Seems like a bit of work should be done to make the fictional teams more realistic starting out.Īlso, I wish the game would have allowed me to easily quick-sim a few seasons to provide good statistical base for a fictional league if I chose to create one.įinally, I wish the game would allow you some more historical flexibility – by allowing you to start a career in 1962 or 1988 or 2011 (or whatever you prefer). For instance, when going the fictional player route for creating a new team, I found that after creating a new fictional franchise to replace Sacramento (sorry, Kings’ fans!), the game only placed 5 athletes on my team who were all being paid about $29,000 per year. However, I did have some quibbles with game’s customization options. You can also create your own fictional competition with real or fictional teams of your choosing. You can also adjust league rules such as whether teams can be promoted or relegated, how many foreign players are authorized in the league, the length of quarters and even the distance that the 3pt line is. You can tweak everything from team names & logos to player attributes and even their affinities with other people in the game world. Stephen Curry is Stephen Currz or Lebron James is LeBron Jamas), PBM2016 does ship with a very robust and easy to use data editor. Also, your created team can be either be filled with fictional players that match the current level of competition or you can start more barebones with an empty roster and grab some free agents.Īlso, while the game doesn’t come with real player or team names (i.e. So, if you’d like to add a WNBA franchise to Milwaukee or another NBA to Los Angeles (Why not?), you’re free to do so. When starting a new game, the game allows you to create a custom team – though you will need to replace a current team in the game. When you dig into it, PBM2016 definitely gives you some creative freedom. Although I was not able to get the 3D animations to work on my computer, from what you can view online, PBM2016’s 3D animations appear pretty rudimentary, even compared to the likes of Football Manager, but they’re a nice change of pace to watching little circles run around on the screen. And the in-game experience allows you to watch in either 2D or 3D while also giving you a nice bevy of statistical information to help you make the best decisions possible during the course of the game. Player cards and the training page use colors and graphs (and colored graphs!) to share the pertinent information in an interesting way. Although its user interface can be a bit clunky and unpolished at times, the game does a fine job with aspects like player cards, the training page and the in-game experience. Now, if it sounds like the game’s user interface & graphics is a complete failure, think again. I often just turned it off, and played my own music online. However, I found the game’s pre-packaged music to be average at best and annoying at worst. Interestingly, PBM2016 does come equipped with an in-game music player, and even allows you to play your own music from within the game. statistics for the league list of free agents), because it is often buried in some sub-menu. It often feels like it takes a few too many clicks to get to the information you want (i.e. The interface also doesn’t feel very streamlined. Words can be mis-spelled or oddly translated into English (Cyanide & Umix are French game studios). But after a while, you come to realize not everything is totally in order.įor starters, the user interface is plagued with some basic polish issues. When you first fire up the game, PBM2016’s user interface seems so clean, crisp and inviting. So it talks a big game, but does it deliver? Let’s find out. PBM2016 is a global basketball simulator allowing you to manage in more than 70 world competitions, including national competitions such as the Olympics. PBM2016 is the latest professional basketball simulator (formerly named “Basketball Pro Management”) developed by Umix Studios / Cynaide and published by Cyanide games. It certainly has flashes of brilliance, and its future could be really bright, but the question is: Do you want to take a chance on it now? But before we get ahead of ourselves, let me introduce you to the game. Pro Basketball Manager 2016 (PBM2016) reminds me of a pro prospect whose raw abilities are promising, but still are not fully polished. Reviewer’s Note: This game was reviewed using a pre-release copy up to version 1.0.0.7
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