{"title":"Basketball","description":"\u003cp\u003eBasketball games bring the fast-paced excitement, athletic skill, and strategic depth of one of the world's most popular sports to interactive life, letting players dribble, pass, shoot, and dunk their way to victory on the hardwood. These games capture both the individual brilliance and team coordination of basketball, from clutch buzzer-beaters and highlight-reel dunks to the tactical chess match of offensive sets and defensive schemes. Players can compete in realistic simulations with authentic rules, licensed teams, and professional players, enjoy arcade-style games with over-the-top dunks and exaggerated athleticism, build a custom player from rookie to legend in career modes, or manage franchises by drafting prospects and building championship rosters. The genre combines split-second execution with basketball strategy, often featuring shot timing and release mechanics that reward practice, dribbling and passing controls that allow creative playmaking, and play-calling that lets players run authentic offensive and defensive strategies. Many titles also include season and playoff structures that mirror real leagues, player development and team management that add long-term depth, and pickup, streetball, and three-on-three modes that capture basketball's playground culture. Basketball games appeal to fans who want to play as their favourite teams and stars, competitive players who enjoy mastering the timing and skill of the sport, and anyone drawn to the energy, athleticism, and teamwork that make basketball such a thrilling game to play and watch.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nba-2k16-pc-download","title":"NBA 2K16","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eNBA 2K16 is the 2015 entry in Visual Concepts' flagship basketball series, and the year 2K handed MyCAREER to acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee. His story sits alongside a new motion engine, a re-imagined MyGM, a MyLEAGUE built to your exact specifications and 12 new classic teams, making this one of the deepest single-player basketball sims of its generation. It shipped more than four million copies in its first week, the fastest launch the series had seen at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLivin' Da Dream: MyCAREER as a Spike Lee Joint\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten, directed and produced by Spike Lee, Livin' Da Dream is the most intense first-person narrative the series had attempted. You play as Frequency Vibrations, known to everyone as Freq, a Harlem high school standout with the NBA firmly in his sights. The story carries him from the high school gym through college and onto the NBA draft stage, and you play the games that define each chapter along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt plays like a sports film you happen to be starring in, with cinematic cutscenes, a sharp script and a coming-of-age story about what the league asks of a young player as well as what it gives back. Few sports games have told a story with this much personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eRun the Whole Franchise with MyGM and MyLEAGUE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you would rather sit in the front office than lace up, NBA 2K16 gives you two very different ways to shape an organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMyGM\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eA completely re-imagined franchise mode where you run a team as its general manager, balancing the roster, the budget and the owner's expectations. New for NBA 2K16 are team relocation, Advanced Team Building, Summer Leagues and three-team trades, so a rebuild can mean a new city, a new identity and a trade deadline that genuinely tests you.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eMyLEAGUE\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eCustom build the league you want, with virtually every detail in your hands. Play a single season or stretch it into a franchise lasting up to 80 years, and watch drafts, trades and aging reshape the league long after today's stars have hung up their sneakers.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA New Motion Engine on the Court\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVisual Concepts rebuilt player movement for NBA 2K16. The new motion engine delivers smarter, more realistic movement and articulation, while new ball and rim physics and reworked player collisions make every drive, box-out and contested jumper feel physical. The result is basketball that rewards reading the floor and using spacing the way real NBA teams do, rather than relying on canned animations to bail you out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePlay Now, Classic Teams and Local Games\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2K has shut down the NBA 2K16 online servers, so online play, MyTEAM, MyPARK, 2K Pro-Am, MyLEAGUE Online, Virtual Currency and the in-game store are no longer available. Play Now remains the quickest way onto the floor, putting a current roster, a classic squad or a EuroLeague club up against the CPU, or against a friend sharing the same screen with full controller support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e12 new legendary teams:\u003c\/strong\u003e Some of the most memorable squads of the past 15 years join the classic lineup, so you can finally settle those arguments about which modern team would have come out on top in a head-to-head matchup.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e25 EuroLeague teams:\u003c\/strong\u003e Top European clubs round out the roster pool, giving you a different style of basketball to play with or against beyond the NBA's own franchises and a fresh challenge for anyone who knows the league inside out.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA soundtrack from three DJs:\u003c\/strong\u003e DJ Khaled, DJ Mustard and DJ Premier produced the series' biggest soundtrack to that point, 50 tracks spread across five playlists, including exclusive cuts from each of them to keep the menus and the court moving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStep into Freq's shoes, ride his story from Harlem to draft night, then take a seat in the GM's chair and build the franchise you have always argued you could run better.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2K","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33829049228,"sku":"PC_9625225292_DL_GL","price":55.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/files\/card-nba-2k16-pc-steam-game.jpg?v=1790267572"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/collections\/basketball.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}