NBA 2K18

NBA 2K18 is a basketball game with NBA games, career and franchise modes, and online and offline team-building competitions. You can develop a MyPLAYER, play in The Playground Park and the Pro-Am circuit, collect player cards in MyTEAM, or manage a league and build a franchise.

MyCAREER and The Neighborhood

In MyCAREER, you build a career through NBA games, The Playground Park and Pro-Am, or explore an open neighborhood with shops and venues. The mode adds MyPLAYER upgrades and endorsements, with a cast of characters that includes NBA players.

The Road to 99 rewards you for raising your MyPLAYER’s overall rating across the modes you play. A unified badge system spans Pro-Am, Park and your NBA journey in MyCAREER; attributes, animations and badges combine to shape your play style. You can create your player by scanning your face with the MyNBA2K18 mobile app or choosing from presets, with updated hairstyles and more accurately represented height and weight.

MyTEAM modes

MyTEAM lets you collect cards featuring past and present NBA players, then compete in online and offline modes. Its challenges and competitions include:

• Super Max: Build a team under a salary cap and compete in a season mode against players of similar ability. Divide the limited cap among 13 players, choose a lineup for each round and earn prizes based on your performance.
• Pack & Playoffs: Open packs before each round and draft a five-player team. Compete against other players’ drafted teams and advance for better prizes, with a new lineup each round.
• Schedule Challenges: Play a 30-game schedule for each of the 30 NBA teams, completing 900 challenges based on the 2017–18 NBA schedule to earn MyTEAM points and prizes.
• All-Time Domination: Challenge all 30 All-Time Teams.

Gameplay and presentation

A new motion system dynamically creates animations for dribbling and off-ball movement instead of driving those actions through fixed animations. The shot meter provides multiple feedback points to help you time shots more precisely.

NBA players have rebuilt faces and redesigned body models, with details such as scars, stretch marks and faded tattoos. Laser-scanned uniforms cover all 30 NBA teams, with True Color Technology, fits tailored to player body types, and a collection of scanned shoes and accessories. The broadcast features 13 commentators, including Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett, who join the booth on a rotating basis.

Teams from past and present

All-Time Teams bring the greatest players in the history of all 30 NBA franchises together on their respective rosters. You can play them in Play Now or take on all 30 in MyTEAM’s All-Time Domination mode. Classic Teams include 62 teams from the past, with 17 new additions; you can match them against current teams or replay historic Finals matchups.

MyGM and MyLEAGUE

MyGM introduces a story-driven franchise mode in which your choices and answers at key points shape your path, while retaining team-building and management. MyLEAGUE lets you customize the number of teams and games, league settings and format for a single season, multiple seasons or online play, or skip the regular season and go straight to the Playoffs.

Both modes include NBA rules and updates based on the new Collective Bargaining Agreement. You can negotiate player contracts, including Super Max, Bird Rights, Over-38 and two-way deals; use the Stretch Provision to reduce the salary-cap impact of waiving a player; and develop young players in the G-League or stash them overseas.