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The new NBA Live video game is less fun than getting beat up in gym class by Matt Weinberger on Oct 27, 2015, 2:22 PM Advertisement
 Before I tell you about NBA Live 2K16, the latest entry in EA Sports' annual basketball franchise, let me tell you a true story about my pre-teen years. One Saturday at my Jewish sleepover camp, it was decreed that we would all play a pickup game of basketball against another bunk. While wearing our Saturday synagogue finest. The referee, realizing after about three seconds that I literally had no idea what I was doing, excused me. Which was great, because I was halfway through Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," and was super into finishing it. Fast forward to this month, when EA Sports sent us a review copy of NBA Live 2K16. These days, I still don't know much of anything about NBA basketball, except for what was in the movie "Space Jam," a movie where Michael Jordan helps Bugs Bunny defeat aliens at basketball. (And yet, Donald Trump thinks Kareem Abdul-Jabaar is the "loser." Makes you think.) But even with this lack of knowledge, I decided to tackle EA Sports' NBA Live 2K16 video game with the same open mind with which I found Madden NFL 16 football to be a lot of fun. After all, I do know video games. I can't tell you if NBA Live 2K16 is an accurate representation of basketball. Or how it stacks up to its better-loved rival franchise, 2K Sports NBA 2K16 — though our friends at Tech Insider say that NBA 2K16 is great. What I can tell you is that NBA Live 2K16 made me wish I could be excused to go read Frankenstein. Here's why. SEE ALSO: I'm a hardcore gamer who knows nothing about football — here's what I thought playing Madden the first time I decided the best way to dive in was with the game's "Learn 2 Live" mode, which is not actually a self-help seminar as I first assumed. It's actually distinctly unhelpful, given that I had no idea what a "layup" is. When it offered to help with my "post game," I thought I was going to learn how to nail chugging Gatorade. 
One of NBA 2K16's most ballyhooed features is the "Rising Star" mode, which lets you take a player of your own design from being a rookie to, ideally, superstar status. I figured it was a good place to start, since I am, indeed, a rookie. 
With the help of an attendant iPhone and Android app, you can even scan your face and upload it into NBA Live 2k16. The NBA Live version of Matt Weinberger is named "Leon Casablancas," the announcers have nicknamed him "Cannon," and he is a 6'7", 220-pound beast of a...of a...I'm not sure what position I picked for him. Basketball guy. 
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