The latest iteration to the basketball simulation game from 2K Sports, the “NBA 2K16,” has finally made its way to the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, and the PC on September 29 to enthusiastic gamers, who spared no time in playing to their heart’s delight.
While the game did stay true to its promise of better visuals and overall gameplay, some critics feel that “NBA 2K16” has a major downside with its MyCareer mode that was developed by critically-acclaimed director and avid New York Knicks fan Spike Lee.
In the previous editions of the MyCareer mode in “NBA 2K” games, a gamer basically creates for his playable character his own unique basketball story from practically out of nothing. So the basketball character that the player chooses goes through the training, the scrimmages, play on tournaments, and finally get a chance to play in the league.
It’s actually fictional for the most part, but it is quite fun, which makes MyCareer mode one of the gamer favorites in the “NBA 2K” franchise.
The Verge describes the mode as capturing the essential silliness of achieving individual, virtual greatness and marries the silliness to a potent, finely tuned power fantasy. So when the player character’s work and skill development culminates in a windmill placed on some unsuspecting center’s head or a trip to the Hall of Fame, the rewards become quite gratifying. Accordingly, the MyCareer mode is the goofy part of an otherwise serious game.
Taking the fun out of it
But Spike Lee apparently took the fun out of it by coming out with a boxed-in version of MyCareer mode in “NBA 2K16.”
Instead of the loose narratives and scattered cutscenes of the previous MyCareer modes in previous games, Lee came up with “Livin’ Da Dream,” the framing device for the first six hours of the MyCareer mode in “NBA 2K16.”
As a writer, producer, and director, Lee actually turned it into a feature film which many gamers find overbearing. And instead of players choosing their own path for their playable character to greatness or oblivion, they are forced to take in one player only whose name is Frequency Vibrations or Freq.
Freq already has his own story in the game and whether the gamer likes it or not, he would have to live with him the rest of the way in charting his basketball career all the way to the NBA.
Critics say that aside from being filled with cliché, shallow, and ridiculous, “Livin’ Da Dream” has actually gobbled up the excitement from the mode, to the point that many are saying that Spike Lee may have misunderstood the appeal of the MyCareer mode in the first place.
Instead of being a fun and free-wheeling take to greatness or oblivion, the current MyCareer mode becomes an oppressive and narrow experience and becomes at odds with the mode’s actual gameplay and character development.
2K Sports has yet to make a statement to respond to the criticisms now being hurled on the MyCareer mode of “NBA 2K16.”
Locker codes and cheats
After finally receiving “NBA 2K16” on their respective gaming consoles, gamers are now clamoring for the locker codes, cheats, and badges so that they can get ahead on the game.
The Franchise Herald, in a recent report, said that new code generators have already been made available for “NBA 2K16” gamers, particularly for Pink Diamond players.
Some of the cheats and locker codes were made available to help gamers maximize the potentials of playable NBA characters including Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Isaiah Thomas, Shaquille O’Neal, Stephen Curry, Paul George, Larry Bird, Karl Malone, and Carmelo Anthony.
In addition, the cheat codes also come with instructions on how players can earn 5,000, 50,000 and 100,000 VC points together with additional diamond players.
Accordingly, the NBA VC code generator is safe to use by gamers because it also features anti-ban system and proxy system so that it can be used on similar IP more than once in a day.