OS Staff Selects Our 2016 Sports Game of the Year

[RaychelSnr]

The Staff Sports Game of the Year has been handed out for over a decade now here at Operation Sports. The process for how we decide the sports game of the year is simple for our staff voting: We simply have everyone send their top three sports games of the year and assign them points in a reverse manner (3 points for 1st, 2 for 2nd, 1 for 3rd).

We do it this way because we want to be able to award the top three sports games as voted on by the staff, so we allow the staff to vote on three total games on their list.

Over the past several seasons, NBA 2K has dominated this list, winning the last several years thanks to a lot of innovation and a polished presentation and gameplay product.

Did NBA 2K17 hold onto the crown? Let's make the jump and find out!


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[mike24forever]

You can't go wrong with any of these picks.

[Gosens6]

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No Pro Evolution Soccer? As much as I love NBA 2K, it would have been 3rd on my list, barely.

1. PES 2017
2. MLB The Show
3. NBA 2K17

Just my opinion, of course.

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[SportsGameGod]

NBA 2k17 is the best game of the year. I buy every NBA Madden and Show every year.

NBA did in an incredible job. Easily the best.

[bxphenom7]

I would have put PES over Madden just because of how good the gameplay is. I feel like it's becoming the MLB of soccer games. NBA 2k deserves to be here because it is definitely the fullest package. I just hope they get rid of the legacy issues and revert the career node to what it onc was. There are plenty of ways without using a story to add immersion to the mode. This story stuff can exist, but not at the expense of the traditional career mode. That's something FIFA understood. A lot of the times when these studios say they base effort put into modes based on user usage %, it's really a half-assed way of allocating time. If modes don't change sufficiently from year to year, of course less people will play them. This doesn't mean you abandon the mode, no, you fix it, actually innovate w/in the mode.

Excuse the rant lol Just tired of seeing traditional career and franchise modes getting the ridiculously short-end of the stick.

[jcas007]

Re: OS Staff Selects Our 2016 Sports Game of the Year

I have them all ,all great

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[poulka]

I can agree with these I own an Xbox so have no recent dealing with the show. I agree with bxphenom7 franchise mode needs to be brought to the forefront with these gaming companies. Everyone is talking about Ultimate Team, but to me that mode is a side dish. It is like going to a restaurant and that restaurant only takes time fixing up the salad completely ignoring the fact that folks are tired of the steak. Nothing wrong with Ultimate Team, but franchise has been and will always be the backbone of the game. Innovate that mode I am a gamer for over 30 years the only reason I play is to be own realistic GM. Not a fantasy player what do we see sports news talking about real team transactions. Sure we have fantasy segments, but one again just a side bar. Come gaming companies put some innovation into franchise. MLB and NBA have, time for others to step up.

[ChaseB]

No Pro Evolution Soccer? As much as I love NBA 2K, it would have been 3rd on my list, barely.

1. PES 2017
2. MLB The Show
3. NBA 2K17

Just my opinion, of course.

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PES got a push from certain portions of the staff, don't think it had as much wide appeal as the other 3 is all. PES is fabulous in either case.

[TerryP]

Re: OS Staff Selects Our 2016 Sports Game of the Year

No Pro Evolution Soccer? As much as I love NBA 2K, it would have been 3rd on my list, barely.

1. PES 2017
2. MLB The Show
3. NBA 2K17

Just my opinion, of course.

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Right there with you on top 3, although hard to say what order 1-3 as they're all fantanstic!

[DBAB23]

For me, NBA and MLB are 1a & 1b, over everything else. The fact that I am actively playing MLB the show currently - well after the season being over is a testament to the game. I play NBA2K regularly and own Madden, but dont play it nearly enough to make my list personally. For me, all of the games on the list are great.

[Dazraz]

For me:-
NBA 2K17 is number 1...
MLB The Show 16 a close 2nd.
But if there's an award for the Most Imoroved Player then Madden 17 hands down. This game isn't perfect by any stretch, especially when compared to my top 2, but this is the most enjoyable the franchise has been since 05. I just hope & pray EA don't get lazy this year & push on & make this the game it deserves to be.

[Mike Lowe]

NBA 2k17 is the best game of the year. I buy every NBA Madden and Show every year.

NBA did in an incredible job. Easily the best.

Agreed. MLB The Show is not at the same level. I would vote The Show to be second best, if we're speaking about console only games. OOTP is still the best baseball game on the market overall though.

[jpollack34]

1. PES 2017
2. NBA 2K17
3. MLB The Show

Pro Evo 2017 is unbelievably good this year. Replicates its respective sport (the uniqueness of different players/teams) almost to the tee. It gets #1 imo.

[CujoMatty]

My son is a soccer fanatic and in the vancouver white caps farm system and had me playing fifa over christmas and i didn't enjoy it that much but im only a casual fan of the sport at best. I have EA access so i end up playing a bit of FIFA every year but other than looking darn pretty it does little else to garner my attention and i assumed it was because of my casual interest in the sport.
...........then out of boredom and apparently money burning a hole in my pocket i purchased PES 17. I hadn't played a konami soccer game since one of the winning eleven on ps2 and had reserved expectations. Wow is all i can really say. The gameplay is unbelievable and i honestly feel like the only thing keeping it from being #1 on the list is that its soccer. I asked my son why he doesn't play PES and he said hed heard the gameplay was good but the lack of liscences had stopped him from giving it a chance. I pretty much blew his mind when i showed him what the community has done with the option files.

[Damien23]

2k should've been number 1