Some of the historic teams have been worsened; no more Monta Ellis on the '07 Warriors, leaving them with only six players. Random players added like Michael Doleac to the '06 Heat; personally excited that Drew Gooden was added to the '07 Cavs. Disappointed it appears they didn't add any more historic teams.
The first thing I did was start MyTEAM so I could redeem the free code currently out (got 10K MT with it), but the first thing I actually did for fun was take Brandon Roy into shootaround; disappointed Agent 0 isn't on the All-Time Wizards yet, as he's been confirmed for MyTEAM. Don't like how most of the historic players like Roy have generic 2K shoes; in a perfect world, Roy wouldn't be a 'historic' player. Feels wrong saying that. His face is pretty much perfect; I don't know why they didn't include it in the MyTEAM trailer.
Random gripe is that triangle/Y is still inconvenient to choose uniforms, as you have to go all the way around again if you pass up the one you want.
They added the Rondo tipoff "mucking around" ritual for more players than just him (every PG might do it).
Really, really cool stuff that Jackson Ellis and ATM are on the opposing G-League team in MyCAREER, and the commentators referenced he worked his way up from street-ball events.
And it took a minute for me to process that there are different commentators for the G-League games; people might accuse 2K of being greedy, but little stuff like that makes me fall in love with them.
I went to do the MyCAREER MyTEAM card thing and the guy handed my guy my card which was invisible and my guy was like "Wow, this is dope"... I have no idea what happened.
Overall, I had a really good first day with the game. I spent more time on the park than anything and got off to a really good start (8-2) using a player I had doubts about (rebounding defender). The day/night cycle is super charming, especially when it's dark out but the sun is rising so half the court is blinding (not being sarcastic).
One of the more lame things is only one person can use the Ante-Up daily spin wheel at a time, kind of calling back to Andrew's article of 2K replicating real-life hassles that could be avoided in-game. Everything from 2K18 has been repurposed: the apartment is exactly the same, but most everything is done through the menus and better (like the closet is still there, but it has no purpose since you change clothes via the menu). A tiny chunk of the subway is used to visit friend's parks. I didn't try the Under Armour cages, and I have no clue where or how dodgeball will be played.
The only truly broken thing so far is exporting your MyPlayer to MyTEAM, which to be fair, I should've tried my player in MyTEAM's freestyle to see if it was actually him. I uploaded him at a 75, and he was an 80 MyTEAM, proving that MyCAREER players are worse than NBA. The card art is just some generic player in a pose I didn't choose, with the name just being my build; again, should've really tried in freestyle to see if it actually worked.
The Neighborhood is now a concise "storefront wrapping around park" type thing (something I recommended on OS [they always take my recommendations, though I doubt someone at 2K actually read that]), but there's a lot of alleys and stuff behind stores that has no purpose; like I guess it's fine, but I wanted to explore every inch of the Neighborhood when I got there, and it was just a waste of time. Like it's just pallets, picnic tables, dumpsters and umbrellas.