![]() ![]() ![]() There are now games of dodgeball and trampoline-based dunking to help pass the time between matches, as well as the ability to buy a skateboard or scooter to help you get around its interactive hub with a little more speed. You can even squad up with other players you meet by pressing in the right analog stick. There are now far more courts to access, so you and some mates can squad up and join a court against another team. Those changes to the Neighborhood make a big difference as this is likely where you’ll spend most of your time over the next year. You can skim through it in less than three hours, or play the full thing for a good six to seven hours of storyline. It’s worth the effort though, with a real attention to detail (such as having custom Chinese and G League announcers for your games in those respective divisions) and a sense of dramatic flair (thanks to a decent cast of stars including Anthony ‘Falcon from the MCU’ Mackie, actor-turned-sports motormouth Michael Rapaport, and Haley Joel 'I see dead people' Osment). Taking your custom player from a Chinese league to the G League (the NBA’s developmental division) all the way to a shot in the NBA itself is paced just right, and offers a significant step up from the rushed effort featured in last year’s instalment.Īccess to the Neighborhood has been gated behind the M圜areer story mode, so you’ll need to finish the whole thing before you can enter the series’ revamped social hub. As we mentioned earlier, ‘The Way Back’ follows a young player who fails to make the cut in the NBA Draft and finds himself playing far from home in Shanghai. M圜areer, one of the crown jewels in NBA 2K19’s impressive selection of modes, returns once more and boasts one of the best storylines in recent years. Of course, there’s still the visual downgrade to contend with when compared to the PS4 and Xbox One versions - player models are detailed but lack that extra layer of polish found elsewhere, and there’s a noticeable amount of slowdown when navigating the menus - but it’s proof that Switch is powerful enough to run a fully-fledged sports sim without compromising where it really matters. Visual Concepts has been hard at work optimising the Switch port so it runs without any crashes or game-breaking faults. For a start, NBA 2K19 isn’t launching with the vipers’ nest of technical issues that effectively made last year’s entry unplayable for the first couple of weeks. ![]()
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