College Hoops 2K6

A new year has brought a new tact to playing games. With a backlog of games over 300 large, it was high time to start getting some of these off of the list. To do this, I’ve started gaining focus by using a random generator to pick one of my 30 easiest games and just go and complete it – started or not. The other started games will be there when I get around to them. At the same time, I’m keeping up with daily rubbish in Elder Scrolls Online and Destiny 2 in some vein hope that I will complete them some day. I moved a hell of a lot closer to an Elder Scrolls Online completion by obtaining the Emperor achievement with a bunch of guys so that was pretty cool.

You may think, I’m dragging this out and you know what, you’re right. The reason being there isn’t a lot to say about College Hoops 2K6 other than it’s a very American Basketball game.

A while ago, I engaged on a game exchange with one of my American gaming friends where he supplied me with a load of American-only Xbox 360 games in exchange for some European-only ones. The one thing I was missing was an American Xbox to actually play them. Luckily, I had a real-life friend living in Virginia who was able to procure me this item and bring it back across the Atlantic for me.

Annnnd College Hoops 2K6 was the first game to be completed on said Xbox! And I played it for a grand total of 45 minutes. In terms of a game, it’s pretty much the same as the last basketball game I played, except with more American fan-faire. Looks wise, it’s not aged well either and the game interfaces were massively confusing.

Achievements – 1,000 Points – 5 Achievements

It’s a really light and quick list which one minor exception. I played one game after adjusting the in-game sliders to make my team awesome and the CPU team terrible and got four achievements for rebounds, points with one player, three pointers and steals.

The only achievement left after that was for getting 6 blocks with one player and the only way to do this quickly was to get two controllers and play a game to make the blocks happen with the same player. Even then it was really difficult to see what was happening and I was relying on the in-game counter rather than seeing the blocks take place.

Downloadable Content – N/A

Playing College Hoops 2K6 was a pretty pointless endeavour in terms of gaming but it’s a quick and easy 1,000 points on the board. If you really want to play a basketball game, it’s best to go with something much more modern.