NBA 2k9
A late-2000s basketball sim with sharp signature animations and a PC port that never got the love the console versions did. Great hoops, rough packaging.
GamerScout Verdict
Worth it for offline franchise diehards who want late-2000s NBA rosters and can stomach a dated PC port.
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About NBA 2k9
NBA 2K9 wants your patience before it hands you anything. The isomotion dribbling system does not care that you can hold a stick in a direction, and the shot timing is unforgiving until you stop mashing and start reading defenders' hips. Give it a few nights and it clicks: post play has weight, passing lanes feel earned, and the signature animations make Kobe-era stars actually move like themselves. The Association mode is the reason to stay, a deep enough franchise layer that trades, rotations and player progression turn into a season-long side hobby. Where it disappoints is everything around the basketball. This was the first PC entry in years and it plays like a port made on a schedule: menus built for a controller, presentation that repeats commentary lines within a quarter, and defensive AI that occasionally forgets help rotations exist. Online play is long dead. Treat it as an offline franchise sim and it holds up better than its age suggests. Treat it as a modern 2K and you will bounce off the interface before the fourth quarter.
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Pentium 4 or Athlon XP. RAM: 1 GB. OS: Windows XP. VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon X1300. FREE DISK SPACE: 11 GB. DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 128 MB.
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- Developer
- 2K Games
- Publisher
- 2K Sports
- Release Date
- Oct 17, 2008