NBA Live 09

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Platform: Xbox360

Category: Sports

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Release Date: 10/10/2008

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Number of Players: 1-10

NBA Live 09 Description

NBA Live 09 is back with the best playing basketball videogame in the category that rewrites the book on authenticity and connectivity - but is still accessible enough for new users to get in on the ground floor. New features like Pick and Roll Control, Defensive Lockdown Control, Signature Playcalling and Quickstrike Ankle-Breakers will make the NBA Live experience fun from beginning to end. For those in need of some extra coaching, NBA Live 09 takes you to training camp with the NBA Academy that gives you a chance to hone your skills. NBA Live 09 has rewritten the rules and fundamentally shifted the way you look at sports simulation games. Dynamic DNA emulates - with absolute precision - an NBA player in every sense of the word and it does so dynamically. NBA Live 365 takes the statistical data of Dynamic DNA and brings it to life. NBA Live 09 is now constantly evolving and authentically reflects what you see on the court in your virtual experience. Just like the real NBA game, players get injured, free agents sign late, great players go cold and no-names breakthrough. If you're a sports fan, this is a dream come true - NBA Live 09 is made fresh daily all season long.

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Reviewed by: MJ	Date: 11/10/2008	Rating:
DO NOT RENT THIS GAME. To get the full game you will be required to fork over extra cash. The feature that is stripped unless you pay is the DNA feature (one of the greater improvements) and is only free if you are the first person to play that game. Things like this should not be supported. Simply read this: Now one could argue that this is merely an unfortunate side-effect caused by the measures taken against piracy, but in case of the DNA feature in NBA their intentions are obvious. Buy it new and you'll get the new main feature for free. Buy it used and fork out another 20$ over to EA. This way you will most likely buy it new since it's difficult to find a used game for less than 40$ for quite some time after release, which subsequently earns EA 40$ more per copy sold that way. From a corporate and marketing point of view, the model is brilliant. Instead of no money at all you get from used copies, you get 20$ and might even bring many people to buy a new copy instead of used one, which means even more money. However, that's pretty much the opposite to customer-friendly behaviour and sure will piss many people off who didn't know such mechanisms were in place when they bought the game used.

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