Gaming’s Whacked Out Week: The Scary-Ass Face Scan Fails of ‘NBA 2K15’

For almost two decades, Resident Evil has been giving us the freaking willies with its lumpen inhabitants. From the standard issue zombies to hideous mutato-freaks like Lisa Trevor and Nemesis, we've seen all kinds of horrors. When man-sized locusts are spitting acid at your face, you know you've hit rock bottom.

But the Evil has nothing on this. Brr.

When PS4 and Xbox One were first announced, the PRtastic machine was on overdrive. You couldn't move for buzzwords like ‘groundbreaking,' ‘phenomenal' or ‘revolutionary.' Sometimes all three in the same damn sentence. We were hyped at 'til we could be hyped at no more, and many of us expected that the next generation would blow our balls off.

A year or so on from the consoles' release, though, our gonads remain firmly and cynically attached. Whatever your thoughts of Sony and Microsoft's new efforts, there's one thing we can all agree on: we were promised uprecedented realism in our sports games, and this ghastly freak with a face inside his effing face is not that.

NBA 2K15 thought it was bringing us unparalelled realism by putting ourselves into the game, via some fancy new techtastic. Instead, this happened. Several times.

Image via @JCarpio.