You don't get drafted and the mode starts off with you furiously chasing your agent (not a childhood friend) around the living room of your apartment. In 2K15, you're still getting a story but it's been changed significantly with a lot more options added this time around.
You would get drafted in 2014, and you had to work your way through the rotation and the NBA, testing free agency and demanding trades if you wanted. Other agents would try to poach you away from your friend with the promise of brighter spotlights on your career. You had to earn sponsorship opportunities and decide which company to sign with. 2K Sports introduced a story in which your agent was a childhood friend and you had a rival rookie named Jackson Ellis, who you'd have run-ins with throughout the year. In NBA 2K14, we were introduced to the first real story mode in M圜areer mode in which your self-designed MyPlayer goes through his own NBA career from start to whenever you're done playing it. Let's talk about M圜areer, MyGM and the gameplay and presentation from NBA 2K15. Thanks to 2K Sports, I've been able to play the game over the last few days to be able to give my thoughts on NBA 2K15 and what's stood out to me is the efforts made in order to not just give you a mode to try out but to give you a story to follow.
While there are multiple modes in which you build a team through unlocking "player cards" in almost a tournament style of play or setting up a single season to navigate as a franchise, the bread and butter of the 2K series has become M圜areer mode and MyGM mode. More so than ever, 2K Sports is making an effort to bring the NBA world to your console. The basketball play has always been solid and improving as the development team works to bring realism into a pretend world by attempting to eliminate glitches and holes in the strategy when you're holding the controller. The graphics year in and year out have been spectacular, growing ever more lifelike with each advancement in gaming technology. What the franchise has done such a great job of over the years is trying to make the world of NBA basketball available at your fingertips. NBA players play it as much as some fans and are quick to want to hit up the 2K Sports crew (headed by Ronnie Singh) to find out their ratings in the game long before the game is released.
The NBA 2K series hasn't just grabbed the majority of basketball video game sales since its inception in 1999 it's become a huge part of basketball culture off the pixelated court as well. October 7 marks another edition of one of the biggest video game franchises in the history of gaming. Take control of the NBA in any way you want in NBA 2K15.