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The staff praised the developers for maintaining the quality gameplay of its predecessor while adding online, new settings, and a Franchise mode. Game Informer ranked it at 95 on its top 100 video games of all-time list. Rob Smolka reviewed the Dreamcast version of the game for Next Generation, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "Highly recommended, but frankly, we were expecting a lot more based on the improvement of NFL 2K1 over NFL 2K." The game was a runner-up for GameSpot's annual "Best Multiplayer Game" and "Best Sports Game (Traditional)" awards among console games, which went to Quake III Arena and NFL 2K1, respectively. This edition also includes NBA 2K22 for PlayStation5 - A New Generation NBA 2K Experience. The online game service builds on 2K Sports award-winning basketball simulation franchise in an exciting MMO format, matching an engaging NBA 2K simulation gameplay with entirely new RPG activities, such as character personalization, quests and achievements. The game received "universal acclaim" according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. NBA 2K Online is being co-developed by Tencent and 2K Sports in Shanghai.