NBA 2K21: Kotku Review

When I sit down with a new 2K basketball game every year, I usually take a moment to review its MyCareer mode, as this is the part I am most interested in. But this year I flew as fast as I could play. The rest of the game, too, so surprisingly, we’re getting reviews All Of NBA 2K21. What turned out was pretty easy to do, as little has changed since then 2K20.

I don’t mean “all sports are just roster updates”, I mean literally. In case you couldn’t tell already Of Madonna 21 Lack of reviews or Fact PES 2021 Also did not come out as a standalone publication, 2020 will be a very bad year for sports video games.

It always had to be this way, because that’s the story whenever we jump into a new console pay generation. Developers like 2K and EA Sports, usually trying to develop a game in a year, suddenly had to introduce two, where the last money is all version, where all the money is, and one subsequent-version, where all the headlines are.

To cut off the door corners of both games, shoutouts have been taken and a 3D model or menu or even a game mode can be recycled everywhere, instead of being created or refined, you can be sure that your ass will be recycled. .

If case 2020 becomes normal it will happen. And that’s far from normal! Just now for the developers, imagine what is being accounted for We also have to work from home in the midst of a global epidemic. So when I spend saying this review NBA 2K21 Filled with rished material, I say this with a slightly heavier heart than usual, as the fact that we are getting new games in 2020 is a blessing considering the development, economic and logistical difficulties involved.

Also, this is a full-priced game with a beating heart of a mobile-free-to-play scam, so my sympathies just extend that far.

NBA 2K21 Seen through the eyes of a boring fanbase, it is the experience of 2K at the same time, which leads to its logical conclusion. It’s a sporting exercise, an experiment by the publisher that can see what players can offer players while increasing their profits. This game is the smallest of the upgrades, in some cases a Downgrade What has happened before, and yet at every step you are still being urged to spend real money on trinkets and upgrades, even in singleplayer game modes, even though this is already a full-priced retail game.

After that it is worth getting the most real upgrades 2K21 Outside of the redesigned Neighborhood Hub World is the 2K version of Miteim, EA’s Ultimate Team, aka game mode where you can spend real money on a pack of cards that can include good players, and not more often … it’s not. He got a whole new coat of paint, a surprisingly coarse casino theme change, his progress system rebuilt, so if you spend your time on it and a lot of people do, even if they know what they’re doing, you’ll get yourself back in! You will be more excited 2K21 More than I do, especially when we get to the review part when I talk about how I actually do this playing.

Mylag and MyGM, though almost unchanged. It sucks especially for MyGM, which I had quietly hoped for Years Was going to be the next best thing about 2K Series. The NBA will have its small rosters, big celebrities and constant drama Perfect The setup for a more comprehensive, theatrical management mode – basically bringing MyCarrier’s cutness to the backroom – and it’s a pity that 2K ignores it.

Speaking of neglect, let’s now turn our attention to MyCareer. First the game’s main performance mode and the # 1 selling point, and here’s my only focus Kotku (This will be the seventh consecutive year I’ve covered it), MyCarrier was one of the most innovative singleplayer campaigns of all video games. Marrying a sports game action for character progression like dramatic cutness and RPG was like a dream come true for plenty of fans, and for a while there every New Year promised that 2K would finally take out the kinks of MyCarrier and deliver full singleplayer games. Game Experience.

Only they never managed it. It seemed that the harder 2K tried, the more expensive outside help they would bring, the more they got by receiving it. Whether it’s a behind-the-scenes production of Spike Lee or LeBron James, something will always be there. Off About MyCareer, “PoochiSupporting characters in painted dialogs on clicked storylines.

And before we get close to the biggest problem of the mode, Which was a gradual infiltration of microtransactions. Inside Singleplayer mode.

It’s so frustrating! Every year they get one thing right, then talk nonsense. Two years later That The part would be great, but something Second Will break. 2K can never combine all of this like it is powered by EA Sports FIFA’s The Journey, Which has since surpassed MyCarrier as the pinnacle of singleplayer sports storylines. Sure, there were some years most Content came together –2 or 17 Probably the sweetest spot – but will be followed later 2K18Which was a complete disaster.

I say all this to lead to the fact 2K21 All of this manages to learn very little, and one of the most memorable chapters in the increasingly memorable saga ends. It’s a bag of themes and heartbeats already used in previous entries, and it’s surrounded by these weird annoyances as the background characters are worn by a random clothing generator, and two of the game’s leading women are looking for it. Surprising Same, as long as I spent most of this story wondering if it was a very poorly-signed twist that they would become sisters.

This year you will play as a junior, a child whose father was a legend of college ledge hoops, but who has recently passed away. You’re a good player yourself, a high school recruit who spends my career somehow living in the shadow of his dad, while clearly a better player. Along the way you’ll meet a suspicious agent trying to get one last score (Michael K. Williams), make a college girlfriend date, play with a friend, and get rivals on a rival team.

There is zero play. Zero suspense as you play it, it ends, and the only thing that breaks the monotony is some weird moments where the decisions you make in a split-second dialogue option (like a draft interview and the one you choose as your agent) are overwhelming for the rest of the people. There may be interruptions. Your career.

It ticks all the basic box boxes needed for the position, I guess? But I’m fed up with it. The idea is not in itself, I still want singleplayer sports stories, the same way they are implemented here. MyCareer Sports Movie relies heavily on trolls, and it tracks performance in your sport (and downtime penalties) that quickly cuts off the fun of just playing basketball.

It’s all too embarrassing, because as always, a video non-court product can be the best entertainment of any professional game in all video games. There have been minimal improvements, at least when it comes Of 2K21 The visuals, but the gameplay tweaks done were good. A new shot meter for experienced players may seem tough at first but with a little work it feels really nice, firm and fair, and movement with the ball, especially on the perimeter, feels a lot freer and more expressive than usual.

This 2K The series always makes such great sense Being On the court. Each player has a heft, a Place, And those games are rare among games in which they let you lean towards the physics of the game – the players, really obscuring it instead of its speed and tricks. What I say is when you are Only playing basketball .l, Something focused on anything other than squeezing the other team’s neck and playing some d, this is not the best I remember.

Problem with 2KHowever, and this year is bigger than this before, it is that you can hardly be clear in your perspective. In 2K21, As we have seen over the last few years, Every moment of fun at the court weakens the racket that runs it.

Important note: This covers the review version NBA 2K21 Currently available in stores developed for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. The game is also coming to the PS5 and Xbox Series X next year, and if the game changes significantly I’ll try and write about them separately.

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