搜尋結果
- NBA 2K21 will be available through Xbox Game Pass from March 4, 2021, on both console and the cloud. Just when you think Game Pass can't get any bigger, Xbox comes along and adds more new titles.
www.thegamer.com/nba-2k21-xbox-game-pass/
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2021年3月3日 · Today, we’re excited to announce that starting on March 4, Xbox Game Pass members can enjoy NBA 2K21 on console and on the cloud with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate! Players new to NBA 2K21 can enjoy a wide variety of new features and game modes, including MyTeam mode, MyCareer mode, and the new-look Neighborhood.
- NBA 2K21 takes it to the rim (but can’t get it in the bucket)
- NBA 2K21 price and release date
- Total court domination
- Show me the money
- Got game
- Verdict
•What is it? The latest officially licensed NBA basketball sim
•Release date? September 4, 2020
•What can I play it on? PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC, and Google Stadia, with PS5 and Xbox Series X coming soon
•Price? Standard edition is $59.99/£49.99/AU$99.95
•Shooting stick is a great addition (post-hotfix)
•On the court play is as strong as ever
•Still presented broadcast style with too many sponsors
First, let’s lace up our Nikes and head to the court. The NBA 2K series has always been a half step ahead of FIFA (and a couple ahead of Madden) in terms of raw sports simulation. After tightening up defence last year, taking home the crown as the best sports sim on the market should have been an easy alley-oop for NBA 2K21. It feels like they’ve missed the dunk but put in the rebound.
The passing, running, and defensive work is as clean and asquick as it was last year, but this addition has brought in stick shooting alongside the usual button play, as well as changing how the shooting meter both looks and works.
With this change comes a new dribbling system, which definitely offers greater control and feels more fluid. 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. Dame Lillard was missing open jump shots when the aim was yellow; in 2K’s aiming system, yellow means ‘very close but not perfect’. It has been patched since then, and shooting is much more natural. 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.
•Too much of the game is designed to feed into VC
•MyTeam works offline, but you miss out on many features
•Packs still offer poor returns
VC - the virtual currency at the heart of NBA 2K21 - is largely to blame for this. 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.
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. The game constantly pulls you towards this; we had taken the Trail Blazers to the Finals in MyLeague, our player in MyCareer 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.
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. You can have a decent time playing some offline 3v3, earning minimal coins, working on your skills, but to really get the most out of MyTeam, you need to play online. That means you need to constantly buy - often with real money, though grinding is possible - new players and packs. 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. VC can be earned for free, but it takes a long time to earn even a single pack which, in this lootbox system, could end up being VC down the drain.
•The best narrative a sport sim can offer
•MyCareer suffers from its links to VC
•The Neighborhood is fun but poorly executed
Narratively, MyCareer remains the best sports narrative experience out there, and is packed with big name stars like Michael K. Williams, Djimon Hounsou, and Jesse Williams. The latter is far too intense at times, but it feels like a real production, tells a compelling story without overdoing the melodrama, and offers some satisfying story beats. It’s a bit too scripted in places, but that’s a minor criticism in a sports drama.
Despite how good it is though, the lack of a full range of difficulty needlessly gatekeeps newcomers out of what should be a welcoming mode, and it can’t shake the feeling of being an elaborate maze designed to lead you back to MyTeam, with that Playoffs winning 3-pointer worth nothing more than a few coins towards the next pack.
MyCareer is also home to The Neighborhood, a returning online game mode built around street ball and creativity. Offline, you can recapture some of this feeling in The Park, but it isn’t quite the same. The Neighborhood is decent game mode itself, but it has too many drawbacks to really warrant praise. For one, you can only access through MyCareer with your pro, which again brings in the issue of where to spend VC. It also can’t be accessed until you reach the NBA, which means either skipping over by far the most interesting and personal part of the narrative mode’s story, or playing through more slowly and not getting to access arguably the most fun online mode until you’re several hours into a story which barely connects to the The Neighborhood in the first place.
NBA 2K21 is not a three and a half star game. It’s a five star game and a two star game crammed together. The basketball is near perfect, especially with the shooting difficulty now smoothed out, and remains top of the sports sim tree. But every other design choice is either there to get you to spend more money on MyTeam or just a straight up bad design.
There is a great basketball game here, with near flawless gameplay and a compelling narrative. But it’s bogged down by its obsession with VC, strange implementation of its most creative modes, and - once you discount things you have to pay extra for to truly enjoy - lacking in some key features. Even with the shooting difficulty smoothed out, while this is a fantastic accumulation of the NBA 2K series for long time fans, newcomers are blocked out of too many game modes, making the game too unwelcoming to be great.
•Check out our Madden NFL 21 review
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2021年3月3日 · NBA 2K21 will be available through Xbox Game Pass from March 4, 2021, on both console and the cloud. Just when you think Game Pass can't get any bigger, Xbox comes along and adds more new titles. Or entire subscription services like it did when it welcomed EA Play under the Game Pass umbrella last year.
