One of the major differences is that 2K19 doesn’t hold your hand anywhere near as much as the NBA Live games do. My time spent playing a few hours of 2K19 felt extremely intuitive as someone who doesn’t have much experience with basketball games. Signature size-ups and signature triple threat styles alongside the improved shooting mechanics should give higher skilled players a chance to stand out.Īs I mentioned previously, I’ve only played the NBA Live games which are known for being easier compared to the 2K series. With new dribbling and shooting mechanics, the gap between experts and beginners should be noticeably larger this year. So if you happen to be particularly talented at dunking on your friends, prepare for some incoming salt. However, in NBA 2K19, the focus appears to have shifted from depending on the skills of just the players to balancing far more on the skills of the user. It was possible to get by, as long as your team had those high stats listed next to their name. In previous NBA 2K games, user skill was certainly important but was not necessarily an essential component needed to do well. With high reward comes an equally high risk though, as you can mess up the takeover and lose it entirely. If you’re patient enough to save your personal takeover, you can also build bar for a team takeover, which, if you can pull it off, could activate every player on your team.
Each of the archetypes has also been balanced to ensure that each one has a solid counter. This isn’t to say that a player suddenly becomes ridiculously overpowered, from what 2K have divulged, it simply means that players will be momentarily better at things that you would expect them to be good at. For example, if a defender activates their takeover, they may be able to stop opponents stealing the ball away from them. Activating a takeover enables a player to become superpowered for a short period of time. This time around, the Takeover System introduces seven combinations of archetypes, giving players more options while playing. Despite the existing player archetypes, the majority of players arguably still felt quite similar in NBA 2K18. One of the newest features to look forward to is the Takeover System. This year, players can expect major changes to the Takeover System, an overhaul of the AI and a whole lot more which I’ll be covering in this preview. Marking the twentieth instalment in the series, NBA 2K19 once again brings us slightly closer, while also tweaking and introducing a tonne of extra content. Releasing every year for the past two decades, the NBA 2K franchise has continuously chipped away at bringing a basketball simulation closer to the real thing. One of the best things to happen to basketball games overall is the rise of 2K Games/2K Sports.
Basketball games are no longer feature players literally being set on fire when they are doing well as they are much more realistic. As you can imagine, a lot has changed since NBA Jam. Aside from the odd sessions of EA NBA Live games on EA Access, I haven’t spent a lot of time playing basketball games ever since the days of NBA Jam on the Sega Mega Drive. Believe it or not, despite being named after Michael Jordan himself, I can’t say I am a huge basketball fan.
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