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NBA Live 09
Basketball
EA Sports
HD 720P
X360/PS3/PC,- Wii version to follow.
?44.99 RRP.

After the poor 08 version of Live, EA have imo listened to fans gripes and fixed most of what was wrong in 08 while adding a few new aspects to the game that will elevate this years version back to a AAA Sports title again , with style.

First off, for a small one off fee, you can have daily real life NBA stats for every in game NBA team , downloaded to bring every CPU team to match their real life conterpart, so if a player gets injured in training he'll be come an injured player in the game from the day of his injury and is laid up untill his real life conterpart, becomes fit to play.
Its not only injuries, but bad press, poor games, marriage break up's, in fact anything that happens to effect a players form in the NBA will be reflected realistically in game.
This feature is called NBA 365 ' DNA ' .

New to this years edition is The Academy , which will help school new fans in the game of Basketball and gameplay features.

Gameplay ways this title offers a solid basketball simulation thats suited to all skill levels , basic b'ball with the cpu calling the Plays to to you controlling 2 players for Pick and Roll plays.

The graphics and annimations are very realistic, especially in Hi Def, though imo the X360 has slightly sharper graphics than the PS3 version. This is a minor thing as both console versions look amazing.

While theres nothing here to specialy attract newcommers to the game outside of The States , theres more than enough to attract back those players who jumped to rival basketball game, NBA 2K.Sports.And any new commers who do pick up the game will find it very user friendly in Novice mode and there are plenty of Training drills available should they want ot 'learn' the game and advance to higher levels.

Overall, a quality sports title and a return to No1 Sports games company for EA.
If your looking a serious Basketball game then look no further as NBA LIVE 09 has it all.