There’s truth in NBA 2K20’s story this year. When a college teammate goes down with an ACL tear and loses his sports scholarship, protagonist Che protests. “All this talk about family, but we’re really just entertainment,” he says, in backlash to the exploitative NCAA business model. If there’s a wonder why NBA 2K20 doesn’t feature… Continue reading NBA 2K20 (PS4)
Thirty teams make up the current NBA. At the start of NBA Playgrounds 2, around eight of them offer players. The rest come from packs of virtual cards; it’s luck of the draw. In total, 400 players await unlocking in NBA Playgrounds 2. Five at a time. An hour of play will unlock the highest… Continue reading NBA Playgrounds 2 (PS4)
The NBA employs 491 players. That’s it. Reality for most isn’t having the impact of a LeBron James or even that of an unknown, 11th man bencher. Rather, it’s not being any of those things and quitting the dream. To that point, NBA 2K19 gets it. This year’s created star is A.I., entering the draft… Continue reading NBA 2K19 (PS4)
NBA Playgrounds is not NBA Jam. It’s like NBA Jam insofar as Playgrounds offers a two-on-two, rules free (mostly) basketball romp. But it’s not NBA Jam, even if 968,000 Google results for “NBA Jam Playgrounds” plead otherwise. The 1993 NBA of NBA Jam is not the 2017 NBA. Midway’s basketball icon came into existence with… Continue reading NBA Playgrounds (Xbox One)
