NBA 2K22

released on Sep 09, 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 Executive in MyGM and MyLeague. Anyone, anywhere can hoop in NBA 2K22.


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Solo career is already unplayable because 2K Sports shut down the servers at the beginning of 2024.

Tried the MyLeague mode, but it is still the same since I started with the license (in NBA 2K16).

Kinda sad to see how they have ruined the game for a few years...

I actually had a huge issue with this game, the gameplay felt icky, and the multiple editions that still in 2023, now almost 2024 rot up clearance racks annoys me. This game tried to be so much more but actively promoted itself to much.

Special moves break players ankles, otherwise it is hard to get around a defender. Any sort of contact while shooting guaranteed a miss.

I first started with 2K12 and then completely abandoned the series with 2K15. I forgot the series even existed until Epic Games gave away 2K21 for free last year. I picked up the game from there and started again. 2K21 was quite a half a game. Even though I was interested in playing it again after a long break, 2K21, which was a game that should not have been released, was inadequate in many aspects, causing you to get bored quickly. Especially as someone who played 2K12, 2K13 and 2K14 for hundreds of hours, I can clearly say that 2K21 bored me at 50 hours.

The fact that My Career mode didn't have any story made the original ownership of the game meaningless. For these reasons, I decided to buy 2K22 when it went on sale on Steam because according to the news I read, 2K22 had a My Career story, albeit a bad one, but I regretted buying it and I realized that the so-called story wasn't worth buying and I was right to quit the series years ago.

2K22 is exactly the same game as 2K21 except for a few minor things, and in some ways it's even worse and unbalanced, intentionally of course. Despite all its problems, 2K21 was a game that was buried more than it deserved. Yes, there was no improvement compared to 2K20, in fact it was even worse, but the same was true for 2K22 right now. You can easily play 2K21 without buying VC. When I left my character, which I started with a very comfortable 60 overal, I had 84 when I left and I was playing with an average of 35.0 points, 15.0, assists at the PG position.

In my 2nd season, there was no record I didn't break. I had 34 assists and scored like 69 points and it didn't matter if the difficulty was HOF or Pro, there was a balanced difficulty in the game. These averages were achieved by playing inside without shooting. If I had shot, it would have been much higher. I was also used to the shot bar, which was the most criticized part of 2K21. It was much better than the new shot bar in 2K22. The 2K22 shot bar seemed much worse to me both in terms of positioning and timing.

On the other hand, 2K22 has completely become Pay to Win. If you don't have dozens of hours a day to play this game without buying VC, it's almost impossible to improve your character. In 2K21, I was selected from the 2nd place in the 1st round with a 60 overal character. In 2K22, although I tried very hard, I could only be selected from the 29th place in the 1st round because the draft system in 2K22 has been made so ridiculous that you can only play 1 match. You are not given any chance to improve your draft rank and you don't have a college career compared to 2K21. There's no story in 2K21, but at least in college you could play a lot more games, and if you worked hard you could even finish with a championship. 2K22, on the other hand, has become incredibly simplistic because it's impossible to get drafted from the first ranks unless you buy VC at the beginning of the game and upgrade your character to 99 overals.

2K22 has been made incredibly difficult. Everyone on the opposing team can either block or steal your ball easily. Likewise, if they find a gap, they can hit a three-pointer. On the other hand, when it comes to your own team's AI, it's so awful that even if you build your entire starting lineup with 99 overal guys, they'll miss wide open threes, try ridiculous shots and play almost zero defense. Not only time and money, but if you're not a patient person this year, 2K22 is definitely a terrible game that you should stay away from unless it's free. 2K and all their games after 2K14 are mostly hated by their audience, but the fact that they are still making games after all these years is because there is no other alternative and people love basketball. Otherwise 2K has no purpose other than to milk their audience like cows.

They don't even care about single player mode in their games anymore. In 2K22, they added a ridiculous task list feature to force players into online matches. This destroyed the whole seriousness of the game. It's also insulting that they still use the old generation graphically for years despite releasing PC games. Today's PCs have long since surpassed the power of consoles, and the fact that they still release PC games with a graphics engine from 2014 is an example of how they don't care about the PC audience.

The only shortcomings on the PC side are not only graphics, but also features that have been removed compared to the console side in many respects. On the other hand, is it too hard to make the game controls with icons suitable for the keyboard? Does everyone have to use a controller while playing this game? As someone who plays the game very well with the keyboard, I am very uncomfortable with this situation.

To summarize, if you are not going to play online games and buy VCs, there is no reason to buy 2K22, especially if you got NBA 2K21 for free and played it last year like I did. 2K's PC games will never entertain you and will waste your time and money without giving you a good basketball gaming experience. If you are a PC gamer, you should also stay away from the upcoming 2K23, which is the same thing, at least for the first 6 months of its release.

There are very few companies as bad as 2K in this community. Even Ubisoft's games are of a certain quality, but 2K is greedy and I hope that in the coming years we will see a more decent company making games about basketball and we can witness 2K disappear from this market as soon as possible. At the very least they should stop making such crap for PC just for money when they don't care.