Stevivor said the ads were also running on NBA 2K21's PC and PlayStation 4 versions. Around Halloween last year, NBA 2K20 started featuring ads that were not skippable. They were launched in NBA 2K19 in the summer after 2K22 MT its launch. Both generated backlashes that soon ended.

It's not new to have ads during games and it's not just fake billboards or real-life sponsors. Madden NFL 10 began with it on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Also, they included an in-game bumper advertisement for Snickers in the past ten years.

In September, EA Sports inserted unskippable advertisements into UFC 4 (and even 2018's UFC 3), which launched in August on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC. EA Sports eventually issued an apology to the fighters and removed the ads. The company noted that the game-related ads were "not new to the UFC franchise," but said its inclusion "should have been announced to players before the game began."

There's no doubt that the most popular basketball gaming franchise is NBA 2K. It was a perfect debut with NBA 2K. This made it a formidable threat to EA Sports' NBA Live. Through the years, 2K so routinely beat Live that EA canceled games and rebooted their franchise. It's interesting to look back at the times what happened when NBA 2K was its best. There's more than 20 years worth of entries. Based on the scores found on Metacritic these games scored the highest in the timeline of the franchise since it's one of the top NBA 2K games, ranked.

Updated on June 29th, 2021 by Kevin Pantoja: Considering the long-running history of the NBA 2K gaming franchise, it's worthwhile to take a deeper look into its past. Every single entry has garnered at the very least positive critical acclaim and Buy MT 2K22 some are among the best basketball games ever produced. It's a good way to decide the NBA 2K game is the best.