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Everything adds up NBA 2K21 MT to the top sports gambling hit of 2020. Need a sports match in your own next-gen console? This is it. Though Jordan was actually suffering from food poisoning, the game became famous in the annals of basketball as'The Flu Game. NBA 2K21 feels very much like The Flu Sport. It is most brilliant, but wherever it's not, it's an absolute mess. It's not influenza or food poisoning that is making NBA 2K21 sick however; it's VC. This year, some of the irritating out-of-bounds scenarios have been tightened up, but the largest change is the shooting. While button shooting still exists, stick shooting attempts to give nearer control, and after originally with a punishing difficulty curve, a quickly implemented hotfix makes it run much simpler. On the court, you could not ask for more.
Away from the court, it is another story. VC (or Virtual Money ) flows through everything, blocking off a few difficulties from the otherwise top class MyCareer mode, and forcing you to choose between either updating your MyCareer pro or improving your MyTeam roster. Of course, the game actually wants you to do both, but to do so, you have to invest more real money in-game. It's not just that microtransactions are found, it's the game pushes them hard it damages your enjoyment of MyCareer, puts barriers ahead of your access to The Neighborhood, and sees many offline modes losing out.
First, let's lace our Nikes and mind to the court. The NBA 2K series has always been a half step before FIFA (and a couple before Madden) in terms of raw sports simulation. After tightening up defense this past year, taking home the crown as the top sports sim on the market should have been a simple alley-oop for NBA 2K21. It seems as though they have missed the dunk but put in the rebound. The departure, running, and defensive function is as clean and as quick as it was last year, but this improvement has brought in stick Cheap MT 2K21 shooting alongside the usual button drama, as well as changing the way the shooting meter both works and looks.