NBA 2K9

NBA 2K9
From 2K Games

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Product Description

The NBA franchise is back for its 10th season. NBA 2K9 is the premier basketball game for serious players, and delivers the most realistic, stylistic, and feature-rich simulation experience ever available in the NBA 2K franchise - from game play to graphics, presentation and online features.

Better Replays & Cut Scenes - End each quarter with enhanced, multiple angle replay highlights, and be rewarded with true-to-life celebration sequences after you capture the NBA championship NBA 2K Online Features - features like 5-on-5 Multiplayer mode with Total Team Control and a new ranking system--from Bench Warmer to Rookie to Pro to Superstar--

shows you how to match up against your opponents 2K Share - Create, upload, and share rosters, sliders, and even players created with the Player DNA feature. This also includes the Reelmaker, where you can direct your own digital video highlight reels and post them on 2KSports.com or your personal web page

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #145 in Video Games
* Brand: 2K Sports
* Model: 710425394829
* Released on: 2008-10-07
* ESRB Rating: Everyone
* Platform: Xbox 360
* Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

* IsoMotion Pro
* Shot Stick Advanced
* Adaptive AI
* All-New Broadcast Team
* Better Replays & Cut Scenes

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description
The NBA franchise is back for its 10th season. NBA 2K9 is for gamers and basketball fans everywhere who want to play a fun, stylistic, and feature-rich NBA simulation. With wholesale improvement across the board – from gameplay to graphics, presentation and online features - NBA 2K9 is the complete package.

GAMEPLAY FEATURES:
• IsoMotion Pro - An improved dribble system delivers more ball-handling control for changing direction crossing up the opposition.
• Shot Stick Advanced - The Shot Stick control system takes it one step further, allowing you to change your shots mid-air.
• Adaptive AI - Adaptive AI will read, react, and adjust in real time to your strategies. Teammates initiate cuts, picks & post-ups based on how you handle the ball, while opponents modify their strategy to fit the pace of the game.
• The Association 2.0 - An all-new interface replicating the NBA.com experience, plus new features like Player Ambitions, a Player Scouting system, new mini-game Development Drills and more customization options for the casual player make this the deepest and most robust Franchise mode on the market.

PRESENTATION FEATURES:
• 2K-HD - Improved facial and skin textures, better uniforms, improved eye movement and more realistic crowd reactions make the game come alive like never before.
• Styles Upon Styles - More Signature Style has been added with new signature shots, free throw routines, dunks and even facial expressions. Watch as Shaq smirks after plays and KG bangs his chest running down court. In addition, new Signature Defensive Styles have been added; Bruce Bowen plays tight all game, Rasheed Wallace steals in the post, and Shane Battier takes charges.
• All-New Broadcast Team - Analyst Clark Kellogg and sideline reporter Cheryl Miller join color commentator Kevin Harland to create one of the most knowledgeable broadcast teams in the game.
• Better Replays & Cut Scenes - End each quarter with enhanced, multiple angle replay highlights, and be rewarded like never before with all-new, true-to-life celebration sequences.

NEW ONLINE FEATURES:
• Team 2K – Put your rep where your mouth is. This feature provides the best online players with the opportunity to be elected to the Team 2K Hall of Fame and put themselves in next year’s game. Each week for 10 weeks the top player will be chosen and receive the 2K Sports royal
treatment, including games, gear, memorabilia and more.
• New NBA 2K Online Features – 2K Sports’ industry leading online service gets all-new features like 5-on-5 Multiplayer mode with Off Ball Control and a new player ranking system - from Bench Warmer to Rookie to Pro to Super-star and all the way up to Team 2K.
• 2K Share - Create, upload and share rosters, sliders and even players created with the all-new Player DNA feature. This also includes the newly revamped Reelmaker, where you can now direct your own digital video highlight reels and post them on 2KSports.com or your personal web page for all the world to watch and admire.
Customer Reviews

DO NOT BUY (Impossible to defend against CPU, weird AI)
I am far from a 2k vet, but from what I have read on the web, most 2k vets seem to be having the same experience as me with the CPU, namely, that it is simply impossible to play consistent defense against the CPU, or to develop a winning strategy that works consistently against the CPU. The inconsistency is mind-boggling. Playing as the Celtics I'll beat the Lakers by 6 in L.A., then lose to Miami by 20 in Miami, with Udonis Haslem and Shawn Marion lighting up my defense.....????

The CPU rarely, if ever, misses a shot, even a well-defended one, though it does go through "dry spells", which seem designed to "get you back in the game". But then, the same defense which produced that "dry spell" stops working, and the CPU splits every double team and manages to produce layup after layup while KG's dunks get rejected by players half a foot shorter than him.

Prior to patching the game with Xbox live, it seemed to play a lot more realistically, but once I got the patch online, the CPU became strange and unpredictable. Sometimes unbeatable, and sometimes horrible. This game sucks. I don't mind losing, but not for no reason. Unless you're HIGHLY skilled, or love to suffer, go elsewhere.

Fun game, sometimes frustrating
NBA 2K9 is a fun game for basketball fans. First of all, I definitely DO NOT recommend that someone pays full retail price ($59.99) for this game if either A) you own another game in the series or B) it is more than 1/2 of the way into the season. That's just the fallacy of sports video games. There will be another coming along very shortly, which puts a shelf-life on the replay value.

As far as the game goes, AI for your teammate drones is terrible in relation to loose balls. Your teammates will just stand aimlessly when rebounds are floating above their heads or batted balls are rolling by their feet. I also believe that WAY too many missed 3-pointers bounce behind the backboard and out of bounds.

There's also these weird positions in the low post where your player will mindlessly shoot the ball and hit the back side of the bacboard. I guess if you can find ways to set up these shots effectively and master the art of directly switching players using the Right Bumper, these problems may be alleviated.

The "Living Roster" feature is great for adjusting rosters when people are traded and adjusting skill levels for developing players. However, I still wish there was a way to use players who are injured in real life. Gameplay is great, with a variety of playcalling, shot selections, etc. It's definitely difficult to turn something so unpredictable as sport into something so mechanic, and this game does an amazing job.

Great game, no more EA sports, its all about the 2K series...
This is going to be sound like a lot of reviews, but here we go; I use to be an dedicated EA sports fan until last year i had some extra cash in the summer, after the basketball season was finish and i bought 2K8 for 20 bucks!! That changed my life with regards to my royalty immediately. Wow ! What have i been missing all these years i asked myself puzzled beyond belief...

So ofcourse i was desperately waiting the release fo the NBA 2K9 to hit the shelves this year. This game is awesome, probably the most realistic game you can own!! It looks like a real basketball game, and i am in total control, its amazing!! Players look and move like there real life counterparts which is what every fans craves... to be his/her favorite player. The controls are numerious but does take some getting used to. You can control every aspect of your offense and defense with out calling a timeout.

I personally had to take time to get used to the dribbling area of this game. It is so life like it's scary. No more EA sports day where you can continue to run around the court until you break into the hole and throw down and unstoppable dunk/layup. One feature i do not like is that the defense is a bit tricky, i am still getting used to it. But all and all this game is hands down the best in the business! I cant imagine how they are going to top this years performence, but be sure i will be at the stores waiting!!!

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