MLB '09: The Show Preview with Screenshots (ESPN Videogames)

[bodhiball]

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all the stuff we can do to add crowd calls and actually turn them into CHANTS is amazing!!!! I am going to have some fun with that!

And not just walk up music, but it sounds like we can play music at certain points in the game (Yankee chimes at a homerun, "O" say can you see at the 7th inning in Baltimore, Dirty Water at a Sox victory)

Have any of you guys decoded what they mean yet when they say the crowd will dress according to the weather, and yet no one has stated that there actually IS weather in the game?


okay...and my ONE dissapointed child complaint....I dont see or hear anything about ACCESSORIES. I know it seems small, but as a big "accurate-roster" guy, I love to be able to really distinguish between the players gear, eye black, glove colors, etc.

With all the new stuff, I can obviously get over it...but accessories would have been awesome.

[zippy2212]

Re: MLB '09: The Show Preview with Screenshots (ESPN Videogames)

Laughing at the plebs on OS getting so excited by a handful of screenies i imagine

My only problem with seeing this is now I don't want to play 08 anymore I want 09!

[Peter_OS]

Re: MLB '09: The Show Preview with Screenshots (ESPN Videogames)

I'm so happy right now!! I'm like a kid at a candy store.

I cannot wait!

[mike75]

Re: MLB 09 Huge Preview and Screens - ESPN

YES YES YES!!!!

Multi-Branch Fielding -- Branch Point Technology goes to a new level as gamers you can now take full control of fielders and break out of any animation in the process. Change a fielding decision and branch out of any animation after the first branch point.

Does this mean we can finaly make a force out at second base?

[ckarlic]

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"PlayMaker Fielding -- Based on fielding attributes, but it's ultimately up to each player to decide how to play to each team's strengths and weaknesses. Excellent fielders will track down the ball for you while sub-par fielders will require some concentration."

Maybe we will see more base hits into the outfield gaps and balls hit over the outfielder's heads and reach.

[mike75]

Re: MLB 09 Huge Preview and Screens - ESPN

That shot is a wow.
That lighting looks incredible.
September call ups...NICE.
Mikey.....I guess you got your field degradation
I hope they got the part about MLB updates in your game wrong to be franchise updates instead....

I'M READY!

M.K.
Knight165

Yep in one of those pics it looks like the chalk lines are indeed fading!

[mike75]

Re: MLB 09 Huge Preview and Screens - ESPN

I think this looks like the best screen. Really shows what the new day lighting system can do for the game.

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I do not see any Ball boys or Ball girls sitting on chairs in that photo

And I wonder if the pitchers are sitting in there bull pens and moving around?

[bodhiball]

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"Additionally, Pitcher Confidence plays a role in a gamer's ability to hit release points in the all-new pitch meter,"

there's an ALL NEW pitch meter??

[The Management]

Re: MLB 09 Huge Preview and Screens - ESPN

I like all the features but it looks exactly the same (lighting aside).

They also got the padding color of the new Yankee Stadium wrong. It's dark blue this year.

I'll wait for some high resolution pics.

[countryboy]

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lol

I got excited when I read about the Waiver wire and Sept callups that I was cheering and dancing in my office, when one my co-workers walked in looked at me, gave a funny look, and walked out.

I tell you what, I was getting jiggy with it.

[baseball88]

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I notice they have markings on the cleats instead of being blank. Too bad they are not nike, reebok, or any others.

I hope they have eye black and glasses for the players that wear them.
I also hope they leave out the blocked out players that we can edit the name of the players for 09. I hope they have the right colors for the uniforms this year especially Cleveland and Atlanta for the dark blues and the red bill on the home batting helmet.

[The Management]

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It'd be cool to randomize the fan action so it's not always "the guy in the blue shirt stands up all over the stadium". I don't mean to have individual actions for all the fans, just randomize who is doing it what. So if you have a bunch of fans standing up folding their arms, it's different people. Just a thought.

[mike75]

Re: MLB '09: The Show Preview with Screenshots (ESPN Videogames)

"PlayMaker Fielding -- Based on fielding attributes, but it's ultimately up to each player to decide how to play to each team's strengths and weaknesses. Excellent fielders will track down the ball for you while sub-par fielders will require some concentration."

Maybe we will see more base hits into the outfield gaps and balls hit over the outfielder's heads and reach.

This is going to make the game so much more fun to play!

I mean not all fielders can cover the same ground so if this new feature really works then we sure wil see more extra base hits!

[BigBlue]

Pretty weird seeing pinstripes and facial hair (Nick Swisher). I know Giambi had the mustache, but I'm pretty sure that Swisher's chin hair will have to go officially.

[michaeldu]

Re: MLB 09 Huge Preview and Screens - ESPN

Wow..

Wow is right. When I first saw this screen, I thought someone was being stupid and slipped a real pic in. Than I went to the actual article and saw it there. That is one sweet shot!