NBA 2K23

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  • Summary: NBA 2K23 features a completely rebuilt version of NBA 2K11's Jordan Challenges that had players trying to virtually recreate Jordan's real-life feats. One of these was a challenge to score at least 38 points and grab 7+ rebounds like Jordan himself did in June 1997 during his memorable "fluNBA 2K23 features a completely rebuilt version of NBA 2K11's Jordan Challenges that had players trying to virtually recreate Jordan's real-life feats. One of these was a challenge to score at least 38 points and grab 7+ rebounds like Jordan himself did in June 1997 during his memorable "flu game" when a sick Jordan still put up big numbers and drained the winning basket in the NBA Finals. [GameSpot]… Expand

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  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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  1. Positive: 4 out of 19
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  3. Negative: 15 out of 19
  1. apokalipto
    Sep 2, 2023
    9
    Very good game. I enjoyed playing this game a lot. I strongly recommend this.
  2. ErayTellezi
    Apr 29, 2023
    8
    Önceki Nba'lere göre şut atmak epey zorlaşmış. Ama bunun yanında pota altından sayı bulmak çok daha kolay.
  4. Lymnos
    Jul 26, 2023
    4
    classic 2k as gameplay. Game makers still can't make a good anti cheat, this is really annoying. We try to strengthen a good player or get vcclassic 2k as gameplay. Game makers still can't make a good anti cheat, this is really annoying. We try to strengthen a good player or get vc but when cheating comes and ruins your match, all your hard work goes to waste.… Expand
  5. Jelliol
    Sep 13, 2022
    0
    Some minor modifications of gameplay around shooting and diving to the rim. More arcade feeling in a simulation... Eeeeerk.
    And bad point for    Some minor modifications of gameplay around shooting and diving to the rim. More arcade feeling in a simulation... Eeeeerk.
    And bad point for an old gen version for graphic engine and without major improvement "MyNBA Era" available on consoles. PC gamers are not Next Gen gamers. Nice to notice that spit in our face.
    Avoid this version, which in this state is just a roster update.    … Expand
  6. henrytakes2
    Dec 28, 2022
    0
    I made the mistake of buying this game on sale. This game is horrible. It's basicaly pay to win with extra steps. The hole game is like aI made the mistake of buying this game on sale. This game is horrible. It's basicaly pay to win with extra steps. The hole game is like a micro transactions based slot machine. You need to buy VC to upgrade your player that starts with the ability of a 12 years old basketball rookie. They make sure you can't earn too much VC quickly with gameplay, if you do you get perma banned. This is to make sure you buy VC with real money.

    Every year they release a new nba2k, same as the old year. They make you pay for the whole game for an update.    … Expand
  7. 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… Expand
  8. JasonBijorn
    May 21, 2023
    0
    This game is somehow worse than both 2k21 and 2k22 combined. Starting with the fact that the game still has the same bug that has been in allThis game is somehow worse than both 2k21 and 2k22 combined. Starting with the fact that the game still has the same bug that has been in all three, which locks the ability to sim forward in MyCareer games to the frame rate. Beyond that, The game makes the absolutely moronic decision to lock all animations to stats and limit you to a slow and ineffective jump-shot, in what I can think, is an attempt to force more micro-transactions. The only reason I bought this game was because it was on sale, and it only took one day to realize the reason why it was on sale. The fact that they keep giving you all the exact same game made worse through unnecessary changes for the sole attempt to feign progression. This was the last straw for me, 2K is irredeemable in my eyes, They are an old animal that slowly walking to its death, only being held alive by its dwindling group of fanatics. In summary, This game is yet another step backward for NBA 2K putting it one step closer to its inevitable grave.… Expand

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