Away from the NBA 2K MT court, it's another story. VC (or digital Money ) flows through everything, blocking off some issues in the otherwise top course MyCareer mode, and forcing you to choose between either upgrading your MyCareer expert or improving your MyTeam roster. Of course, the game really wants you to do , but to do so, you need to invest more real money in-game. It's not just that microtransactions are present, it is that the game pushes them so hard that it damages your pleasure of MyCareer, puts obstacles before your access to The Neighborhood, and sees many offline modes losing out.
First, let's lace up our Nikes and mind to the court. The NBA 2K series has always been a half step before FIFA (and a couple ahead of Madden) in relation to sports simulation. After trimming up defense this past year, taking home the crown as the best sports sim on the market should have been an easy alley-oop to get NBA 2K21. It feels like they've missed the dunk but put in the rebound. The departure, running, and defensive work is as clean as quick as it had been last year, but this improvement has attracted in stick shooting along with the customary button drama, in addition to changing the way the shooting meter both looks and works.
With this change includes a new dribbling system, that definitely offers greater control and feels more fluid. However, if you've tried shooting in the demonstration or on the launching day of NBA 2K21, you'll know they've massively overcooked the difficulty. Dame Lillard was missing open jump shots once the aim was yellowish; in 2K's aiming system, yellow means'very close but not perfect. The stick still requires getting used to, but the punishment for getting yellows isn't too severe unless you are boxed out, not in a hot zone, or using a player with bad shooting stats.
The matches themselves, filled with sponsorships from Gatorade, Mobil, and a lot more, can occasionally lean too far towards a Cheap MT 2K21 demonstration of a live game on TV than real play, but once you've got the rock on your hands, which fades away.
