Major League Baseball 2K9 Hands-On Preview (Gamespy)

[Steve_OS]

Gamespy has posted their hands-on preview of Major League Baseball 2K9.

Quote:

"There were a couple more pitching modifications. First, pulling the right trigger will lock the location of your pitch on the screen but still allow you to move your target anywhere in or out of the zone, meaning your opponent won't be able to lock into a specific location. Another change we liked revolved around the men in blue, the ones who usually sport a pot belly and a quick temper. Nobody goes to a baseball game to watch the umpires, and MLB 2K9 looks to feature a more uniform strike zone than before. This should be a nice change, as it's rather frustrating to throw a pitch that looks like a strike and have it called a ball simply because a particular umpire has his own unique strike zone to memorize."

[SoxFan01605]

Every review...

Chugging framerate, better commentary, dumbed down controls (apparently dumbed down umps too, according to this), the end.

I give up on these early reviews...lol. I need to see the game finished and in motion before I can say anything for sure...but I'm worried that "our guests seemed surprised by the poor framerate in the demo they brought over" means that they are unaware of what might be the source of their framerate issue.

We'll see...

[NumberOneRB]

We gotta get this game in the hands of OS pronto...

[brendanrfoley]

Once again, concerns about the framerate. I've gone from high hopes to measured dread in about 24 hours.

I hope the next 24 hours bring better news.

[bodhiball]

what is the point of these "reviews" other then just a recap of what 2k9 has already releases as their feature list?

Each one of these say they "played" the game, but none of them tell what that was like, how it looked, how the announcing was,....anything really. (except the bad frame rate)

[NumberOneRB]

They must not be allowed to reveal too much about the gameplay, or its just very generic writing on their part (I'll go with the former).

[JohnDoe8865]

What is with the freakin frame rate? I know it's not a final build, but after last year you'd think that they would be all over that issue.

[jeffy777]

Oh great, now one of the 2K mods is locking threads that mention the framerate problem:
http://2ksports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=204201

Hopefully, it's just that one mod's twitchy finger and not anything more serious.

I still think the VC devs will get it worked out, but it doesn't help that we can't even talk about it on the 2K forum......