He played for your dad in AAU ball and you grew up together before he moved away, and you get to play him in a high school tournament (where he’s the top recruit) and later in college. Your rival/friend is a kid named Hendrixx Cobb, who the announce team will inform you dubbed himself “The Experience” (get it, cause he’s named for Jimi Hendrixx). You get a love interest this year in college, but it’s actually handled reasonably well and is just a brief sidestory in your college career before she leaves to play soccer for the Canadian international team. Beware, though, that if you get too aggressive skipping through cut scenes, you might end up accidentally committing to the school on the top of the list of offers. You help bring your high school back to prominence (and get a minor injury in the process you get to decide whether to play through or not), and eventually pick your college. The basic gist of your pre-NBA story is this: Your name is Junior, the son of a New Jersey high school legend who switches from football to basketball your senior year in honor of him after he passes away. Beyond that, this year’s career mode seems to feature fewer cut scenes - but have no fear, they’re still there for whoever is really into seeing Jesse Williams play your dad in flashbacks - that are still easy to breeze through, as you are not beholden to watching them and can skip through at your leisure.

The more traditional path makes for a pretty enjoyable buildup to your NBA career. It’s a far cry from the days of being a DJ-turned-streetballer who gets an invite to play in the NBA. You start in high school as the son of a legend in the area, playing your way through a brief high school season before heading off to one of 10 college programs, playing a season there, boosting your draft stock, and entering the NBA Draft.

Much like last year, the M圜areer mode in NBA 2K21 takes you down a far more traditional path to the NBA than some previous versions of the game. We’ll have more on the online play and other modes later as we continue getting more time with the game in our hands, but here we’re going to review M圜areer mode and this year’s story arc. That has eased the difficulty for those playing in their M圜areer and playing on All-Star difficulty and below, but online gameplay still sees some horrendous shooting numbers as everyone adjusts to the new shot stick and a much more demanding shot bar. NBA 2K21 has been out for just under a week and much of the talk in the 2K community has been around frustration with the shooting mechanics, which were so difficult they put out a hotfix two days after launch.

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