Blake Anglin states, "With such a wealth of modes and second-to-none presentation and controls, NBA2K12 is the best basketball sim ever made, period. The few niggling problems I have with it, such as the airball-worthy on-line offerings and unbalanced player skill levels (the drop-off between the elite players and even good players is staggering), don't even hold much of a candle to its excellence. Heck, it's better than watching the real NBA."
