NBA 2K23

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No score yet - based on 2 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Digital Chumps
    Sep 20, 2022
    87
    Regardless of which mode you play, you can expect to an intricately deep and rich simulation experience of NBA basketball for the given era that you’re playing in. Visual Concepts have the passion, the funding, the skills, and the time, year to year, to push their product to new levels of detail and depth. The differences in the raw gameplay aren’t massive this year, but they didn’t need to be. However, the Jordan Challenge and the Eras modes make this an especially standout release in this long-running series. Frankly, I don’t find any fault with VC and 2K are doing other than the push for microtransactions, it just feels slimey; call me old school, I guess. Still, if you’re looking for your NBA videogame fix, you can’t go wrong with NBA 2K23. Lace’em up.
  2. Hey Poor Player
    Dec 31, 2022
    60
    Perhaps it’s time I stopped rewarding 2K every year for simply putting out another game. While I still have fun with the same modes I’ve been playing for twenty years, I don’t need a new version of this game to do so, and neither do you. The core gameplay is still very good, albeit stuck several years in the past, but everything around it is awful. The modes I still enjoy feel like they’re buried further in the menus every year. It feels like the only way to enjoy NBA 2K23 in a nonexploitive way is to avoid all the parts of it that its creators want you to play. I don’t see this strange dynamic ending soon, so players will continue to have to decide if being the only basketball game around is enough reason to pick it up each year.
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  1. Kotaku
    Sep 19, 2022
    If you’re happy with the shakedown, or are happy paying full price for the half a game that’s unaffected, then by all means keep buying it. But if you’re tired of this game’s preoccupation with hustling you, and you want something to change, you’re going to need to stop buying it, and you’re going to need lots of other people to stop buying it along with you.

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2.5

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 31
  3. Negative: 22 out of 31
  1. coywow
    Sep 17, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Bringing back the jordan challenge and improving the game for MyLeague fans is a step in the right direction, but this game is still just a glorified roster update for MyCareer players. NBA 2K is an infamous cash cow, you start by paying $70 for the same game every year, play for a little bit, and then realize that for your MyCareer MyPlayer to be any good you have to sink another $50-$100 into VC.
    spending this much money on microtransactions is something typically exclusive to free to play pay to win games, but 2k pulls you in for 2-3 hours ( voiding your oppurtunity to refund the game ) and then hits you with the actual out of the storyline gameplay where you need to pay real money to have any fun.
    TLDR: **** expensive remaster of the last 4 games.    … Full Review »
  2. prakken
    Sep 9, 2023
    0
    nothing has changed, it's still a game for degenerate basketball players, it's still pay to win, it's still a donation masturbation, nothingnothing has changed, it's still a game for degenerate basketball players, it's still pay to win, it's still a donation masturbation, nothing has changed since 2017, and you still pay full price for this castrated game, which is without donation anyway not a game. those NBA players who say “everyone has their own tastes”, “you just don’t know how to play”, “if you don’t like it, don’t play” those degenerates with a chock’s inteoject… Full Review »
  3. apokalipto
    Sep 2, 2023
    9
    Very good game. I enjoyed playing this game a lot. I strongly recommend this.
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