(Score 9.4 / 10) 🚨 "Draft Day Sports Pro Basketball 2021 Review - Wolverine Continues to Dominate the Court " (Windows PC) 🏀

[Chris 271]

When it comes to management games, basketball has long been the sport which has suffered the most surprising neglect. There has never been a consistent franchise with the following or the funding of a Football Manager or an Out of the Park Baseball. Basketball fans instead have endured through sporadic releases from an array of small American and European developers. Often these products have been raw, ugly, outdated and lacking in depth.

However, in recent years Wolverine Studios has broken the deadlock. The series has entered a realm that few sports managers can reach after putting together a string of consistently high-quality releases. Last year’s Draft Day Sports Pro Basketball felt like the moment the series truly ascended; ditching the old interface and putting a slick design on a product which was already a deep, realistic, and intuitive experience. This year’s effort has built on that experience and refined it, making DDSPB 21 one of the best management games going around – a messiah for armchair basketball GMs.

When first running the game, you will notice there are four gameplay modes in the main menu: League, Matchup Maker, Multiplayer and Tournament. Matchup Maker allows you to pit any team against another, choosing from a catalogue of squads ranging back to the 76-77 NBA season. Tournament allows you to make a knockout bracket out of those same teams. Both are supplementary inclusions to DDSPB 21’s main experience, the league mode.

There is an impressive suite of customization options available to users when it comes to creating their own personalized league. Different lottery formats, financial models, trading restrictions and scouting limitations – Wolverine makes its game world flexible. These options are incorporated into the four types of leagues that you can run in DDSPB 21. First is the default league which mirrors the NBA and comes with real player names, accurate ratings, and details straight away. There are user mods readily available through the Wolverine Studios forum to give the game all the official logos, team names and images of the NBA as well. All of this makes it quick and easy to setup an authentic NBA world. The second type is a fictional league, giving you fictional players and the ability to choose the number of teams and structure of the league. Then there is the Historical Replay which allows you to begin your career as a manager using any team since the 76-77 season with accurate rosters. Finally, there is the custom roster option where you can take advantage of any rosters created by users.

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