My Team: One of last year's big additions, My Team returns with a glut of improvements across the board.Developers have also gone all-in on improving the artificial intelligence of your My Career player's teammates this year players understand spacing and what you're doing on the floor far better than ever before. You begin as a rookie and attempt to establish your mark in the league, with the difficulty of said establishment depending on your circumstances. For those who played NBA 2K13, the mode will largely feel familiar. My Career: Want to create an individual legacy all to your own? Well, My Career is back and has you covered.Will he play out the rest of his career with the Miami Heat? Or take his talents to the Big Apple, or even back to Cleveland? The choice, and all of the interesting RPG-like consequences that come with it, are yours. Path to Greatness Mode: If you're going to start out on something other than Association mode, why not go with the new kid on the block? In "Path to Greatness," you take over the career of NBA 2K14 cover athlete and executive producer LeBron James and attempt to carve out a narrative for the remainder of his career.But if you want to delay gratification and avoid starting up the game's most-played mode-or if you just want to get your in-game bearings down before beginning-I'd suggest going through the remainder of the modes in this order: OK, so maybe you're more patient than others and can wait on Association. In the words cultural auteur Robin Thicke, you know you want it. (Goodbye, Drake fantasies.) Get your first dud Association out of the way early, learn the tricks of the trade within this year's mode and prepare yourself for when you're finally ready to give it a long-term go. Plus, I mean, what are the odds you actually stick with your first Association, anyway? Odds are you end up hating your team from the moment DeMar DeRozan has his first 2-of-14 game from the field. The temptation of playing one of the deepest modes in all of sports gaming is always too great to pass up. There's no use in waiting-mainly because no one can ever wait until opening night. If you want to play Association, dive right in from the moment you open the game, make yourself a Hot Pocket and down a refreshing beverage. Anything to delay the inevitable beginning of an Association just to get the nearest representation of the 2013-14 NBA season possible.ĭo yourself a favor this year: don't wait. The overall rating is based on a theoretical scale of 0-100 (though this year's worst-rated player is Jason Collins at 50 and the best is LeBron James at 99), and represents something of a benchmark of where a player stands around the league.įans employ any number of coping mechanisms. When it comes to arguing player ratings, an overwhelming majority of the conversation surrounds a player's "overall" rating. Every year, with each major release, there is much hand-wringing about how a certain developer did in representing the reality of the league they are attempting to recreate-or at least the "reality" the person arguing their point lives in. Three things that sports fans will never stop arguing about: Tim Tebow, performance-enhancing drugs and sports video games ratings. Remember, (Overall) Ratings Ain't Nothin' But a Number With that in mind, here are a couple pieces of advice on what to do as soon as you pop your disc into the console. That's aligned exactly with last year's release, NBA 2K13, which was for my money the best basketball sim ever created. Metacritic, which cobbles top reviewers to create a normalized score on a 1-100 scale, currently has NBA 2K14 with a score of 88. Luckily, early reviews are A-OK on the current-gen console. And knowing the fickleness of the average sports gamer, anything less than near-perfection won't be good enough.
In other words, it's up to the 2K Sports developers to create not just one great iteration this year but two.
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This Tuesday's release only applies to current-gen systems, the Xbox 360 and PS3. The Xbox One and PS4 gaming consoles will release this November-"conveniently" timed around the beginning of the holiday shopping season-and with it will come another iteration of NBA 2K14. Much like all sports video games releasing around this time, NBA 2K14 also represents a hugely important release for 2K Sports.
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