![]() ![]() In our pre-order bonus packs, we got a strong team - Kobe, Shaq, Lillard, Williamson, and Ingram - but once we started buying real packs, the quality of players on offer sunk rapidly. The game constantly pulls you towards this we had taken the Trail Blazers to the Finals in MyLeague, our player in M圜areer had just reached the NBA, and we’d done little more than try out the features of MyTeam, and still every time we turned the game on, the menu pulled us towards MyTeam with a ‘Continue Now’ button. One of the game modes is MyTeam, a card-based team-building game where you must buy players, contracts, jerseys, and anything else you can think of, either in blind packs or in individual auctions. "You can’t accuse 2K of neglecting on the court play, but all roads seem to lead back to MyTeam, and the possibility of players spending more real money." Not entirely, and we’ll get to other weaknesses in time, but the beginning and end of a large proportion of NBA 2K21’s issues stem from the microtransactions the game is built around. VC - the virtual currency at the heart of NBA 2K21 - is largely to blame for this. MyTeam works offline, but you miss out on many features.Too much of the game is designed to feed into VC.It’s the Michael Jordan of sports sims, but only if you mean Jordan in The Flu Game. It’s as close to perfect as you can realistically imagine a sports sim can be. Minute to minute, play to play, shot to shot, NBA 2K21 is seamless. The matches themselves, filled with sponsorships from Gatorade, Mobil, and many more, can sometimes lean too much towards a presentation of a live game on TV than actual play, but once you’ve got the rock in your hands, that fades away. The stick still takes getting used to, but the punishment for getting yellows isn’t too severe unless you’re boxed out, not in a hot zone, or using a player with poor shooting stats. It has been patched since then, and shooting is much more natural. Dame Lillard was missing open jump shots when the aim was yellow in 2K’s aiming system, yellow means ‘very close but not perfect’. However, if you’ve tried shooting either in the demo or on launch day of NBA 2K21, you’ll know they’ve massively overcooked the difficulty. With this change comes a new dribbling system, which definitely offers greater control and feels more fluid. It’s not just that microtransactions are present, it’s that the game pushes them so hard that it damages your enjoyment of M圜areer, puts barriers ahead of your access to The Neighborhood, and sees most offline modes losing out. Of course, the game really wants you to do both, but in order to do that, you have to spend more actual money in-game. VC (or Virtual Currency) flows through everything, blocking off some difficulties in the otherwise top class M圜areer mode, and forcing you to choose between either upgrading your M圜areer pro, or improving your MyTeam roster. While button shooting still exists, stick shooting strives to give closer control, and after initially having a punishing difficulty curve, a quickly implemented hotfix makes it run much smoother. This year, some of the irritating out-of-bounds scenarios have been tightened up, but the biggest change is the shooting. Mastering your jump shot timing will go a very long way.The actual basketball in NBA 2K21 is sublime, with the series continuing to make little tweaks and improvements with each installment. These are lovingly called "Green Releases" by the community. In the old NBA 2K games, Excellent releases didn't always go in, but in the modern games, these shots are famed for always dropping in. Finally, if you get the always satisfying "Excellent" release, your shot will drop through the hoop every single time. If you "Very Early" or "Very Late", you'll miss your shot more than likely. If you get "Slightly Late" or "Slightly Early", you can miss or make your shot. You'll a shot release grader on the top of the screen every time you shoot. ![]() ![]() This means that you need to get comfortable with the shots of different players to perfect those shooting skills. As with the console games, different players have their own, unique jump shots. However, in 2K21 Arcade Edition, the signature shot timing feature is available in full force. You might be asking yourself what's the difference between NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition and a game like NBA 2K Mobile? Well, 2K Mobile, the free option (2K21 "can" feel free if you're already on Apple Arcade subscription) is card-based, and also, the game doesn't penalize you much for poor shot timing. It can be a bit confusing when playing different NBA games on mobile. ![]()
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