It’s been a long time since we’ve covered sports titles in Digital Foundry, however with the advent of NBA 2K21 on the newest wave of NBA 2K MT Coins consoles, we’re seeing something genuinely fascinating here, using a proper generational jump in fidelity across the board. While it may not seem this way on the surface, sports games really are – from what I can tell – one of the more difficult genres to work on.

Truncated development programs require annual entries in each series, which means less time between each release but more than this, these matches have to match up to some correctly’real’ encounter, often delivered using a TV-like presentation. A game such as NBA 2K21 needs to deal with real people in real places performing complicated, interlinking actions. If you are off by even a hair, then you’re diving straight into the uncanny valley.

NBA 2K21 brings a massive jump

So what makes this so hard? Well, nailing the arenas and player likenesses is a huge part of the equation but it’s the motion that makes this difficult. Developer Visual Concepts – whose work on this particular franchise dates all of Buy NBA 2K Coins the way back to the Dreamcast age – is doing some fantastic work here.