NBA 2K25 Review – Luxury Taxed
Like its past several installments, NBA 2K25 is the best sports game I’ve played this year, but it still comes with a bolded, can’t-miss asterisk. This year’s basketball sim from Visual Concepts represents the latest in a series that has been lapping the competition in the sports genre–a group of games each seeking to be your live-service obsession. None justify their time commitment as well as NBA 2K25, which is in a league of its own–for presentation, gameplay, and overall immersion first and foremost–but the whole is actually less than the sum of its parts due to long-embedded pay-to-win tactics I fear will never be undone.
This year’s biggest changes involve a new dribbling physics system that gives ball-control a more realistic feel. The impact of this …
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