The only caveat to Living Rosters is that real-life roster moves will not affect your Franchise. You can turn the option off if you would rather keep your team together in the event management makes a bone-headed move, but for purists, the option is awesome. Whenever big moves happen in the MLB, the next time you play the game, it will update the rosters accordingly. One of the few brand-new options is Living Roster updates. It's missing some features, though there's still a lot of game here. Major League Baseball 2K9 could be considered a bare-bones experience, especially when taken alongside other sports games. Additionally, if something happens on the field while the duo is talking, they will stop their conversation, comment on the play, and then go back to their story. The commentators will reference plays that happened earlier in the game (complete with a video replay), which is really good if you're featured and not that great if it's about the other team.
Commentary is delivered as naturally as current game technology will allow. As far as presentation goes, the commentary is far-and-away one of the best things about MLB 2K9. MLB 2K9 introduces a new broadcast team, Gary Throne and Steve Phillips. Still, MLB 2K9 looks good and will not disappoint. Although the animation is slick, it is still a little too mechanical and smaller player details (such as the "bright" color palette) become a bigger deal than they would otherwise. MLB 2K9 gets eerily close to the uncanny valley the players look great, to the point where there's something just "off" about them. Even the digital incarnation of real-life players are perfect, perhaps to a fault. The camera angles are ripped straight from real television broadcasts and the stadiums are immaculate representations of the real thing (minus the ads). If this was the most important aspect of the game, MLB 2K9 would walk away with a near-perfect score. The "big thing" with sports games is how close it looks to the real thing.
However, like the real thing, the smaller details make the difference. For the most part, 2K Sports' Major League Baseball 2K9 ( MLB 2K9) gets it right, or at least the simple things. Though on the surface it seems like a simple game (that is, if you believe Ebby LaLoosh's good friend), there are a lot of little things going on in the background that make a big difference. Of all the sports turned into videogames, baseball seems to be the hardest to consistently get right.
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