MLB Power Pros Gameplay Question Thread

[tjspeaks]

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I second this one. For years I've hated how the baseball games don't show the out of ballpark dingers. The joy of watching your home run land is almost as much fun as hitting it.

In this game you can hit the buildings outside wrigley, the cars outside Shea and Dodger stadium. I'm still trying to land one in the pool at Chase field to see what happens. Heck I even hit a moving bus outside of Wrigley. That was very cool.

Kudos to Konami and 2k...

Do you need to change a setting to see this? I just see the home runs land in the stands, even in home run derby.

[clambrou]

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Do you need to change a setting to see this? I just see the home runs land in the stands, even in home run derby.

Make sure your field camera is set to FOLLOW. Also in home run derby, after hitting the ball press the down arrow on the wii controller. You can actually change the camera while the ball is in flight by pressing any direction but down is the best to see the out of park landings.

It was nice to actually hit the lights on top the green monster and see the ball bounce back instead of just dissapear like in other games.

[falcons2003]

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Make sure your field camera is set to FOLLOW. Also in home run derby, after hitting the ball press the down arrow on the wii controller. You can actually change the camera while the ball is in flight by pressing any direction but down is the best to see the out of park landings.

It was nice to actually hit the lights on top the green monster and see the ball bounce back instead of just dissapear like in other games.

hold in the A button on the wii controller that will give you a zoomed in camera on the ball.

[JKGuy16]

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Is it possible to play with two humans on the same team against the CPU in Season mode?

I've been looking for a great baseball game since MVP 2005 and this looks like it is it.

[falcons2003]

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-Two things that are concerning me after more playing

1) CPU striking out way too much on the higer levels (All Star, PowerPro)

2) Very easy to steal a base with a fast runner.

[chigator15]

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Hey Guys,

I notice that sometimes when a ball is hit, the wrong fielder is selected. Is there a button that you can press that will select the fielder closest to the ball? thanks

[bcruise]

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Hey Guys,

I notice that sometimes when a ball is hit, the wrong fielder is selected. Is there a button that you can press that will select the fielder closest to the ball? thanks

On PS2 it's the L1 button, but I'm not sure how that corresponds to the Wii. Also, you can lock the fielding cursor on one player by pressing R1, so it won't auto switch on you.

[bluengold34_OS]

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Just a little heads up about the purchases in the shop. The 50,000 point item right below the "use arrange team in season" is useless. You get to play a game while watching the credits roll. You have a batter and you are in a random MLB park, the credits come at you from all directions and you swing the bat and knock baseballs into the names to score points. I scored like 52,000 points and I thought," here it is, the really easy way to score points and unlock everything" you don't get to keep those points and they can be applied to nothing, don't waste your points

[blackpuppy]

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Made a wall crashing jump and robbed a homerun!!! It was soo cool. He ended up kinda sitting on the ground with his back to the wall and holds up the ball!

[JoeMimic]

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Made a wall crashing jump and robbed a homerun!!! It was soo cool. He ended up kinda sitting on the ground with his back to the wall and holds up the ball!

It's great isn't it? I love how you can't go all gung ho diving into walls anymore. Guys will get hurt or knock themselves silly and be stunned with stars circling their head for a few seconds before they finally regain composure.

[elguapo79]

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Dumb question -- is there any way to increase a lead without just selcting steal?

The book said something about not stealing too early, but no matter when I press up+B, the runner never goes until the pitcher is in the windup. Never had the occasion that the pitcher picks off when I've selected steal, however.

But I miss the leading off aspect of baseball gaming from high heat. It was done really well with manual leads and manual getting back on pickoffs.

[falcons2003]

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Two more observations after extended time with thsi game:

1) CPU still strikes out way too much. CPU hitting on All Star and Power, and alot of the outs I get are strike outs. You can pretty much just groove them too, as long as you switch pitches. Just wish the CPU didn't K so much

2) The spirits aren't very reflective of the game. Webb's face turned happy and bouncing after the dude got lit for 6 runs in two innings.

[falcons2003]

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Two more things to add:

1) CPU doesn;t seem to hit many Hr's. They just nickel and dime their way to runs.

2) CPU tried a suicide squeeze on me!!! The batter missed and the runner was meat at the plate.

[ComfortablyLomb]

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Two more things to add:

1) CPU doesn;t seem to hit many Hr's. They just nickel and dime their way to runs.

2) CPU tried a suicide squeeze on me!!! The batter missed and the runner was meat at the plate.

I've seen the AI bunt for a hit out of the blue. It surprised the heck out of me and it worked too.

As for HRs, I'm giving up a few. You should probably see about one per game on average, maybe less. HRs were WAY down this year. League averages this year were 161 HR per team in the AL and 169 HR per team in the NL. The two biggest HR park effect parks were CIN and PHI I think.

[blackpuppy]

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Is it time to make a list of the things we want fixed for next year?