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NBA 2K18 is a basketball simulation video game developed by Visual Concepts and published by 2K Sports. It is the 19th installment in the NBA 2K franchise and the successor to NBA 2K17. It was released in September 2017 for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. A watered down PS3 and Xbox 360 version also exists, but this page only focuses on the more well known Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One versions instead.

Servers for NBA 2K18 are being shutdown on December 31, 2019.

Gameplay

NBA 2K18 is a basketball simulation game which, like the previous games in the series, strives to realistically depict the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as present improvements over the previous installments. The player mainly plays NBA games with real-life or customized players and teams; games follow the rules and objectives of NBA games. Several game modes are present and many settings can be customized. In terms of commentary, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett appear as guest commentators.

A staple of the series, MyCareer, returns as one of the available game modes. MyCareer is a career mode in which the player creates their own customizable basketball player and plays through their basketball career. The mode features a storyline which plays out as the player competes in games as well as off-court activities. The creation tools have been overhauled – new hairstyles and body archetypes are available for the player to make use of, among other things.

NBA 2K18 again, for the sixth time in the series, features MyTeam mode, a mode based around the idea of building the ultimate basketball team, and maintaining a virtual trading card collection. Players assemble and play with their team in basketball tournament-style competitions against other players' teams in several different formats. Assets for a team are acquired through various means, including randomized card packs and the auction house. Virtual Currency (VC) is used extensively in the mode.

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The game introduces a new feature to the series, Neighborhoods, which tie into the game's MyCareer, MyPark, and ProAm game modes. In addition to allowing access to the aforementioned modes, Neighborhoods feature an open world design which players can explore while interacting with other players. Several activities can be completed to raise attributes and the player can purchase items.

Why It Sucks

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1. This game is infested with microtransactions. Yes, there's a lot of microtransactions in a high-budget AAA game, arguably even more than a free-to-play mobile game despite this game asking a retail price of 49 dollars, bringing it into the premium games category.
2. Literally demands VC (premium currency in-game) in almost everything. For example, the game gives your avatar an ugly default haircut, and if you want a new haircut, you need 100-150 (formerly 1000-1500) VC points and you can't even preview the new haircut. Also, if you want to re-apply a hair-cut that you've already purchased you need to pay that amount of VC again. Even something as minor as haircuts cost VC.
3. You only start out with 6,000 VC (Virtual Currency) and get up to 500 VC per MyCareer match, which you quickly find out is a very small amount. Putting that in context you see that you need a whole lot of VC to upgrade the overall stats. With 6,000 VC you can only upgrade your stats enough to upgrade the overall from 60 (the starting amount) to 62. An overall of 60 is farbelow average in this game.
4. The customization options require you to reach a certain stat total to unlock them, requiring you to purchase stat upgrades before you can even choose to buy those items.
5. To make microtransactions much worse, various moves (even the most basic moves) and skill moves are locked behind a skill paywall. You cannot shoot the ball correctly if you don't pay them VC.
6. The stuff you buy with microtransactions are tied to a character not your account, meaning if you create a new character you have to rebuy all that stuff again. And if you delete the character guess what? You lose the VC you spent with the character you deleted, and you have to buy them again.
7. Painfully slow grinding intentionally made to punish players who don't rely significantly on microtransactions, by preventing them from getting enough VC to upgrade stats to get more VC, essentially making the game pay to win.
8. Terrible MyCareer story which makes zero sense with zero ability to shape the tale.
9. Unfair extreme difficulty, your starter team in MyCareer mode has awful stats, and you'll get beaten by strong teams almost every match.
10. It is unfairly difficult to do the MyTeam weekly challenges with the 'free' teams given.
11. The Neighborhood (the place where you can purchase item and upgrade your characters) is full of creepy avatars.
12. Cringeworthy, unskippable, and overly long cutscenes in MyCareer mode which exploits the two hours Steam refund limit by wasting your time and forcing a playtime longer than two hours to start playing, preventing you from refunding the game using that policy.
13. 2K bribed various game reviewers to give them high scores for this crappy game. They forced pressure against The Sixth Axis who gave this game a negative 3/10 review score. Not to mention, there used to be an explanation about this on Wikipedia until the page disappeared for some unknown reason.
14. Lots of game glitches. You can get stuck in the elevator cutscene in MyCourt, for example.
15. The MyPark game mode still has servers filled with lag and latency issues, and other general glitches despite the feature being in the series since 2K13.
16. The series is starting to stagnate due to being the main go-to game for basketball gameplay, with repeated animations and few new features being added.
17. After getting backlash for the microtransactions the only thing that 2K Games did to compensate is to reduce the prices of the haircuts. They did nothing else to improve the situation of the game. Even Electronic Arts did more to improve relationships by temporarily shutting down microtransactions in Star Wars Battlefront II and then increasing the speed of progress in the game.
18. The worst thing about this is the fact that this series was awesome at one point in time.

Redeeming Qualities

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1. It's visually stunning.
2. The concept of the neighborhood is very good, and could have been a lot of fun if it wasn't smothered in ads, creepy avatars, and persistent microtransaction begging.
3. Just like previous entries in the series, the controls remain tight and responsive, and the core gameplay is still great. Unfortunately it is ruined by many of the factors explained above.
4. AI has significantly improved, and a match on Hall of Fame is always a challenge.
5. Many of the flaws, including pervasive microtransactions, bugs, and a terrible story, are with the MyTeam and MyCareer modes. MyGM, MyLeague and Play Now are still good.
6. The Nintendo Switch version (port wise) is great, it's full featured with graphics that are close to the PS4 and Xbox One versions (unlike another 2K published game on the platform, or even FIFA 18 and 19 for that matter...) even with minor issues like 30FPS frame rate and lesser visuals it still manages to be high quality port for Switch standards.

Reception

Despite generally favorable reviews from critics, thanks to 2K’s bribery, the game was heavily panned by Metacritic users with the Xbox One version receiving a score of 1.5, the PS4 version receiving a score of 1.7, the PC version receiving a score of 1.6, and the Nintendo Switch version receiving a score of 4.5.

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