First, let's NBA 2K21 MT lace our Nikes and mind to the court. The NBA 2K series has always been a half step before FIFA (and a couple ahead of Madden) in relation to raw sports simulation. After trimming up defense last year, taking home the crown as the best sports sim on the market should have been an easy alley-oop to get NBA 2K21. It seems like they've missed the dip but put in the rally. The passing, running, along with defensive work is as clean as fast as it had been last year, but this improvement has attracted in stick shooting along with the usual button play, as well as changing how the shooting meter both looks and works.

With this change comes a new dribbling system, that definitely offers increased control and feels fluid. However, if you have attempted shooting either in the demonstration or on the launch day of NBA 2K21, you will know they have massively overcooked the difficulty. Dame Lillard was overlooking open jump shots once the aim was yellowish; in 2K's aiming system, yellow means'very close but not perfect. It has been patched since then, and shooting is much more natural. The stick still requires getting used to, but the punishment for obtaining yellows isn't too severe unless you're boxed out, not at a hot zone, or using a player with poor shooting stats.

The games themselves, full of sponsorships from Gatorade, Mobil, and many more, can sometimes lean too far towards a presentation of a live game on TV than actual play, but once you've got the stone in your hands, that fades away.

It is still extremely tough to find next-gen consoles for purchase, but a lot of players will be wondering if the update is really worth it. Together with the first week of this new generation in the novels, 2K vets Nick Schwartz and Mike Sykes provided their takes on the next-gen model of 2K21:It's nothing revolutionary... yet. This generational upgrade was always likely to become less of an eye-popper than the one which preceded Buy NBA 2K21 MT Coins (PS3/Xbox 360 into PS4/Xbox One), together with the primary benefits showing up elsewhere, like the removal of loading times.