2/5 ★ – jdraco's review of NBA 2K25.

This is a weird game to rate for me Because I really don’t play the actual game itself, I only play the MyNBA mode and just do career sims of random players So now with that being said, you may be wondering why I gave this game the low score that I did And that’s because doing these career sims fucking sucks This game makes absolutely no sense whatsoever I could spend the rest of my life trying to dissect and uncover all the algorithms and complex values that go into the simulation of these games And I still would never come close to understanding how it works Teams just win and lose at random You could assemble the fucking Avengers on your basketball team, win 70+ games, and then go into the playoffs and randomly end up getting swept by the Houston Rockets in the first round And this element of bullshit just makes these career sims so annoying, because so many of them will just plateau because the player whose career I’m simming and the team they play for can almost never get over the hump and win a championship unless I interfere in some way by forcing wins And that's just stupid as hell And I shouldn’t have to do it The game should just be logically consistent, but it never is Half the time it feels like these basketball games are being dictated by a 2-year-old who decides the winner by picking whichever team logo looks the coolest Again, it’s stupid as hell, and overall, so is this game And it’s made even stupider by the fact that for some reason, Jayson Tatum is the cover athlete for this game… 2/5