Gameplay-wise, NBA 2K16 deserves more than a 4/6. But the main feature (MyCareer) suffers from so many flaws, from the awfully embarrassing Spike Lee directed cutscenes to the weird mechanics of this mode (you have to play 48 minutes games to be able to unlock bonuses for your player...), it's like there's two design teams behind the game : the good one who designs the basketball gameplay, and the bad one who tries to wrap it into the most unpleasant experience possible.
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The last NBA 2k game I played before this one was 2k11 and holy shit how things have changed for the better. The game-play is hard and rewarding, and is actually starting to resemble a real basketball game. I found myself actually thinking about my composition of players on the court and running plays to score instead of just playing iso cheese ball with my star player. At it's core, NBA 2k16 is a great basketball game with great basketball mechanics, but 2k seriously has a lot of work to do in improving the outlying game modes that surround that core.
What I liked 1. The game-play is the best of any 2k game, or any basketball game for that matter, that I've ever played (which is kind of expected for the newest year in the series, right?). 2. There are tons of game modes to keep you busy and I spent way more time than I expected on just building up myTeam and trading cards with other people.
What I didn't like 1. Maybe it's just the shitty hotspot I use to connect my PS4 to the internet (funny how I don't have any problems with most other games), but the online lag is atrocious. 2k must have some of the worst servers because it's gotten to the point where the online play is completely unplayable for me. This especially hurts as most of the best content (e.g. myTeam, play now online, myLeague, Blacktop) are all online modes. 2. So what I can't connect to the internet? I can still play the great myGM and myCareer modes, right? Well I could if they weren't unplayable in their own rights. I don't give a shit if a player on my team is mad because he's backup to a guy that literally outperforms him in every aspect of the game. Dealing with situations like these on myGM kill the experience for me, and make it more of a chore than anything. And good-god myCareer was atrocious. The Spike-Lee joint story line is on the most cringe-worthy and painful things I've ever had to experience in a game. I think I'm gonna go crazy if someone ever says the words frequency vibrations ever again.
I recommend this game because at the very basic level, it achieves its ultimate purpose, which is to be a fun basketball game I can casually play on my own or with some friends. YMMV for the online play, but for me, until the servers improve and they make some headway on the outlying game modes, I can't justify spending $60 on the next iteration of the series.
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