SirPoonga
Shared on Mon, 04/24/2006 - 13:54I have a semi-review on the forum of this. I had to return it :(
Quick summary:
I am going to buy this game. Its a solid baseball game. I has a great presentation, along with good pitching and batting controls. The graphics are a little lacking but gameplay in a sports title is much more important. Heck, I still play NHL 93/94 for the genesis.
The problem with baseball games is they are constantly coming up with something new that usually sucks. There have been many pitching and batting schemes through out the history of baseball video games. With this installment of MLB they added a new physics engine - Pure Motion Physics. It effects everything in the game and for the most part is pretty good. However it seriously lacks in fielding.
The problem with fielding is the physics to change direction are horribly slow. Say you are running but want to change direction by 90 degrees. In real life you plant your foot and pivot. In the game you do a sweeping turn, which in some cases will sweep you around where the baseball is going to land. Ive had two ground rule doubles happen because of that when it should have been an out. This is a huge problem when fielding a fly that is going to land betweent he infield and outfield. The computer will have an infielder selected. So you are running back. But then the computer decides the outfielder is the better choice ans switches you. Well, now since you are push back you bring the outfielder to a halt. The animation for this and to speed back up is very slow.
Diving is also wierd. You can dive for a ball, you player will be in the circle where the ball is going to land, but it will bounce off the players back. Ouch! You really have to time your dives perfectly in order make a catch. You can not even be off by an arms length.
Quick summary:
I am going to buy this game. Its a solid baseball game. I has a great presentation, along with good pitching and batting controls. The graphics are a little lacking but gameplay in a sports title is much more important. Heck, I still play NHL 93/94 for the genesis.
The problem with baseball games is they are constantly coming up with something new that usually sucks. There have been many pitching and batting schemes through out the history of baseball video games. With this installment of MLB they added a new physics engine - Pure Motion Physics. It effects everything in the game and for the most part is pretty good. However it seriously lacks in fielding.
The problem with fielding is the physics to change direction are horribly slow. Say you are running but want to change direction by 90 degrees. In real life you plant your foot and pivot. In the game you do a sweeping turn, which in some cases will sweep you around where the baseball is going to land. Ive had two ground rule doubles happen because of that when it should have been an out. This is a huge problem when fielding a fly that is going to land betweent he infield and outfield. The computer will have an infielder selected. So you are running back. But then the computer decides the outfielder is the better choice ans switches you. Well, now since you are push back you bring the outfielder to a halt. The animation for this and to speed back up is very slow.
Diving is also wierd. You can dive for a ball, you player will be in the circle where the ball is going to land, but it will bounce off the players back. Ouch! You really have to time your dives perfectly in order make a catch. You can not even be off by an arms length.
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