Engaging with practice sessions builds a meter titled "Doin’ the Work." Pres earns a boost to attributes within a handful of sittings. Narrative themes of hard work and success have a literal imprint. Your custom-made high school standout, automatically coined "President" or "Pres" for short, serves as NBA 2K17’s M圜areer star player. NBA 2K17, meanwhile, taps Creed scribe Aaron Covington (along with Creed star Michael B. NBA 2K16’s M圜areer story came from Spike Lee, a narrowly woven urban poverty tale about player avatar Frequency Vibrations. This makes sense - according to stats in the first episode of 2KTV, a weekly video broadcast blending NBA and 2K news, M圜areer now boasts the highest number of players in the franchise. Even when those aspects falter - and they do in terms of storytelling - the groundwork lays out an interesting future.įor the second year in a row, NBA 2K’s M圜areer mode is where the majority of updates happen.
It’s unusual to see the slate of growing options and modes challenge the expectations that come with sports games. Yet, the tempting future presented by NBA 2K17 shows an annualized sports product unwilling to slow down. 2K’s lone basketball competition, EA’s NBA Live, is caught in a development delay on consoles, possibly until the NBA’s All-Star break. Sweeping updates and additions are almost unnecessary at this stage. Somehow, NBA 2K17 continues to preserve the series’ creative gameplay ideas and expressive personality almost two decades in.