There are a lot of 2K games on the 360. 2K is one of the early period games from 2005-2009 which unless you played them all when they came out end up being pretty similar. I quite enjoy watching basketball, I enjoy playing basketball, and I sometimes enjoy basketball games. Yet, I definitely am more of the casual market when it comes to basketball games. Now as a casual, This first group of 5 games feels pretty similar. It's a premium quality package, the FIFA of basketball with the biggest market share. It feels quality, the menus, the licensed teams and players, the music and variety of game modes. But again, as a casual, it's kinda hard to play. You use the right stick to shoot, pulling down then up in a straight motion, a bit like golf games. This seems to work quite well and I would imagine if I didn't suck, it would be a more realistic way to shoot. As someone with no idea of tactics, plays and when to shoot, it just adds more barriers to my entry. Within this series of games there are a few minor differences, with 2K8 stripping a few features that 2K7 added and 2K10 introducing the MYplayer mode which went on to become pretty popular. Should you pick up one of these games? Well they were good on release, they really killed off the inferior NBA Live series which died with NBA Live 11, but with the later and better 2k games on the console, all of which are mega cheap, there little point in owning these aside from nostalgia. Decent basketball games at the time, but pretty much worthless in terms of creating a 360 collection now. In terms of 2K8 specifically, nothing really stands out. It was praised for it's graphics and online play on release, but neither of those are big factors now. The major complaint is about the poor defensive AI, but again I suck too much to know the difference. There's nothing special here that you can't find elsewhere so for that reason I can't recommend it.