I will give Visual Concepts credit as The Beach is a far nicer place to both play basketball and explore in general. Unsurprisingly, there haven’t been many major changes to the multiplayer outside of the new neighborhood. This limited effort results in NBA 2K21 falling well short of other sports game narratives such as FIFA‘s The Journey and Madden‘s Face of the Franchise. There is a running theme in these games of detailing the story of how you made it but not what you achieved afterward.
You’ve probably heard that cliché before because it’s a narrative 2K has milked in its NBA 2K franchise.Īlso much like many of its predecessors, NBA 2K21‘s story abruptly ends as soon as you enter the NBA. NBA 2K21‘s story sees you play as Junior, an upcoming draft prospect that has to claw his way from being a low second-round pick up to a lottery option. While this does make NBA 2K less newcomer friendly, these changes were arguably needed if 2K wants people to take its eSports division, the 2K League, seriously. I think these shooting options work well since casual players can stick with the old methods while core players experiment with the higher skill options. This is effectively the old and new methods combined. This involves aiming your shot with the stick once again but also tapping one of your triggers to time your jump shot. The other new method is Visual Concept’s way of trying to make shooting genuinely skillful. This involves pulling down on the stick to shoot and then having to aim your shot by adjusting the right analog stick. Most players looking to try out the new shooting will likely opt for the former. The new methods are the reworked stick shooting and the stick shooting combined with shot timing. It’s a nice option for those looking for more of a challenge. The new shooting challenges you to line up shots rather than time them. The first two return from its predecessor: those being timed shooting and timed shooting without a visible shot meter for a small boost. NBA 2K21 provides players four different shooting methods to pick from. And this time around, I’m happy to say it has gotten things mostly right. At launch, it was completely overpowered and when it was later nerfed, everyone stopped using it.įor the first time since NBA 2K17, Visual Concepts has once again tried to rework shooting. Instead of just having players hold X to time their jump shots, Visual Concepts introduced analog stick shooting. And if my time with NBA 2K21 is anything to go by, don’t expect that to change anytime soon.īack in NBA 2K17, 2K attempted to rework the shooting in order to raise the franchises’ skill ceiling. Perhaps the biggest offender of all is 2K’s long-running basketball series, NBA 2K.
As a result of their short development cycles and limited resources, they very rarely contribute much of note to the industry. Most annually released sports games leave much to be desired.
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