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NBA 2K22

byVisual Concepts•2021

NBA 2K22 puts the entire basketball universe in your hands. Play now in real NBA and WNBA environments against authentic teams and players. Build your own dream team in MyTeam with today’s stars and yesterday’s legends. Live out your own pro journey in MyCareer and experience your personal rise to the NBA. Flex your management skills as a powerful ...

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Released
September 9, 2021
Genres
Action · Simulator · Sport
Publisher
2K
Platforms
PC · PS4 · Xbox One · Switch · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S

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The changes that were implemented for NBA 2K22 are for the better. Changing The City to a quest-based system that can get your player more quickly into action is a positive, albeit the experience is sluggish and slow while navigating The City. Tons of product placement and a quest mission featuring Jake from State Farm is pretty cringey. Playing online with your player still amounts to input lag delays and player spamming threes from the perimeter. MySTAFF being added into MyNBA is a cool new metric that can provide boosts to your teams, along with the ability to do season with the WNBA, adds ...

Sep 20, 2021

NBA 2K22 is a sound step forward for the series. While it doesn’t always hit the mark thanks to the grindy MyCAREER mode and microtransaction-heavy MyTEAM, the gameplay and presentation is still second to none.

May 7, 2025

For the last few years, the NBA 2K series has had a bit of a rough up and down. The highlights continue to be that the NBA 2K series is the absolute best basket

Oct 7, 2021

NBA 2K22 may have the best basketball gameplay in the series’ history but continues to be plagued by a massive microtransaction focus and persistent technical issues.

Sep 24, 2021

All in all, this is the best game the NBA game the 2K series has seen in many years. On the pitch, everything flows exactly as it should with many improvements from last year. Microtransactions are still everywhere in the game and to be able to compete online with your created character or in MyTeam, you almost need to spend money. If you have skipped the series in the last year, it may be time to take a look now. It is not perfect, but it has taken a very big step in the right direction.

Sep 22, 2021

As solid as it’s ever been on the court, NBA 2K22 is still an astonishingly good sports game, but its continued reliance on cynical microtransactions in MyCareer and MyTeam leave a sour taste.

Sep 21, 2021

If you’re coming to NBA 2K22 to play some basketball, it’s a tremendous game on Switch. The shooting and dribbling are both reworked in positive ways and games are more realistic and approachable than ever. Outside of regular seasons, though, the modes you play that basketball in are trending downward in quality. Unless you’re ready to live your life one pack of virtual cards at a time, there isn’t much of value in MyCareer, MyGM, or MyLeague. Here’s hoping NBA 2K23 takes the refined gameplay and brings about more exciting variation in the modes.

Sep 20, 2021

How does NBA 2k22 fare on current/last-gen? And is the 2k Cruise Neighborhood better than next-gen's City? Found out as PSXE reviews NBA2k22.

Sep 24, 2021

NBA 2K22 is the next installment of the premier NBA video game basketball simulation series.

Sep 30, 2021

The biggest obstacle to enjoying NBA 2K22 in its current state are the seemingly longest load times to date on any Switch title. It can take minutes to jump

Sep 20, 2021

I can’t do it anymore. This is the year that NBA 2K has turned me into the Joker.

Sep 22, 2021

All in all, NBA 2K22 on next-gen systems is the best NBA 2K game to release in years. The gameplay receives a much-needed revamp, leading to a fun experience for everyone, regardless of whether you are playing as a primary scorer or defensive anchor. MyNBA gives players an in-depth and customizable franchise mode with some sweet additions like the new staff system. It may be overbearing at times but, MyNBA is a franchise mode worth trying out. Sadly, even with all of these intriguing changes, such as the new additions to MyCareer, NBA 2K22 is brought down a bit by some blatant advertisements a...

Sep 18, 2021