![]() Once again, VC is hard to come by, and you need to be ready to put in some serious hours if you want your player to have a rating like Kevin Durant or Luka Doncic. Badge Loadouts made it easy to do that on the fly.Īfter you finish creating your player and jump into the basketball action, it’s a grind to earn VC (virtual currency) and raise your attributes. With Pro-Am, The Rec, and Park games all playing quite differently from the NBA, most players will want to approach each one with different sets of badges. It’s a feature that saves an endless amount of time and one that I was relieved to see when upgrading my player. NBA 2K22 adds Badge Loadouts, where players can create presets of badges and swap between them as they please. The new badges in 2K22 are a welcome addition to what is a very thorough character customization process. There’s also some new badges, such as Limitless Takeoff, which extends the range in which a player can begin their jump for a layup or dunk, as well as Chef, which gives a boost to 3-point shots taken off the dribble. There are a ton of badges in NBA 2K22, and a lot of strategy goes into deciding which ones you want to prioritize and pursue. The Ankle Breaker badge makes it easier to break down defenders, while the Lob City Finisher badge increases a player’s ability to catch and finish alley-oops. Badges are separate abilities that give players boosts in certain aspects of gameplay. The distribution of these stats will also determine what badges players can unlock. My pass accuracy rating started in the 60s, but had a high ceiling. For example, I made a point guard, and spent a large chunk of points setting my max pass accuracy stat to 92. The points allotted will determine the maximum attribute that a player can achieve in that category. When creating your character, the game allots you a limited number of points to distribute among your stats, such as 3-point shooting, ball handling, rebounding, etc. Players once again create their own NBA star, and are given the option to fully customize their appearance, attributes, and play style. M圜areer is one of the marquee game modes in the NBA 2K series, and makes its return in the new installment. It’s starting to feel like something that changes every year just for the sake of being new, rather than an actual improvement to the shooting process. ![]() NBA 2K22 once again changes the shot meter, and I can’t say I was a fan of its new curved vertical design. Pulling off dribble moves and chaining together animations still feels satisfying, and there’s still an array of different shot types, layups, and dunks. That said, trying to play from outside the paint with a player that doesn’t have elite dribbling skills felt like going against a Defensive Player of the Year candidate. If you’re using a ball-handler like Stephen Curry or Chris Paul, it’s easy to create shots or get past a defensive matchup. Enhanced defensive AI means that players are better with their defensive positioning, and are harder to blow by. That remains true in NBA 2K22, and the developers have made more changes in order to improve the experience. ![]() There’s a lot of quality-of-life perks that come with experiencing the current-gen version of the game.Īs a simulator, the NBA 2K games have long been the best basketball gameplay you’re going to get. The 120 FPS is buttery smooth, and load times are still impressively brief in most instances. I played the game on an Xbox Series X and found it to perform very well. Unfortunately, the PC version of the game is once again the last-gen version, meaning computer players will yet again miss out on all of the new bells and whistles, despite having capable hardware. Features like The City, as well as a slew of different player animations and AI behaviors are only available on the newer systems. The game on the current-generation consoles is quite different from what’s on the PS4 and Xbox One. NBA 2K22 is the second title in the series to launch for the Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles. It’s more or less what fans have come to expect from the series, with some interesting ideas that are pretty hit or miss. In addition to standard basketball gameplay, NBA 2K22 sees the return of franchise staples such as M圜areer, MyTeam, and MyNBA. With the real-life NBA season just around the corner, 2K sports has delivered the latest installation of its basketball simulation franchise with NBA 2K22.
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