While the console and PC versions of 2k Sports? NBA 2k series typically enjoy some significant improvements year to year, the mobile versions are typically left to iterative improvements. Maybe it?s the lack of multiplayer or the slimmed down MyCareer mode, but each year has typically brought small, but welcome changes. Such is the case again with NBA 2k17 [$7.99], which brings to the mobile series a fresh paint job, new controls, and a streamlined MyCareer mode. For the most part, there?s no doubt the changes are for the better. The real question becomes whether it?s worth the upgrade.
There are four main modes in NBA 2k17: Quick Game, Season Mode, Blacktop and My Career. Quick Game and Season Mode are what you?d expect in any annual basketball game while Blacktop is a first-to-21 2v2 street ball game. My Career is the game?s RPG mode and it?s always been my favorite of the bunch (and it?s always the mode that seems to be tweaked every year). For folks that are new the series, My Career has you create a player, take them through some try-out games in College, which leads to your player getting drafted. Once drafted, you and your player work your way up the rotation, earning currency which can be used to improve your player, which lets you make more of a contribution to a team and so on. My Career mode is an amazing mode to begin with and the slow, but steady improvements to your player act as an great driver to keep playing.
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