Five star reviews are clear purchased reviews. Gameplay is sluggish and horrid. 2k makes their goal very clear on the title page having massive buttons for mycareer and myteam while relegating everything else to a small corner. They only care about money and tricking kids into buying vc to be like youtubers. Mycareer has been completely watered down into little more than create a player for online games. Everything about your myplayer has been watered down as to make online play more competitive. The actual game is trash and unrealistic with cpu players shooting almost exclusively in peoples faces with little consequences. People acting like its a good game are simply saying they love it to be cool and trendy or they think load times and graphics mean a game is good even though thats a perk of the next gen console, not the game itself.
Edit: you can tell the fake reviews because they say stuff like “2k21 was bad but 22 is so amazing” or “best 2k in years!!” Or “they mailed it in for 21, so glad they tried for 22”. Literally the same phrases repeated by so many reviews because they all got paid by the same ad group. Make no mistake, they didn’t try this year either.
Edit: March 7 still a glitch filled mess of a game with no redeeming factors. Awful gameplay. 2k clearly doesn't care at all about AI and only caters to modes that make them more money despite already having sold a game worth $70.