If last year’s disappointing
Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff was not evidence enough,
NBA Unrivaled should help confirm what Tecmo fans have been angrily realizing for the last decade: The company has no idea how to update its classic sports franchises for modern consoles.
In
Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff there were too few updates to the dated portions of the game's old-school formula. In
NBA Unrivaled the developers not only ignored the existing flaws in the source material, but also eliminated the strengths that made
Tecmo NBA Basketball an 8-bit/16-bit legend.
NBA Unrivaled has been removed from its simulation roots and turned into the equivalent of a low-budget, Saturday-morning cartoon.
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