 2K has been trying to beat NBA Live in this one department. They just dropped a new game, so it's time to see if they finally did it. Man, y'all new to the channel? Be sure to subscribe, drop a like on the video. Let's get straight into it. I have no idea what I'm getting myself into today. Ladies and gentlemen, what you guys are looking at is an outlier. This is one of the very few NBA 2K titles that has released that's well-reviewed. People just started tweeting this at me saying it was better than 2K21 next gen. It's time to start your career. Create the type of player you want to be and take your first steps in the road to the NBA fame and glory. Of course, you can change all his primary generic attributes. We're calling him Antoine Ingram. We'll make him a point guard, left-handed. We'll rock number 30. Okay. Whoa! Hold on here. Whoa, okay. They got different pie charts and they got badges. Again, this system was not perfect when they tried it on console. I imagine it's not going to be perfect here, but I did not expect this. Wow. This is basically NBA 2K20. And now we choose our team. There's no hesitation here, ladies and gentlemen. We're going with the Raptors, baby! I can't tell if I hate this or I like it. Well, here we go. We're playing now. Okay. Let's go up with a shot here. And there's a shot meter in the game. The game is running well. My phone doesn't feel too hot right now, at least not yet. The UI seems intuitive. It seems responsive. Have you ever heard me describe a 2K game as responsive? That has never come out my mouth before. Go up! Go up! Come on, agent! Yeah, baby! Cross this way. Cross back this way, agent. Come on. Do something saucy. Agent, agent, agent. You're... Ooh, I'm in the free-throw line, baby. All right. That's buckets. There we go. Big buckets. And there we go. More buckets. I missed the second one. Oh, my God. I like it. I know my standards is very low, but you guys have to have played the other mobile games they've tried. That's the only reason my standards have gotten this low. So a lot of the same systems in NBA 2K20 are transferring over here. I mean, the teammate grade system exists, as you can see. I've never been much of a mobile gamer and for a lot of reasons. One, like I have dual SIM on my phone so my battery gets drained really quickly when you play games. It drains even faster. But, man, am I genuinely impressed on how this plays right now? Oh, yeah. Blow by, baby. And one, baby. Come on, Pat Flynn. Come at me. I was tempted. I was tempted. What's Duke doing right now? That's true. It's late. What your mom said? What your mom said? There's the black top, which of course, can you play on different courts? Nope. Just one court. And it's called Park, by the way, on the bottom left. Just one court and they called it Park. Just Park. And then probably the park that I'm most excited about always because I'm a multiplayer kind of gal. Multiplayer. You can play online black top. You can play with friends and you can play online NBA. Let's go black top. This game came out about a couple of days ago and it's already had 5,000 reviews and most people are rating it pretty well. But I think where I'm gonna find some fun is when I play online and get to clown some rural people. So hopefully this feature works. Oh, wow. It worked. Oh, connection lost. Okay. Hold on. It's working. I'm readying up. And boom. Reloaded. I'm matchmaking for far too long, 2K. Put me in a game. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I just finally got a game. Bro, this guy's a corn ball. If you saw me choose Embiid, why would you choose LeBron? And then when I chose Tatum, why would you choose? He's a corn ball. All right. I'm about to skunk him. We are alive with it. I can feel the latency given 2K's server status. I almost expect that at this point. Hello. Hello. Hello. What is lagging? Cash. It's a good shot. Oh, my God. Joel Embiid. You gotta get a fucking rebound. It is currently lagging. It is unresponsive. Yanis Anticompo is putting up buckets. All right. Let me do a little Hezzy. Cross this way. Blow by. Take it right to the 10. Yee. Hey, good block. Good block. Throw it up. Throw it up. Throw it up. Why? Why did you do that? I'm lagging. I can't click the buttons. I clicked it an hour ago. Still uncontested according to 2K. Yet the game has become a lot more interesting the second I went online. God, just ooh, good poke. I don't think he's going to shoot at all. I think he's just going to drive the whole time. Give me that. How? Yo, it is very difficult to play considering how bad it's lagging right now. Ronnie, fix your fucking servers. Throw it at you. Throw it at you. And you missed. Please. I need this. I need this. Oh, good rebound. And we out. Oh, yeah, baby. I hate those. I shoot right back. This guy has a goofy corn ball. He has LeBron, Yannis, and AIs guarding me. Green. Green. Green. Green. Good block. Good block. Way to play defense. Good way. Uncontested, by the way. The lag is starting back up. What the hell? Bro, is that a clock? Oh, we got to hit a three. It's lagging in the middle of my shot. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? And he could just hold it for the clock if he's smart. That's what he's going to do. And he wins. All right. Now it's time to compare. This NBA Live has had a mobile game that's been incredibly popular for a very long period of time now. They've pulled in a boatload of cash to the point where their console version is wildly irrelevant. All right. Make some moves. Use the virtual stick to control the direction of your highlighted player and move the blue zones to the court. Oh, my God. Wait, it dribbles. It feels good. Been a minute since I played this game right here. What's next? What's next? This is how you shoot. Two-point jump shot. Press and hold the shoot button. Release once the meter hits. Cash. Hey, although NBA Live feels absolutely horrible on console, not going to lie, the game plaques you feel is pretty smooth on mobile. Run up, run up, run up. Dunk, baby. All right. So that was the quick little tutorial teaching us how to play. Let's begin your NBA franchise. Continue. Let's go with Giannis. Oh, that is not Giannis. I have been bamboozled. Objectives are important tasks to track and complete in NBA Live Mobile. Let's go and take a look at some of the training camps. Gabada, gabada, gabada, gabada, gabada. Look, I got my overall top, my level, some points, some coins, some cash, just like 16 different currencies to choose from. So I know this has been like a huge moneymaker for EA and jumping into mobile, and this is part of the reason why 2K even felt the need to dive into mobile. I don't want to say it's overwhelming, but like, Jesus. Man, what's calm down? Why is there so much? I understand this is probably dope for the people that played us all the time just to level the depth, but like, man, is it a lot? Like, I'm just clicking on one thing. Let's just start off with training camp, click play, let's spend five coins to play. Okay, short three point shooting contest, make as many shots as you can before the time runs out. Got it. And we go. Boom, cash, boom, cash, boom, cash. It's not really that apparent on mobile, nor do I think the people that play mobile really give a f*** about that. I mean, before even really diving deep into this, I could immediately tell that this mobile app is infinitely more deep and probably more fun than the 2K one. Avoid, avoid, avoid. Okay, I can come over here, click pass, boom. Are you kidding me? That is a drill? That is a drill? That's the drill? One more should do it? That's all I gotta do? And then that's it. So after they get you hooked in the process of upgrading and there's millions of challenges and events going on, take what you learned and close out the game with the win against the Mavericks in the fourth quarter. Got it. Okay, defend your lead. All right, all right. I know how to do that. Wow. Is it like aim assist or something? There is. Rebuilds. Good boy. Pass it up, pass it up, pass it up, pass it up, pass it up, pass it up. Heee. Oh, I got stuffed. Okay, I could tell the gameplay is NBA Live now. All right. Well, let's dribble the ball up the court. We're all wearing white jerseys. That's an oversight. It's actually difficult to tell who's doing what at what point. But man, I can't tell this is NBA Live, man. This gameplay will fly for mobile. I'll tell you that much. I'm not pissed at the gameplay at all. Steel. They let me steal that. The difficulty got to be on low right now. You got to be on low. Pass it out, pass it out. Cash. Fake out. You just performed a great tactic to mislead defenders. Thank you for a fake out. I appreciate you letting me know what that was. Hey, hey, the game feels responsive. I know I'm playing offline, so that doesn't mean much, but big blocks in a way. Hey, this NBA Live gameplay is atrocious. I'll let it slide though. Good screen. Good screen. I see you on the cut. All right. Big blocks. All right. Come on, Barrett. What you got? Yes, sir, baby. All right. I guess we won. So I won this challenge as well. Although it was very easy. They gave me a big lead to start off with. Okay. I think it's undoubted why 2K is looking to get into the field. I mean, NBA Live's made a boatload of money off of it. It's clear. It's going to be a good gaming experience on mobile. It's good. I almost feel incentivized to continue grinding even though I'm not a mobile gamer. I just made an improvement to my team and I felt some gratification from doing that. It's clear 2K's advantage is going to be gameplay. The game just feels better than NBA Live by every imaginable metric, both on console and on mobile. And you look at the reviews of NBA Live, man, over 400,000 reviews at 4.7. The people that played the game love it, and anyone who is a mobile gamer that wants to play a basketball experience knows that this is the best way to do it. Well, there's your comparison between the NBA 2K arcade edition available only on iPhones and NBA Live mobile available on Android and iOS. If y'all played both, I want you to leave your comments in the comment section. Let me know which one y'all rocking with more. I think 2K just dropped the core of what can be a good mobile experience if they built on it. I'm curious to see how much attention that the mobile version of the game gets, especially considering like a couple of weeks ago on the channel, I dropped a video explaining how 2K just engulfed a new dev team. So there's hundreds of new developers at 2K's disposal. And I imagine the mobile is going to be part of that focus. Hey, y'all new to the channel, drop a like, subscribe and go ahead click on this video if you need to. But you don't have to though. Remember, you don't have to catch you guys in the next one.