NBA 2K21 is free on Epic Games Store this week
The free game on the Epic Games Store this week is NBA 2K21.
One of the several enticing bonuses of the Epic Games Store is it’s weekly free game offering. Once every week, a new game is rotated in, allowing any player to download it for free within a seven day period and own it forever. The latest free game has been revealed, and it’s the latest installment in the popular basketball simulation franchise, NBA 2K21.
NBA 2K21 was revealed as the newest free game on the Epic Games Store when it appeared in the digital store on May 20, 2021. Epic Games usually likes to keep its free game reveals a secret until they pop up in the store. From now until May 27, 2021, at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET, anyone who has the Epic Games Store installed on their PC can download NBA 2K21 for free and keep it forever. The game is usually priced at $59.99.
With Trailblazers star Damien Lillard featured on the cover, NBA 2K21 is the latest installment in the annual basketball simulation franchise. It should be known that this is not the “next-gen” version of the game that was released exclusively for the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, so it will not feature the upgrades and changes that are included in that version. However, it still features all of the realistic basketball action that’s made the franchise so popular over the years.
We may not have given NBA 2K21 high marks in our review, but a free game is a free game. If sports games aren’t your jam, the Epic Games Store vault will offer up a new free game next Thursday at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET when NBA 2K21 is rotated out. For more on the Epic Games Store, we’ve got you covered right here on Shacknews.
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Last thing I want to do is White Knight fucking Epic, but the latest entry in a major sports franchise is pretty significant even if you (like myself) don't care about sports. The site is crashing hard right now which I don't think I've seen happen since GTA5.
That said yeah I hope the next game they give away is something I'm more interested in, though it's not like I really play anything I get off of EGS besides Satisfactory or Diabotical anyway,-
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Funny thing is I think I now have this one plus NBA 2K16 and NBA 2K17 and I've never paid for any of them, they just came in bundles or something.
Oh and NBA2K9. I found it for $0.99 on disc at Micro Center years after the fact and remembering the issues with it I grabbed it. That's the one where they used Steam (not sure if it was their first time or what) and they somehow put it in stores on disc with no Steam key included. They worked with Valve so that "everyone who bought it could use it" or however they phrased it.
Turns out what that means is anyone who inserts the disc and runs through its Steam installer now has the game, the part where Valve asks for a key doesn't happen. So obviously the loophole here is anyone who gets a hold of the disc, or an ISO, can have the game. In my case I legit got a copy on disc.
That whole fiasco probably lost them a ton of money since it was so easy to get the game on disc from someone plus they immediately stopped selling it digitally, making it one of the few Steam games you can't actually buy on Steam but that wasn't delisted (it's been delisted since)
Having that on disc was worth $0.99 just for the story behind it.
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Checked out some quick reviews on NBA 2K21 and the complaints seem to mainly be: microtransactions; and stagnant gameplay. NOW if someone has NEVER PLAYED an NBA game since like the Commodore 64 days, would this actually be a pretty great game?
I'm a bandwagon Raptors fan, but I used to watch a lot of basketball in the 90s.
Baseball for life.
I did own a few basketball games back in the day, most notably one called Fast Break ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwW0aqGS4Pk) but the gameplay was kinda shit. It looked decent for back then, but the best basketball gameplay back then was probably GBA Championship Basketball (https://youtu.be/l0RSjfKS8RM?t=307). We played a tonne of this.
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You'll probably be blown away if you haven't played a basketball game in that long. It will feel kinda stiff and unwieldy at first because of the more realistic physical movement on the players with some animation priority compared to sports games of the past.
My main complaint for that series is still with the online. The delay based nature makes timing shots and playing defense frustrating as hell, and they can't be bothered to improve that Quake on dial-up nonsense after all these years. If you're mainly playing offline you should be fine there. -
I'm betting if you're coming to this year's edition new, right now you will find it fun for a couple weeks. Like all sports games with trading card mechanics (Madden MUT style) the best cards are released late in the year to keep players hooked and playing. So you can probably jump in and stick together a decent (but not great) team in a couple weeks time and then delete the whole mess and go on about your life having spent zero dollars.
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Something to brace for is the 80GB install size (or at least the site says 80GB but I guess that could be the space you need to download and install and the end footprint is smaller)
Last time I asked how a sports game can take up more space than most AAA FPS games I was told the culprit is likely the textures the series started incorporating once 4K became a consumer thing. -
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BTW if you "buy" NBA 2K21, they give you the 10$ coupon for free.
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ugh i’ve been trying to use my switch pro controller for this game/ egs
but i haven’t had any luck buttons are just mapped incorrectly.
anyone else with any luck?
steam has better controller support.-
you can add the game's EXE to steam and then I think your controller settings will work with it.
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nope already tried. the game fires up and won’t proceed to the game main menu.
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