NBA Playgrounds thankfully is a fully licensed game and includes players of past and present. You will find great NBA players such as LeBron James and Stephen Curry along with retired players like Magic Johnson, Wilt Chamberlain and Playgrounds cover athlete Allen Iverson.

If you liked NBA Jam you'll like this; Offers some nice quick fun; Fully licensed roster

Design is very simplistic; Online modes are lacking; Offline modes needs more content

NBA Playgrounds is an arcade basketball game out now on Nintendo Switch. It offers two versus two basketball matches with any combination of your favourite players. You unlock new players by opening card packs, earned by levelling up.

2K Sports is getting absolutely brazen with their community, testing the limits of what they'll put up with in terms of microtransactions in 2K18. Thankfully it doesn't persist into every mode, because there's a lot of good ones to compliment the excellent gameplay and presentation.

I really admire Visual Concepts' tenacity. Year after year, they try to blow the doors off sports gaming with an amazing basketball sim-one that raises the bar and gets EA scrambling to keep up. Of the Big Three sports sims-NBA 2K, Madden, and FIFA-NBA 2K is easily the most ambitious.

is a brilliantly flawed basketball game held back by its blatant product placement and a career mode centred on aggressive microtransactions.

Nintendo console owners who enjoy sports sims have rarely had the chance to scratch that itch on the company's recent platforms. Outside of some first-party arcade sports games, options on the Wii and Wii U ranged between subpar to nonexistent.

This is a truly amazing Switch port. I downloaded it on day one and have put in over 30 hours so far. Amazing graphics and gameplay and truly no shortcuts have been taken to bring it to the Switch. It puts Fifa to shame.

Note: We originally posted our NBA 2K18 review last month but the game was essentially broken, with a number of serious game-affecting bugs. It was so severe that we were unable to give the game a score, because we considered it incomplete.

I've really enjoyed it. Yes there's been annoying bugs, but most have now been ironed out apart from a few (none of which are game breakers). Gameplay and graphics are decent and overall it's been an enjoyable game to play. Currently 65+ hours put into the game...

This review isnt because of the switch... this game I have played on both ps4 and nintendo switch and i have to say it us such a broken basketball game that uts borderline ridiculous.