The biggest issue I have with the 2k24 mt gameplay is that the team communication is completely off sometimes. For instance, when playing defence one of your teammates might tell you to switch after the opposing team sets a screen. After a request like this both defensive players should swap who they are guarding, but the computer-controlled players aren’t doing this, so you’re left with an open player. This can heavily punish you in the game and is extremely frustrating when it does happen.

The rotations during my early games were also messed up. For whatever reason LeBron James, easily one of the best players in the NBA today, was constantly sitting out at end of the games, regardless of what the current score was. Even though he was our leading player at the time, he would always be on the bench while I was in the game during those final minutes, but also playing out of position alongside a second year rookie. Weird choice coach, but whatever you say.

I also had the game crash half a dozen times; fortunately it was never inside of a game and only when I was running around the Neighborhood or navigating a menu. At the time of writing this Visual Concepts have released a few patches to fix stability issues, so I’m hoping that will resolve the problems I was having.

MyGM also returns with another narrative based story where you can take over an NBA organisation and run things behind the scenes. There is an option to continue the story from last year if you wish to do so or alternatively you can just start from scratch. The collectable card game MyTeam will offer a new set of challenges for this year. In this mode you build a fantasy team and try to complete a set of games. You obtain card packs to help you build a team that you can take into the list of new challenges each week in the single player part of the game, but you can also compete against other players online. Again, VC creeps into this aspect of the game, allowing you to use the currency to purchase card packs or visit the online auction house to buy any desired cards.

As I’ve said, the basketball gameplay in NBA 2k24 is brilliant, and it has been for the last decade that I’ve been reviewing this series. But the way VC is used in the 2k24 mt for sale game needs to be re-evaluated, as it has become ridiculous and is blatantly pay-to-win. This greedy freemium model within an already fully priced game needs to disappear.