NBA 2K20 Review: 5 Ups & 4 Downs

by Andy H Murray

1. A First-Class Basketball Experience

LeBron James Anthony Davis NBA 2K20
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Above all else, NBA 2K20 biggest success comes from what has always been the franchise's greatest strength: basketball.

You won't find a more realistic recreation of the sport anywhere else. This is comfortably the greatest basketball simulation ever made, with the tweaked gameplay, authenticity, and impeccable presentation coming together to form one beautiful package.

Take this in isolation and NBA 2K20 is a five-star game. Really, it plays that well, and it's a shame that the monetisation and glut of bugs take this five-star basketball experience down to a three-star gaming experience.

Those able to compartmentalise and ignore the aforementioned problems will almost certainly score 2K20 higher. That's great, because there's nothing like the care gaming experience when it locks in. Had the developers not gotten greedy, the franchise would remain the revered critical darling it once was, but such is life.

Still, short of getting yourself to an arena, there's no better way of experiencing the NBA.

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Andy has been with WhatCulture for eight years and is currently WhatCulture's Wrestling Channel Manager. A writer, presenter, and editor with 10+ years of experience in online media, he has been a sponge for all wrestling knowledge since playing an old Royal Rumble 1992 VHS to ruin in his childhood. Having previously worked for Bleacher Report, Andy specialises in short and long-form writing, video presenting, voiceover acting, and editing, all characterised by expert wrestling knowledge and commentary. Andy is as much a fan of 1985 Jim Crockett Promotions as he is present-day AEW and WWE - just don't make him choose between the two.