Williams (Omar from The Wire) is just shady enough as a streetwise mentor to make an endgame choice - one the game even forced me to reconsider! - both reasonable and personally regrettable.īut the shame is that even in its best and most distinctive offerings, NBA 2K21 is too similar to NBA 2K20 for me to give my recommendation much supporting material beyond a gut feeling, a kind of “yeah, it’s fun go play it” mood. Given every chance to be a preening overdog, newcomer Vince Washington turns the character Hendrixx Cobb into a warm, believable friend instead. That means some kind of personal journey or transformation for the star, and supporting characters with some depth and likability. My recommendation isn’t much more than a ‘go play it it’s fun’ gut feeling
NBA 2K21, with The Long Shadow, gets what other sports games largely haven’t in their experiments with narrative modes: I don’t just need a backstory I can believe, but also one I’m proud to carry forward. The studio’s gifts for flair get a great showcase with The Long Shadow.Įarnest performances, from Jesse Williams ( Grey’s Anatomy) as the deceased dad casting said shadow, and the clean, show-don’t-tell writing and dialogue elevate a basic-as-bread story into a good popcorn movie. Let’s start with the virtue, which is that Visual Concepts’ production values and obvious commitment to each annual game as an artistic proposition can make the endless purgatory of sports video games - it’s really good, just like last year! - feel fresh and worth exploring. Real-life college teams are back in The Long Shadow, the story mode introducing players to “Junior,” an up-and-comer with a legacy to live up to. That’s the virtue and the shame of it all. Oh, don’t get me wrong: NBA 2K 21 will still gobble up hours of my time, just like last year’s game. NBA 2K21 doesn’t give me a better reason to spend my virtual paper there, either. Or maybe until I went over to MyTeam, the card-collection/fantasy sports mode tied into the currency system that also builds up a M圜areer run. There is also a new story mode with a new storyline, in which we create our player again and guide his actions from high school, through college, to NBA.I re-created my NBA 2K20 player’s look in NBA 2K21 with ease, making this year’s story mode look like a direct sequel, albeit one where my guy has gone back to college to work his way up from nothing … again.įor some reason, this still worked for me - until I pulled back into M圜areer, the mode which The Long Shadow, part narrative, part onboarding, gets new players fired up to play. In addition to the ability to play games in the standard season (also in the women's league), we can also play the role of the general manager of the selected team and influence, among others, the relationship with players, training and contracts.
In game we once again have the opportunity to test ourselves in the already known game modes. NBA 2K21 allows you to play alone or in multiplayer mde on a shared screen or over the Internet. However, we will not see changes in the number of modes available. The devs also tried to shorten loading times.
The main novelty in this year's edition are improved possibilities of using the right analog knob, as well as changes in aiming during jump throws. Therefore, we will find real players and teams in the game. The game is based on an American-Canadian NBA license. The game allows to play basketball matches in which the behaviour of players on the court is faithfully reproduced. NBA 2K21 does not make significant changes to the gameplay mechanics. As with previous parts of the series, Visual Concepts is responsible for game development.
NBA 2K21 is the next installment in a series of basketball games launched in 2002.
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