NBA Live 09, sometimes called NBA Live 2009, is the 2008 installment in the NBA Live series, developed and published by Electronic Arts. The original release date was October 7, 2008. The game features Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs on the cover in most markets (this is Parker's second appearance on the cover; he also appeared on the French version of NBA Live 07). The Wii version of the game, developed by HB Studios, is titled NBA Live 09 All-Play and launched under EA Sports' new All-Play brand exclusive to the platform. This was the last NBA Live game released for the PlayStation 2.
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Live 09 is fine. While it does have annoyingly long loading time, the simpler gameplay worked better for a noob like me. It's fairly easy to pick up and play, you have all the licensed teams and players from that year, it's fine. Play NBA Jam or 2K instead though.
I loved drinking spoiled milk with my wife when we played this game. Every time Micheal Beasley would miss a free throw she would hit me with various webkinz
In-game presentation was great, soundtrack was solid, and loved the International teams that weren't present in 2K games at the time. But the gameplay itself was just lacking.
Probably the biggest issue with this game is absolutely pathetic AI, the game has no idea what to do if you just go up the middle, turbo in and go for a lay-up/dunk. Defense is similarly pretty difficult, AI teammates can struggle to keep on the ball at times. The franchise mode is fine, but when you compare it to other games that you could buy it was nothing impressive. It simply lacks the gameplay to be a particularly fun basketball game, you'd be better off buying an older NBA Live game or an NBA 2K game.