HELLOOOO SPORT ENTHUSIAST GAMERS!!!! IT's TIME FOR ANOTHER BALLER REVIEW!!!
Let's bounce right into it, and discuss the overall feel of the game. From the very minute of opening the game we felt as though we were right there on the court. We personally haven't actually played basketball before, but this made us feel like we have. The graphics were surprisingly very realistic and we utilized the face scanner to create ourselves within the game, how cool is that?! Accuracy to the real thing,

We gotta talk about the elephant on the court here, the disconnect are a serious foul. Every 1 minute the game would end despite me (Omega reviewer #2) having a MASSIVE lead on the opposing player (Omega reviewer #1).

However I (Omega reviewer #1) would have demolished MY opponent (Omega reviewer #2) had the game NOT disconnected as soon as I touched the ball. We will agree to disagree but thats besides the point but let's get back on court.

The gameplay once working is phenomenal. The sounds of the ball really resonate with us, you can hear every slap of the ball and every squeak of the shoe. Sound design is 10/10.

We really felt like MIchael Jordan. 10/10
Overall game. 6/10

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Decent 2k this year, better graphically and gameplay wise then 23 and 24 so for anyone wanting to play just offline modes this is a fantastic basketball sim to pick up

whenever i would go into the city, i would constantly crash. terrible incorporation onto pc. horrible game

Took about an hour to go through shaders and about 30 min to create myPlayer . Only to be bombarded with pay to win features and ads. Tried to refund after the first couple crashes, but had barely hit my 2hr limit. So I guess Im stuck with this turd.
Game is full of child friendly gambling and micro-transactions. Performance wise its laggy whenever you're in the over world and then crashes/freezes while playing actual basketball games.

i cant make lebron naked

There is no point to career mode if they going to delete it after 2 years

Next gen, but poorly optimized.

I've been buying NBA 2K games since the ESPN days, on and off, purely for offline play. I was so happy to see PC was getting next-gen for the mods and the roster editing community's potential.

Sadly, I have to say I don't remember a version of NBA 2K that left game breaking (offline) bugs in for so long. If you play offline, you want your game to feel realistic, but sadly :
- you first have to jump through a hundred hoops to change settings before every single game,
- rotations are still messed up (CPU putting G-league guys on the bench instead of better players),
- defensive matchups are still busted after each timeout which makes it hell to sort out 10x a game since you can't disable CPU timeouts.
It's just a mess when you actually play the games which should be the essence of the game, right ?

This isn't even starting to get into the MyNBA Eras problems such as player progression (I'd actually found settings to work around those), draft class attributes randomly changing.

I've given them a couple of months but I just can't recommend getting this game at the moment, even at half price if they discount it.

not more than an "okayish" game - but unfortunately there are no alternatives. in my opinion the game has two major problems: control feels too laggy and its pay to win in almost every game mode.

we already know this in-game purchase illness from other sports games but why does that have to be this extrem? it's really absurd - even in the single player part of my career you have to pay for everything... yes, you can earn VC (the in-game currency) by just playing - you get probably around 1.000 per game. and for most challenges you maybe get another 500-1000 from time to time. to put this into perspective: i generaly boycott every in game purchases if its not a free2play game so i earned the VC only by playing. i played for around 10h my career and my player now has a overall stat of 62 - you start with 60! and the higher your level gets, the more VC it takes for upgrading... so it literally takes an eternity to level up without in-game purchases. also cosmetics are way too expensive. e.g.: one tattoo is around 6.000 VC. thats a really bad joke for a full price basketball game.

people should learn to boycott in-game purchases so developers/publishers stop doing this

I've only been playing quick matches. I have a 4090. The players look amazing. The physics are amazing. The detail to the basketball net is crazy. The fluid motion of each player is great. I would like to win more, but that's a seperate issue. The game is fun with the new dribbling. The mechanics are great. I really like this game. It has crashed a few times, but I'm not sure if that's because of my PC. I would like to have blacktop with the wnba players. There should either be a seperate game for the wnba or just be fair. Give the same features to the wnba. Please. Thanks. Great game though