Remember Kevin Durant's UGLY NBA 2K9 model? Well NBA Live 09's is worse (PS2)

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Remember Kevin Durant's UGLY NBA 2K9 model? Well NBA Live 09's is worse (PS2)

Postby boxMAN29 on Tue Jun 24, 2025 5:04 am

This has got to be the worst video game model of Kevin Durant I have ever seen in a video game, this is from the PS2 version of NBA Live 09, this is actually even worse than his NBA 2K9 appearance, they didn't even try to make it look like KD, when I first saw this, I was absolutely DISGUSTED that they did KD like this, it doesn't look like him at all, looks a little bit like Greg Oden (especially the forehead) and eyes and mouth look nothing like KD's, unlike NBA 2K9 and like NBA Live 08, he has no portrait, Lemme know what you think.

NOTE: KD is on the Oklahoma City Thunder by default (oddly genericized as the Oklahoma City Team in this game) but I have him on the Houston Rockets in the screenshots below to reflect his recent trade to the Rockets and even have him wearing a San Diego Rockets throwback in one of the pics just for fun.

I understand this is PS2 but this is pretty bad for the console as well, they could have done a LOT better.

Hope you enjoy my discussion about Kevin Durant's lackluster NBA Live 09 PS2 appearance.

Screenshots taken in PCSX2.

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Re: Remember Kevin Durant's UGLY NBA 2K9 model? Well NBA Live 09's is worse (PS2)

Postby Andrew on Tue Jun 24, 2025 12:27 pm

He's had some pretty bad in-game likenesses over the years, that's for sure.
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Re: Remember Kevin Durant's UGLY NBA 2K9 model? Well NBA Live 09's is worse (PS2)

Postby boxMAN29 on Tue Jun 24, 2025 1:37 pm

Andrew wrote:He's had some pretty bad in-game likenesses over the years, that's for sure.


Yeah, and this is his absolute WORST, looks very generic too.

His render in 2K9 actually looks like they tried while this one looked like they didn't even try at all.
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