![]() ![]() The MyStaff system lets players hire team members to better fit their organization to their playstyle The four departments that need to be staffed are the Front Office, Coaching, Scouting, and Sports Medicine departments, with each offering different attributes that affect the team. The biggest addition to the MyNBA mode is the MyStaff system, which allows players to build out their entire front office staff, with four departments and a cap of 17 staff members. Detailed in a blog post, the new features include the MyStaff system, a more in-depth training system, and three new pre-built teams to add to the league. The gameplay and visuals are still great a lot of the time, just like every year – but the balancing and grind-hungry, money-seeking M圜areer mode has really gone downhill for casual players despite the bigger online area.New features for NBA 2K22's MyNBA mode have been announced for Xbox Series X|S and PS5. Verdict: Only die-hard fans need apply, the rest should rather play a previous, cheaper entry. At the wrong times though, especially in career, it can look like a game from last-generation during some of the cutscenes. I won’t say that it impressed me quite as much as the trailers suggested it would when they showed some shots of what looked like real life NBA footage, but NBA 2K games have always been really good looking and this one is probably still one of the better looking games available at the right times. I also still don’t like that early in your career you are supposed to be the next big thing, but unless my timing is literally perfect, my incredible player can’t sink basic shots that a high schooler could manage. Leave a shooter unguarded? Yeah, they’re sinking that 3-pointer it doesn’t matter if they’re the janitor. You still get punished way too heavily every time you aren’t perfect, and it’s not great for newcomers or players returning to play the franchise every now and then. My only major gripes continue to plague me year after year, and this year’s still the same story. The gameplay is still pretty much the same, which is to say that it’s still REALLY good. Nothing makes you feel quite as special as having an NPC tell you that you’re the hottest property, when you’re standing in a large crowd of other online players who are mostly dressed the same as you (especially early on when everyone has just started). What’s worse is that the online suburb is now a bigger city area, but it’s clunky and filled with tons of real online players who are all “the greatest player on the block”. ![]() Like REALLY lazy.Īn early cutscene right after I had picked my career progression had me in a cutscene with my team, and two different sets of players were using the same head, even though they were different-sized, completely different players. The creation of this game is incredibly low-quality and lazy in places though. Why? Well, like we’ve also complained about in the past, it feels like they want you in the world and grinding as quick as possible because that’s the best way to get you to start spending more real world money on the game. Last year’s M圜areer mode still had some A-listers and a crack at a story, but this NBA 2K22 feels like they’ve all but tossed that out to just get you into the online world as soon as possible. I’ve complained in the past that while NBA 2K games originally set the bar for career story modes (with the original and best even being direct by Spike Lee) they’ve been very up and down ( the next year was a little better again) since, with a severe decline in effort and quality in some years, although the year after was a little better again. The trailers blew me away with their realism and detail, and when I finally had it in front of me, the results were… well, up and down but more up than down. It’s time for another NBA 2K game, but the big difference (at least for me) this time around is that this is the first “next-gen” NBA 2K game that I’ve laid my hands and eyes on. NBA 2K22 Review (Quick Look) – Platforms: Reviewed on Xbox Series X | We checked it out for: < 10 hours | For people who like: NBA 2K
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