original, and I'm an Extreme Hoops junkie.

inkcil 04-18-2018 12:05:08 AM (EDT)

Trailer makes it look like a PS4 exclusive at the end...hoping for some indoor courts since there is a Season/Playoff mode.

DBMcGee3 04-18-2018 09:58:38 AM (EDT)

Meh, fool me once.....

Mintsa 04-18-2018 10:48:25 AM (EDT)

DBMcGee3
Meh, fool me once.....

Trust me......someone else can buy the game and tell me about this time. And not all of the youtubers who made vids and said how “lit” this game was.......to only be completely wrong and ironically have all of them be in the game in a future patch.......lol!!
What a scam. Also, who would actually want to use one of the youtubers characters ?? LOL. Make Bill Clinton a usable special character......that’s “lit”.

da_centa_fielda 04-18-2018 01:17:14 PM (EDT)

Did people really enjoy the 1st one that much that they made a sequal? Wow! The first one was one of the worst basketball games I ever played.

23 04-18-2018 05:58:10 PM (EDT)

Looks too much like the exact same game

Dead2009 04-21-2018 04:47:06 PM (EDT)

da_centa_fielda
Did people really enjoy the 1st one that much that they made a sequal? Wow! The first one was one of the worst basketball games I ever played.*

I enjoyed it until they destroyed the shooting mechanics.

snc237 04-21-2018 05:44:18 PM (EDT)

I felt pretty burned on the first one. I will hold out for the rumoured NBA jam.

acidfrehley 04-29-2018 01:23:08 PM (EDT)

I've had tons of fun with the first one. The one thing I felt short was the replayability.
Once you've finished all the challenges, there is no point of keep on playing (since online is filled with idiots), and playing exhibition games over and over is boring as hell.
I'll def try out Playgrounds 2 though.