Definitely giving too much credit for not really that much change but Ego Engine is still superb and the Team Career mode is easily my favorite career mode consistently in sports gaming. Feels masterful on the PS5 DualSense, too!

Dude, how does just moving the stick around a map with loads of enemies work this damn well? Hell yeah.

I still love playing the actual basketball in this game and like most years, that aspect is still well honed. And look, I'll gladly eat up the aesthetic stuff added for the MyEras and the Jordan Challenge. It just bothers me that after touting how efficient their load times had gotten in the prior two entries, there's definite wait times now. What happened?