![]() But at least in FIFA, this is confined to Ultimate Team. In FIFA, the monetisation is similarly predatory, pushing you constantly towards Ultimate Team, the mode NBA 2K’s MyTeam directly riffs on. Most frustratingly, coins are too tied to so many modes. On PS5, before you even start the game up, the offer to buy coins is advertised to you. It’s good, but it’s soulless and joyless. It’s no longer anything like the mid-’90s Bulls team it’s more like the early ‘00s Lakers. NBA 2K22 is still crammed with monetisation, but the comparison no longer feels apt. On the court, just as Jordan was in the Flu Game, the action was sublime, but it was dragged down everywhere else by this insidious infection. ![]() The sabotaged pizza at the heart of NBA 2K21 was VC, the in-game currency needed in virtually every game mode. When I reviewed NBA 2K21 last year I compared it to ‘The Flu Game’, the infamous match-up between the Chicago Bulls and the Utah Jazz in the ‘97 Finals where Michael Jordan put in a game winning, 38 point performance while shaking and sweating profusely, regularly leaving the court to vomit. ![]()
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