NBA 2K18 Legend Edition Featuring Shaquille O'Neal Announced
Shaquille O'Neal, who has appeared in the previous three editions of NBA 2K because the co-host of its pregame show, returns for the game's cover inside a particular edition of NBA 2K18 when it launches on Sept. 19, 2K Sports announced right now.
The announcement confirmed the basketball simulation's launch date and platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3, PC, and Xbox One particular and Xbox 360.
The NBA 2K18 Legend Edition may be the third NBA 2K cover for the Major Aristotle, whose past covers had been NBA 2K6 and NBA 2K7. Other lifetime achievements involve getting named a deputy U.S. Marshal, as well as a reserve police officer with departments in California, Louisiana, Arizona and Florida.
I want to thank NBA 2K for their continuous assistance of my basketball and broadcast profession," Shaq mentioned, in a statement you will be now reading (in conjunction with the rest of this story) in his voice. "I'm excited to become around the cover in the NBA 2K18 Legend Edition, and I hope my fans possess a blast playing it up big-man style."
The cover depicts Shaq in the course of his eight-year run with all the Los Angeles Lakers, where he led the team to 3 NBA championships. O'Neal also played for Orlando, Miami, Phoenix, Cleveland and Boston in his 19-year career.
The NBA 2K18 Legend Edition will include a bunch of virtual goodies and a few physical collectibles. Buyers will get 100,000 Virtual Currency, which blings (a term Shaquille O'Neal helped popularize, btw) out players within the MyCareer mode. Yet another 20 card packs in MyTeam (the collection/fantasy sports game mode) will probably be doled out weekly, at the same time as "Shaq in-game items" along with other stuff.
The physical items incorporate a Shaq poster, 5 Panini trading cards and stickers. Individuals who upgrade to a Gold edition from the box get every little thing, plus 5 extra trading cards, a lenticular card, 150,000 further VC (to get a total of 250,000), and 20 much more weekly card packs (for any total of 40).
Both editions grant early access to NBA 2K18 beginning Sept. 15. That's the Friday preceding the Sept. 19 launch date for all. The Legend Edition is $99.99; the Legend Edition Gold is often a bling-blingy $149.99.
O'Neal, a 2000 graduate of Louisiana State University, can also be a three-time NBA Finals MVP and four-time NBA champion, and in 2016 was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. O'Neal was named one of the 50 greatest NBA players of all time in 1996, which was then only his fifth season in the league. He is broadly considered on the list of greatest college and professional basketball players ever.
The announcement confirmed the basketball simulation's launch date and platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3, PC, and Xbox One particular and Xbox 360.
The NBA 2K18 Legend Edition may be the third NBA 2K cover for the Major Aristotle, whose past covers had been NBA 2K6 and NBA 2K7. Other lifetime achievements involve getting named a deputy U.S. Marshal, as well as a reserve police officer with departments in California, Louisiana, Arizona and Florida.
I want to thank NBA 2K for their continuous assistance of my basketball and broadcast profession," Shaq mentioned, in a statement you will be now reading (in conjunction with the rest of this story) in his voice. "I'm excited to become around the cover in the NBA 2K18 Legend Edition, and I hope my fans possess a blast playing it up big-man style."
The cover depicts Shaq in the course of his eight-year run with all the Los Angeles Lakers, where he led the team to 3 NBA championships. O'Neal also played for Orlando, Miami, Phoenix, Cleveland and Boston in his 19-year career.
The NBA 2K18 Legend Edition will include a bunch of virtual goodies and a few physical collectibles. Buyers will get 100,000 Virtual Currency, which blings (a term Shaquille O'Neal helped popularize, btw) out players within the MyCareer mode. Yet another 20 card packs in MyTeam (the collection/fantasy sports game mode) will probably be doled out weekly, at the same time as "Shaq in-game items" along with other stuff.
The physical items incorporate a Shaq poster, 5 Panini trading cards and stickers. Individuals who upgrade to a Gold edition from the box get every little thing, plus 5 extra trading cards, a lenticular card, 150,000 further VC (to get a total of 250,000), and 20 much more weekly card packs (for any total of 40).
Both editions grant early access to NBA 2K18 beginning Sept. 15. That's the Friday preceding the Sept. 19 launch date for all. The Legend Edition is $99.99; the Legend Edition Gold is often a bling-blingy $149.99.
O'Neal, a 2000 graduate of Louisiana State University, can also be a three-time NBA Finals MVP and four-time NBA champion, and in 2016 was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. O'Neal was named one of the 50 greatest NBA players of all time in 1996, which was then only his fifth season in the league. He is broadly considered on the list of greatest college and professional basketball players ever.
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