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This is the worst 2K game I’ve ever played. The current-gen version on Steam is a joke, especially for the price—this isn’t 2K19. The game is full of players with level 40 and 99 overall ratings, making it practically unplayable against them. Consider buying 2K25 if it's on sale, but at full price, it’s not worth it.
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don’t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It’s just gameplay
☑ Meh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☑ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You’ll want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You’ll need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn’t necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You’ll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It’ll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It’s free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it’s on sale
☐ If you have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☑ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ Rating / 10 }---
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After almost 60 hours of gameplay in My Career player mode I couldn't take it anymore. I held it until I couldn't, but there is no other word to describe this game but s**t. I've known 2k since the 2k14 version and have played several of their releases. And I certainly only enjoy playing career mode, but it's impossible here. Your player grows at a snail's pace, and even if you've put in money to increase your skills quickly, it doesn't help at all. I'm not new to playing sports games, I'm not new to 2k either. By the time you want to reach an average of 80, most of the players you know today are already in retirement. Not to mention that your player and not just him, but your whole team sucks. I thought playing at the higher settings I could get my team to do what they are supposed to do, not be so stupid, but it's crazy. It doesn't matter if you go to Dallas, Golden, Lakers, you can play with all the best players on your team, that easily teams from mid-table down can beat you in the game and by a landslide. The rival teams, the machine you're competing with, take the most impossible shots, you'll s**t in your seat. It doesn't matter if they are guarded at 100%. Embid has the speed of a skinny small forward. All the big guys on the teams that the machine controls, make three pointers like they were Curry, and you go and look at their 3s stats and they average 55 or less. All my matches I finish with an A score, but it makes no sense at all when you just watch your team be so stupid. It's super annoying. I understand that they have to add difficulty to the game, but let's see, unless you're a gaming addict, you're not going to stomach this kind of stuff. There are a lot of weird moves too. My last player was a 7'1" center and even then, he couldn't pass and get out of the way of a 6'1" player. It's like they tie up your player and he can't get off. Where in the h** does that make sense? Not to mention the rebounding, no.... This game is a 2/5 for me. The fact that there is no Draft and you pick your own team to play for seems horrible to me as well.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

If you actually want to invest in a basketball game on PC, emulate an old 2K.
2K hasn't properly ported the next-gen 2K (the PS5/Xbox Series X) onto Steam and it's been going to be 4 years since the era started. They also do this for their WWE series as well as they are about to release 2K24 with no intention of making it the proper generation with the new upgrades. There is absolutely zero reason why the old version is being charged for this amount other than pure laziness. It will not surprise me that 2K pulls the plug on selling 2K games on Steam in the future. This is also the first game I will refund in ages from my memory, in fact it could be the first game I have ever refunded if my memory is that horrible.
Genuinely do not buy this game, even when it's on sale. Don't even buy it for a dollar. They don't update the mechanics, photos, graphics, etc. People always meme about how 2K makes the same game every year, but with these ports I legitimately don't see a difference from 2K21 to 2K24 other than the jumpshot meter in terms of gameplay. It is also extremely bland in quality. For example, back in older versions the after basket camera cuts/transitions used to be very cool and bright, but now in this its just a boring black and white auto-generated player image from the game with no color to it. It's unironically just an updated roster every year port in the laziest way possible, and I feel anyway sorry who is willing to pay $60 for this worthless abomination and sorry excuse of a game.
Either pay for a console and pay for the next-gen (which even then I don't think is worth $60 considering how boring the basketball video game genre is now) or emulate a 2K game on a emulator. There's a reason why the reviews are mostly negative and believe me they are accurate. In fact, I take that back. I find it astonishing that people are giving this game a thumbs up. I have no clue how they can even think such a god awful product deserves a rating like that. The 22% has to be trolls, sports video game addict losers, or 2K themselves. There is nothing positive about this product and anyone who thinks there is a singular positive thing that this game provides to society needs to be deported from not only their country but from this planet and sent to Mars. An embarrassment to the Steam Store page and it's the first game where I ever had zero expectations and it still disappointed me.
Fuck 2K.