NBA 2K19 is the best basketball game available

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NBA 2K19 is the best basketball game available

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When you start NBA 2K19’s MyCareer mode, your stats are so low it feels like your player can barely make a basket. Match those newbies against skilled online opponents with objectively better stats, and you feel immediately forced to spend money. It’s a concept that feels designed to make you lose in ways that are only slightly tolerable in the free-to-play mobile market. Make no mistake about it: NBA 2K19 is pay-to-win, and casual fans will feel gross after interacting with it for too long.

Even with its shortcomings NBA 2K19 is the best basketball game available. The changes over the previous year aren't extraordinary but they're sizable enough that the game is well worth a pick-up. For the twentieth anniversary, NBA 2K19 could've done something more like add in a completely new mode or some significant changes to MyCareer but that's not really a failing. It's more of a missed opportunity.

But of course, NBA 2K19 is not a perfect game. There's a couple of things we noticed which we hope will be fixed with updates and patches. The first on our list is the extremely harsh teammate grading system in MyCareer. The smallest of mistakes, such as a bad block attempt, will drop your grade significantly. While we don't mind a challenge in getting your teammate grade all the way to A, the penalty right now for minor errors is much too steep, and could be cut by 30% if not more. Buy NBA 2K19 MT Coins from Mmocs.com with the cheapest price and fast delivery.

As the established franchise, which has maximized its potential and, by many standards, perfected its game, it can be prone to gamer fatigue, with players looking for fresher mechanics and a new experience. At the very least, there is an alternative in Live 19, offering a different feel, in spite of imperfections.

Like the franchise itself, 2K's gameplay feels like the obvious culmination of the series' trajectory. Archetypes help each individual player feel like themselves and the more passionate the fan, the bigger advantage users will have in areas such as rebounding, stealing and the superb Takeover mechanics. It's a rewarding timesink to improve on the controller, which isn't something many games can say and a nice feather in the cap for a team tasked with dropping annual releases.

As for those who picked up NBA 2K18 earlier, getting the sequel isn’t as easy a call to make. But NBA 2K19 sure does make a solid case for it, especially with improved graphics and gameplay. The addition of multiplayer and Story and Challenge modes should also stretch the game’s lifespan post-launch. Bugs and quirks (that could be patched away) aside, no other game on the App Store provides the kind of organized basketball play this series has almost perfected over the years.
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