![]() ![]() The Long Shadow has a strong cast Djimon Hounsou is earnest and likable as your high school coach. Jesse Williams brings a tough, earnestness to “Duke”, your character’s father. Michael K Williams, Omar from The Wire, is shady but so very easy to root for as your dad’s friend from his playing days and a potential choice to be your agent. At the point you make it to the NBA, The Long Shadow ends and your normal career begins. The voice acting is excellent throughout this fairly simple story as you play at high school, go to college and then get drafted. This can start with “The Long Shadow” – a story in which you play as Junior, the son of a former College star who never made it to the NBA. M圜areer mode sees you able to play out your own career as an NBA player. Apparently, the grind and the push to spend real world currency has been greatly improved over 2K20 here, though I’ve no personal frame of reference. MyTeam is the card drafting mode for NBA 2K21. You start with packs of randomly selected players to draft a team to play online against other players, as well grinding to trade cards to get better ones and therefore improve your team. However, there’s a deep levelling up system and a skills tree to unlock, so there’s a lot of options here for you. You can take control of your chosen NBA team and play multiple seasons, guiding them through the play-offs, resigning players and taking part in the draft. There’s also the MyGM mode if you want to play things from a higher level, though I’ll admit that I tired of the endless meetings with the short cutscenes and conversations with players and staff to bump up their morale. Of course, to get a real feel for NBA 2K21 you need to dive in to one of its many longer modes, giving you multiple options to play across a whole season. ![]() There’s also a very clear difference between the best players, LeBron, Damo and Chris Paul are clearly elite and it shows: they move faster, they perform skills more quickly and they shoot better. I didn’t witness any obvious clipping errors and the players feel physical and solid on the court. Defensive rebounds save your team from defeat and there’s a nice physicality to things. Players get hot streaks and cold streaks, there’s an artistry to getting a good dunk you’ll be tempted to go for the simple lay up but you can also quickly dish the ball to a waiting forward for a 3 pointer from beyond the arc. The lifelike renders are less impressive on some of the WNBA players, but there’s still a lot to be impressed with here.Ĭrucially, NBA 2K21 feels like basketball. ![]() The graphics are outstanding, with largely excellent representations of the major players. There’s a wide array of quick matches, ranging from regular NBA match ups, all-time great line ups, WNBA line ups or even an option to play that day’s actual NBA match, though that mode did not appear active when I was playing – I guess as the play-offs are on and the matches are intermittent.Ī match of basketball has slick presentation, with all the cutaways, interviews and half-time shows you’d expect from American sports, though thankfully with fewer adverts. Once you’ve learned how to play like Damo, it’s time to try and do it for real. It won’t explain to the neonate why you would run the Pick and Roll, though it’s really intuitive to do so! So, it’ll explain that there are several ways to take a jump shot, to post up and to offer a low-post block. If, like me, it’s been a long time since you’ve played a game of NBA 2K then you should start with 2KU which will teach you the basics of control, though it doesn’t tell you the why of it. There’s a lot to unpack here, so let’s get started: NBA 2K21 has a huge suite of game modes to play and ways to customize your experience. ![]()
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