
James' decision sparks other teams to aggressively go for their own Big 3 in hopes of championship gold, creating some wild teams. It is here that the developers decided to let their fantasies go wild. The other choice is more exciting, as you make him a journeyman of sorts, going from team to team as he reaches for that elusive goal. The first is to simply let LeBron resign from the Heat, an easy and straightforward approach. While the main goal is to help him get more championship rings than Michael Jordan by the end of his career, you're given the choice of two different paths. Path to Greatness revolves around cover athlete LeBron James and how his contract with the Miami Heat will be up by the end of this season. Visual Concepts has always toyed around with highlighting one new mode every year to renew the franchise focus, and this year, it decided to do a story mode. For them, NBA 2K14 remains a great game, even though it's released during the dreaded game transition period.

Despite record-selling numbers for the new machines, there are still millions of console owners who haven't made the transition yet.

History looks to repeat itself with NBA 2K14, but some fans may be interested in what the game is able to accomplish on the prior hardware generation. The last time 2K Sports provided console launch titles was with NBA 2K6, an effort that blew away what NBA Live 06 had done on the Xbox 360 and raised the expectations of sports.
