Review: NBA 2K18 🏀

Rating: Avoid - Medium - Recommended - Essential

Platform: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows

Developer: Visual Concept

As a young boy and happy owner of a Playstation, I had a mandatory purchase every year: Basketball games! Michael Jordan hung on all the walls, the basketball cards lay safe in their big folder and on screen I could control the big players for victory. But over time, the posters smoked and the orange ball was suddenly white, because FIFA had now taken over.

I was so excited to test the new NBA 2K18, which had made a great deal of bread on their amazing graphics and lively rendering of the players, their movements and the individual's forces. First match is Cavaliers against Golden State, LeBron against Curry and should it prove; Me against the operating system.

It's simply too difficult. The game was never flowing at all, and either Curry went full blitz through the crowd, then shooting behind the basket or losing the ball down from his own basket. The elegance that the sport has over is completely lost with this horrible operating system, which is neither logical nor well-intentioned.

On the other hand, I was allowed to make my own player and then Sims went on it. What hair color, what shape etc, etc., until I found out that I could put my own picture in. Hey, Picasso! My player ended up as a somewhat confused type, most of all resembling Picasso's Germania and a cryptic genetic experiment. Well, but on the track with him and then it went wrong again. There was a mistake of mistake and an abnormally large defeat.

As a big game, I bend for the hugely beautiful graphics and the whole mood of the fighting, built on pre-shows, comments from famous TV hosts and delicious movie sequences, but the elegant graphics and amazing mood do not save the experience of the struggles themselves and their lack of elegance and intensity - which is the most important thing in this type of game.