NBA.com will offer updates on everything from scores to trade rumors, which gives us the feeling that sports videogames might end up becoming one-stop shops for fans in the coming years, where gamers can read up on their favorite team, run their fantasy league, buy game tickets and even watch games in real time without having to switch to their TV or laptop. Other new online features include five-on-five online play for the Xbox 360 (only eight players could play at the same time in NBA 2K8) and 2K Share, where gamers can share stuff like rosters, sliders, players and highlight clips.Īnother area where NBA 2K9 will branch out is in its utilization of NBA.com in The Association 2.0. Since the NBA's regular season doesn't start until November it's impossible to test any online updating feature based on real-life player performance, so obviously we weren't able to see Living Rosters in action. Living Rosters might be something that adapts throughout the season however, since the Insider will have his own blog and will respond to user feedback. Living Rosters is updated weekly by a real person called the NBA 2K Insider, so it will be interesting to see if there's a difference between NBA 2K9 and NBA Live 09 in terms of how quickly player and team attributes get updated. So if Miami Heat rookie Michael Beasley starts scoring the way he did at Kansas St., he'll have some new moves in his repertoire which may make gamers more likely to play as the Heat in NBA 2K9. When players start to torch the opposition in real life, new animation packages will unlock for that player in NBA 2K9.
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Living Rosters will update player and team tendencies, as well as trades and other roster moves, in similar fashion to NBA Live 09's Dynamic DNA, but with a twist (or a killer crossover, if you will). With the new Living Rosters feature, it looks like NBA 2K9 has no plans on standing pat. In its tenth season, in the face of Dynamic DNA, will NBA 2K9 be able to reload and repeat as champions yet again? Now NBA Live 09 is going into next season with its version of a healthy Andrew Bynum after announcing the new Dynamic DNA feature, which will allow player tendencies and achievements to be updated every day of the NBA season to provide up-to-the-moment realism.
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For years, NBA 2K has won gamers over with more realistic gameplay, which has been as dependable an advantage for the series as the strong defense and "Ubuntu" philosophy the Celtics employed last year to throttle the offensive-minded Lakers in June's NBA Finals. After the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, the NBA's premier rivalry just might take place in the videogame realm between Visual Concepts' NBA 2K and EA's NBA Live.