{"id":6978,"date":"2022-09-16T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/16\/review-nba-2k23-michael-jordan-challenge-is-a-slam-dunk-in-another-solid-switch-port\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:31:08","slug":"review-nba-2k23-michael-jordan-challenge-is-a-slam-dunk-in-another-solid-switch-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/16\/review-nba-2k23-michael-jordan-challenge-is-a-slam-dunk-in-another-solid-switch-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: NBA 2K23 &#8211; Michael Jordan Challenge Is A Slam Dunk In Another Solid Switch Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A &#8216;Magic&#8217; season for Switch b-ball.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s once again reached that time of year when another entry in the <strong>NBA 2K<\/strong> franchise slam-dunks onto our consoles. Yes, it&#8217;s sometimes difficult to muster much excitement for these annual instalments, and it&#8217;s easy to dismiss them as just another incremental update that looks and plays almost identically to the previous season&#8217;s effort. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/nba_2k23\">NBA 2K23<\/a> is worth getting a little more jazzed about than usual, as it combines an excellent new Michael Jordan Challenge mode with, what we reckon, is the best on-court action we&#8217;ve seen from the series thus far, even if this Switch port has had to make some cuts here and there.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s kick things off with that new Michael Jordan Challenge mode, which feels like a fully fleshed-out and richly rewarding part of the game. Here you&#8217;ll take part in 15 specific challenges based on events from across MJ&#8217;s career, with each and every one of them presented in exacting detail, featuring era-specific stadiums, kits, commentary and screen filters that give the whole thing a delightfully aged look. This is no throwaway mode, it&#8217;s a full-on history lesson to sink your teeth into that really brings MJ&#8217;s early career and biggest NBA moments back to life.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/nba-2k23\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: NBA 2K23 &#8211; Michael Jordan Challenge Is A Slam Dunk In Another Solid Switch Port<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A &#8216;Magic&#8217; season for Switch b-ball.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s once again reached that time of year when another entry in the <strong>NBA 2K<\/strong> franchise slam-dunks onto our consoles. Yes, it&#8217;s sometimes difficult to muster much excitement for these annual instalments, and it&#8217;s easy to dismiss them as just another incremental update that looks and plays almost identically to the previous season&#8217;s effort. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/nba_2k23\">NBA 2K23<\/a> is worth getting a little more jazzed about than usual, as it combines an excellent new Michael Jordan Challenge mode with, what we reckon, is the best on-court action we&#8217;ve seen from the series thus far, even if this Switch port has had to make some cuts here and there.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s kick things off with that new Michael Jordan Challenge mode, which feels like a fully fleshed-out and richly rewarding part of the game. 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This is no throwaway mode, it&#8217;s a full-on history lesson to sink your teeth into that really brings MJ&#8217;s early career and biggest NBA moments back to life.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/nba-2k23\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}