Major League Baseball 2K9 Teaser Trailer #2

[bigfnjoe96]

Not bad..

[CarryTheWeight]

Is this the first time a LOVERBOY song has been licensed in a videogame?

...other than that, good stuff all around. IMO, the graphics seem like they're somewhere in between 2K7 and 2K8. Additionally, I'll go out on a limb and say that the commentary in this trailer rivals The Show...but how will it sound in-game?

Well, it sure seems improved. Gameplay videos and a demo should either verify or nullify that thought down the road.

[SuperKyle]

As a Tampa resident and Rays fan, I'm glad they finally updated the Trop! We changed video-boards 3 years ago, and that's just now in. Same for the LED lights on the 2nd deck in left. Retired numbers = check. Giant Upton jersey above left center = check. City of St. Petersburg welcomes you = check. I gotta tell you, every time I played a Rays home game on 2k8, I was bummed by the old Trop. Just think: If they've finally nailed my stadium, do you think they've fixed the rest, too?

And one more thing: LET'S GO RAYS!
Can't wait for the digital and real seasons to begin.

[SFGiantsPBA]

I'm loving it it but after one review of how hitting is much easier and homers are allot then a trail come out of load and behold a homer it looks like SFGiantsPBA will be busy working on sliders soon but even last year it was hard to tune down homers so all I'm saying is they better tighten up hitting or this game will be to arcade.

[DaveDQ]

Thorne has a way of treating his videogame commentary as if it were the actual thing. He just gets it. Collinsworth in Madden does the same thing. I thought Miller and Morgan did this too, making it very "lifelike."

To me, this is 2K Sports/Visual Concepts. Maybe I'm just too giddy about them giving it back to Visual Concepts but the atmosphere is there, and that's a big part of making a sports game deep and enjoyable.

[Scooter3]

My uncle was a genius and a great body & fender man.
His favorite quote was " Making honey out of Dog $**t"

He could take any car no matter how mangled it was and transform it into a new car...

I remember the disaster the 2K Baseball series has been over the last several years but that's all over now!
VC has taken over and transformed this game!

I will have two games this year!
Scooter....

[King Gro23]

Yea beckett looks grimy

[drterb]

Overall, The trailer is great!! A lot of promising signs...

• Crowd looks good, definitely an improvement
  
• Animations look solid
  
• Thorne sounds amazing
  
• The upgrade to The Trop is awesome!! They even got the dirt circle around home plate being a different color correct!!!!!
  
• Gross & Price standing on the edge of the dugout (Real-Time Atmosphere)
  
• Pena twitching his fingers leading off from second
  
• After Strike 1 was called, the crowd responded appropriately
  
• First two bat sounds were great, the last bat sound sounds like it was recycled from 2k5-2k8 (boooooo!)
  
• The crowd going for the home run ball
  
• Boston's '09 away jersey is correct (I say this because they had it incorrect in 2k5 & 2k6 I believe)
  
• You can actually hear the umpire call strike. In 2k8, the ump usually mumbled some unintelligible phrase to give you the count instead of whether it was a ball or a strike.

Nitpick a few things....

• ALCS Game 2, Crowd should have started going nuts when the bat made contact. They stood up after contact (good) and then you heard a decent sound level increase when it cleared the wall. Granted, it did sound like some things might have been specially mixed at the end since they did 4 different views of contact, but I want the deafening crowd noise of playoff baseball. If done properly, they should continue being loud into the next at bat. The only game I've seen this done right is NCAA Football '09 and I think '05 or '06.
  
  Don't get me wrong, it's still a definite improvement over 2k8 with the crowd noise.
  
• The hat logos are too big and look painted on...
  
• Will every pitcher open their mouth before releasing the ball?? It would be nice to see a few different expressions right before the release.