Played during the free play weekend; leveling is a huge grind, might be on-par or worse than nba 2k. Such a bummer if you just want to play an offline single player mode, it's bare bones as hell. The only 'exposition' in your story is podcasts that play in the background while you're setting up for a match and they talk about 'an upcoming player.' No press conferences or rivalry drama to speak of, just play and win stuff with terrible cutscenes.

A few times, my racket disappeared into the ground as my player was celebrating a win, which for a game that doesn't even remotely tax my RTX 3070, in 2024, is abysmal. Lots of other random graphical glitches abound.

No match commentary, audio is lackluster in general with the on-court sounds and crowd too.

They did a 'battle pass' system for extra cosmetics but all the good stuff is unsurprisingly behind a premium paid pass. Also, some courts are unavailable to unlock forever unless you pre-ordered the game, which includes all nighttime majors, which is a real headscratcher. You can't even buy them if you didn't go in on the pre-order.

2k continues to prove that they're basically EA but (probably) worse.

Played during the free play weekend; leveling is a huge grind, might be on-par or worse than nba 2k. Such a bummer if you just want to play an offline single player mode, it's bare bones as hell. The only 'exposition' in your story is podcasts that play in the background while you're setting up for a match and they talk about 'an upcoming player.' No press conferences or rivalry drama to speak of, just play and win stuff with terrible cutscenes. A few times, my racket disappeared into the ground as my player was celebrating a win, which for a game that doesn't even remotely tax my RTX 3070, in 2024, is abysmal. Lots of other random graphical glitches abound. No match commentary, audio is lackluster in general with the on-court sounds and crowd too. They did a 'battle pass' system for extra cosmetics but all the good stuff is unsurprisingly behind a premium paid pass. Also, some courts are unavailable to unlock forever unless you pre-ordered the game, which includes all nighttime majors, which is a real headscratcher. You can't even buy them if you didn't go in on the pre-order. 2k continues to prove that they're basically EA but (probably) worse.