Outside of my issues with the story portion of M圜areer, I have very few complaints. Still, I really feel like the story should have been separated from the M圜areer mode, and ideally if developer Visual Concepts toys around with a story like this next year, that’s something they would consider.
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It still takes a while to earn the VC necessary to upgrade your character to a level that puts him on par with his teammates, but at least with the second season you start to feel like you’re making some progress. Once they do, M圜areer opens up into a pretty competent career mode, complete with endorsements, side activities, and practices to engage in during off days. Granted, you can skip through the cutscenes, but it can still take a while before the training wheels come completely off. You don’t start earning the virtual currency required to upgrade your stats until your second year, so you can’t really improve your player for a number of hours. When you get drafted out of College, pretty much every other player picked has a stat rank of 75 or more, which really impacts your ability to perform in that rookie season.
This remains unchanged throughout the 3 High School games, 4 College Games, and 9 or so NBA games you have to play to finish the story. Starting out, your begin with a player skill level of 55. The story also kills your progress until it’s finished. There’s a story ending monologue that’s particularly overwrought and hamfisted, which leaves a poor lasting impression of the story at the end. The voice acting is really solid here, but the general plot is not very intriguing, and some of the cutscenes can be pretty lengthy. It unfortunately delves into well-worn territory with any sports related tale, with concerns of people taking advantage of you, leeching off of your newfound fame and wealth. The story focuses on your support system primarily, including your immediate family, childhood friend, and girlfriend. After creating your player, you move up the ranks from High School, to College, and finally to your rookie year in the NBA. The story itself isn’t particularly interesting, in fact, it feels surprisingly basic. That said, while I appreciate the effort, I think the story bits really interfere with the standard career mode in unfortunate ways. Fans of Spike Lee will certainly realize the man is no stranger to basketball, so this would appear to be a pairing that actually makes some sense. M圜areer sports a story-driven overhaul this year directed by none other than Spike Lee (the game is even referred to as a “Spike Lee Joint”). So no matter how you like to play video game basketball, there’s a good chance that NBA 2K16 has you covered this year.īut again, not everything is perfect. I’ve spent a large amount of my time with M圜areer and MyTeam specifically, but for those that enjoy the General Manager experience you’ve got MyGM, you have online options with MyPark, along with some standard Exhibition modes both online and off. From the create-a-player M圜areer mode, to the new 2K Pro-Am, you won’t be running out of stuff to do any time soon.
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There are a few pratfalls in the release this year, but by and large if you’re looking for a challenging, fun NBA experience both offline and on, you’ll likely want to check out NBA 2K16.
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It improves upon a solid foundation laid by the previous game, while really upping that sim experience that the series is known for. NBA 2K16 is easily one of the best basketball games I’ve played in quite some time.
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