“Hey Kobe, get your ass off the bench!”
Verbal commands such as this (OK, so those exact words probably won’t work) will be available to Xbox 360 Kinect hoopsters for the first time in NBA 2K13.
Instead of making couch potato ballers get up off their lazy spuds to hoop it up with full-body motion controls that probably wouldn’t work, Visual Concepts has integrated voice recognition into the game to allow for true floor generalship. You’ll be able to call for picks, clear out, run set plays, call players in off the bench, and even shower the coach with Gatorade using simple voice commands.
Study up on the game film to prep your Kinect voice game for the October 2nd NBA 2K13 tip-off. That’s for Xbox 360 in addition to PS3, PSP, Wii and PC, with a Wii U edition following later in the year.
Matt Litten is a 28 year old from-the-womb gamer turned video game reviewer/blogger and current editor/owner/operator of VGBlogger.com. Matt got his first taste of gaming as a youngster on the NES and Atari, and the rest is history from there.
In 2004, three years removed from high school and still looking for a career direction in life, Matt landed his first gig in the video game review business writing for the now-defunct website BonusStage.com. After the sad and untimely close of BonusStage, the former staff went on to found VGBlogger.com, and after a short stint as US Site Manager for AceGamez Matt turned his attention to VGBlogger, and to this day is dedicated to making it one of the top video game blogs in all the blogosphere.
Matt is a fair-minded reviewer and lover of games of all platforms and types, big or small, hyped or niche, big-budget or indie. But that doesn't mean he will let poor games slide without a good thrashing when necessary. 