While perhaps not the megaton announcement that we have all been awaiting from 2K, this is still some news in the midst of a drought of information regarding NBA 2K9. EB Games in Australia has put out their NBA 2K9 covers on store shelves today and the back of the box features can clearly be seen below. What is surprising is that these could be displayed before 2K has even officially announced or gone into much depth regarding some of these things like the Online Hall of Fame and Signature Defensive Styles. Check out the screens below to see for yourself what you can expect from the…box, of NBA 2K9.

The features listed are:

* Living Rosters - You’ll never be late on a trade again. Automatic updates by the hour guarantee you’re playing with the most current roster and the hottest stars.

* 2K HD - Breathtaking action in full HD resolution brings you radically improved facial textures and eye movement, true-to-life crowd reactions and celebration sequences and much more!

* Styles upon Styles - New Signature Defensive Styles and more Signature Shots, dunks and free throws give you EVEN MORE distinctive player styles.

* Team 2K - Prove you’re one of the ten best online players to earn a spot in the Hall of Fame, receive limited edition memorabilia and get your name in next year’s game.

Looking closely it can be seen that the box clearly shows 2-12 players online and co-op play for 2-6 players. This could be quite significant in the fact that Online play looks like it will allow each team to field one sub to warm the bench, and watch the game from the pine.

Going a bit further it is noticed that 2Ks website shows a discrepancy on the case where it reads 2ksports.au it should read 2ksports.com.au. This along with a spelling error in the actual features are small but noticeable discrepancies, but we have no reason to doubt the validity of this case at all.

* Photos courtesy of ITALYN over at the 2K Sports forums who had the thought to snap these pics.

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