I mainly just play this for the Career mode, and it has gone consistently downhill every year i think. Now we have "A Spike Lee Joint" plastered all over it and promise of a Career mode starting off in High School and going through to college, sounds great to me!
Well the 3 High School games are pointless, as you can go to any of the 9 colleges represented regardless. The 4 College games seem to have some bearing on your draft pick but it doesnt really matter which team you play for.
Then you have 8 games in your Rookie season, which makes no sense to me at all. In these 15 games we go through the whole "Spike Lee" mini movie which is ridiculous as you can play as any race but end up in a Black family with a black twin sister. Some awful and cliche back story regarding living in the projects and being poor and then becoming a star but having to choose between your lifestyle and your basketball, but then any decisions regarding your career are made automatically. The only choice that you have in any of what happens is choosing the College you go too which doesnt seem to affect anything.
Hey 2K! What is the point of a career mode when i dont have choices? Let me choose my agent, let me choose where i want to go, let me choose what i want to endorse.. Why do i want to watch some poorly written cliched melodrama crap about a poor basketballer from Harlem which absolutely makes no sense because i am a 7 foot White guy with a black twin sister??
Anyway as far as the actual basketball goes, it is pretty much the same as 2K15. I actually havent been able to make out any differences in the gameplay other than maybe better animations. So what is the point of this years installment... Um updated rosters i guess?