A brand new futuristic sports activities sport has been revealed by 2K Video games. And weirdly, this new sport, Gravity Ball, can be playable in NBA 2K25 later this month as paid DLC.
On October 16, 2K introduced Gravity Ball, a “fast-paced on-line multiplayer sport” that can be accessible by NBA 2K25’s The Metropolis hub as a paid 8$ DLC add-on. Gravity Ball is ready to launch on October 18. Whereas previous NBA 2K video games have featured mini-games, like a kart racer, Gravity Ball seems to be a extra concerned mode that jogs my memory of a number of the video games discovered inside Fortnite, like Competition and Rocket Racing.
In accordance with Visible Ideas president Greg Thomas, Gravity Ball was developed by Visible Ideas South, the identical studio behind final 12 months’s Lego 2K Drive. In a weblog put up, Thomas defined that Gravity Ball began out as a “ardour challenge” on the studio and shortly turned in style internally at Visible Ideas.
“We’ve had a lot enjoyable taking part in amongst ourselves, we knew we would have liked to discover a option to share it with you. Leveraging NBA 2K25’s platform has given us that chance,” stated Thomas.
Thomas described Gravity Ball as a “mashup of American-Gladiators-meets-futuristic-basketball-meets-paintball,” and added that it’s “pure off-the-walls mayhem.”
As for why Gravity Ball exists and can be launched by NBA 2K25, Thomas defined that each sport studio desires to “attempt new issues” and produce “new enjoyable” experiences to gamers.
“Good ideas deserve an opportunity to search out an viewers and shouldn’t die on the reducing room ground. We hope you get pleasure from this sport as a lot as we do and sit up for your suggestions,” stated Thomas.
The response to Gravity Ball has been…not nice. Throughout Twitter and YouTube, many gamers aren’t pleased with paid DLC being added to NBA 2K25 and are additionally upset that the basketball sim wants extra updates and fixes, however is as an alternative getting a DLC sport. There have been additionally some followers who criticized Gravity Ball as 2K desperately making an attempt to show the basketball sport into Fortnite.
Will probably be curious to see if these superfans on social media symbolize the opinions of most NBA 2K25 gamers or if, as is commonly the case, a lot of the sport’s gamers aren’t on-line on a regular basis and can be glad to take a look at Gravity Ball on October 18.
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