However, if you're dribbling quickly around the court, your players tend to stand and watch. Provided you're not moving around too much, your teammates will move around and do a decent job of making themselves open. Players will fight through screens, dive for loose balls, come flying out of nowhere to tip in a rebound, and show emotion after a big play. It's uncanny how closely the video game mirrors the real NBA at times. Nobody's ever going to say that up-to-date rosters aren't a good thing, but as far as being touted as the game's biggest feature, living rosters are underwhelming. If a player is on a hot streak, for instance, the Insider will bump up his ratings accordingly until he cools off if a rookie turns out to be a ridiculous dunker, the living rosters will be updated to reflect his prowess. But if things go as planned, roster moves are just one way living rosters will affect the game.
At the time of this review only one roster update had been released, and it consisted solely of roster moves. All decisions on rosters and ratings are made by a single person known as the 2K Insider. Living rosters are frequent updates you can download throughout the season to make sure your rosters are up to date. Let's start with what's new.or kind of new. One year 2K Sports is going to get free throws just right. Key additions such as more frequent roster updates and the ability to play five-on-five online are relatively minor and will probably appeal mainly to hardcore hoopsters, but thanks to time-tested gameplay and a mind-boggling number of play modes, NBA 2K9 is rock solid yet again. NBA 2K6 was great, NBA 2K7 was great, NBA 2K8 was great, and-you guessed it-NBA 2K9 is great as well.