And DM says on Thunder Rumblings, “ looks pretty sweet to me.” They could be brown burlap sacks with duct tape spelling out “Thunder” across the front with cowboy boots for shoes and Darnell Mayberry would say they “look pretty sweet.” Not saying the game’s jerseys looked bad but they definitely weren’t anything spectacular. That and his extremely awkward NewsOK video commentaries. But I was at the OU game tonight so I missed it. Sucks that Darnell Mayberry beat me to this because I’ve been stalking NBA Live ’09 and 2K9 updates to try and catch a leak. I really want to see “Oklahoma City” on one of the jerseys – I’d prefer both – because it could look good with the player’s number in the middle and “Oklahoma” and top with “City” underneath. Here’s to hoping they don’t use that Microsoft Word ’97 font for “Thunder” like they have on the games. Live’s jersey and 2K9’s are basically the exact same – does that mean the actual duds will look like that or did both gaming companies just come together to have a unified look? I guess we’ll know Monday. No telling if they will be anything like the ones on the game. Similar to NBA Live's DNA system, this allows you to stay up to date with player tendencies and contract moves. The Thunder will actually reveal the real jerseys Monday. Note: NBA 2K9 also touts itself as having Living Rosters. They look like we snuck into the Pepsi Center and pried the Nuggets’ lane right up and trucked it into the Thunderdome. Surely the logo will be at mid-court like that, but the lanes and baselines look so boring. Hopefully that’s not what it will actually look like. So “Thunder” didn’t make it in for the announcers to say – or did it? About three minutes in, Kevin Harlan says, “The THUNDER will bring out some reserves.” So it’s in there. One thing of interesting note from the 2K9 video – the announcer had the cut-in robot voice when he said, “The Chicago Bulls will take on…(voice inflection change, jump cut in sound) and the OKLA- homa CI- ty squad. Well, obviously Live has made the update. I posted about a week ago that it was confirmed that the Thunder would be in NBA 2K9, but we weren’t sure about Live. The game demands a large chunk of your time in order to unlock players and items, but it constantly tempts you with microtransactions in order to skip the long haul.
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NBA 2K, on the other hand, is treading thin ice. Thus, NBA Live has the upper hand in this category. Via Oklahoma City Thunder Forum and the Oklahoman’s Thunder Rumblings, comes NBA Live 2009’s version of OKC’s home jerseys (picture) and NBA 2K9’s (video). EA has learned their lesson (for the most part) about blocking progress behind a paywall after their various scandals and backlash relating to the heavy usage in their games. Well, that is if you think they will actually look like that.