Team USA member and NBA leading scorer Kevin Durant recently sat down with 2K Sports' Ronnie Singh to discuss being on the cover of NBA 2K, his in-game player rating and to answer fan questions.
"I am very excited to be part of it," Durant said to Singh. "I have been playing the game for a very long time and I've been waiting for two or three years to be on the cover of it. But you know Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and those guys pushed me to the side, which I understand. I'm just excited to be part of everything I cannot wait for this thing to come out."
In the interview Kevin addresses how he utilizes his in-game character to ball hog and his 95 in-game players rating.
"I like to shoot every time I touch the ball that is what I do if I am playing with myself. Nothing more that's about it," Durant said. "I'm a little bias, so I will say a hundred. I don't think nobody ever been a hundred."
However, Durant seemed to be okay with his 95-rating, after Singh told him that his shooting skills were of the charts. He also expressed that he is a longtime player of the video game and that he has a ritual of playing the game before he takes an actual NBA court.
This year's NBA 2K13 sports Kinect integration and a few significant changes to gameplay.The shot stick in NBA 2K13 will be featured on the left analog stick, as oppose to last year's edition which utilized the right analog stick. In typical NBA 2K fashion the left stick will control the player movement, but when the gamer hits the left trigger, the user-controlled athlete begins his shot motion. This new innovation could either make for a more fluid control or could just feel really strange.
NBA 2K13 is scheduled to release on Oct. 2, for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo Wii and PC.
You can catch the NBA 2k13 interview with Kevin Durant in the video below.
