Hands-on at Gamespot

[baa7]

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??? He says right in his last post that they were correct in saying this is how it works. It was the batting comment that he said was incorrect.

Oops, sorry - thought Trev was talking about the hitting.

[dodgerblue]

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Wow, anyone notice the shots of LA-PHILLY? Looks great but it might be time for Torre to go to the pen!

[Trevytrev11]

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I can't believe the baseballs say 2K Sports and not Rawlings...this is B.S...I'm going with the Show instead this year.

I kid, I kid

[StormJH1]

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Hate to ruin the party, but is there really any reason to believe that the framerate issue and glitches will be fixed? All the previews I've read keep talking about this being a "preview build", but the darn thing is getting released 3/4, and a demo should be out really soon too. Plus, these issues are similar to all of the jerkiness problems they had in 2k7 too.

I'm going to have to be really wowed to get duped into launching another $60 into this product.

[K_GUN]

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Not to mention the fact that it rains in retractable roofed stadiums and All Star Baseball for the Gamecube had a deeper franchise mode.

at least they got Varitek wearing a blue catchers helmet when catching

can't say that about some other games out there these days


trivial?.........kinda like re-tractable roofs

[BadKermit]

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Controlled by your gesture.

I was getting this game anyhow, but now I'm REALLY excited about it. I'm looking forward to my pitchers being all over the place on the highest difficulty settings.

I'm also really pumped about being able to try to influence the direction of the ball with the swing stick. If I'm trying to hit behind the runner on second base or to really pull and crush an inside heater, that addition is going to make the swing feel awesome.

I'll say again that I LOVE the throwing meter in the field. Adding the "cardinal direction" factor was really, really clever. One thing I noticed (I think in the Sportsgamer hands-on) was that they said throwing power in the field was ONLY controlled by the player's ratings. KushGamer had mentioned before that how far you push the analog stick affects the throwing power. I certainly hope that's the case and it was yet another error in the Sportsgamer's article.

I'm more encouraged by this hands-on than by anything I've read so far.

[capa]

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Do they mention, or Kush - can you answer - can you play the game without having to manually field? Do I have to control the fielder and actually make the play, or will the cpu do that for me? I don't mind throwing to the correct base, but I hate manually fielding.

Thanks for any info.

C

[Knight165]

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Ya, but where is ASB now?

Like it or not, the "hardcore" sim crowd is a small percentage of the market. Thus, we get games that are "mostly sim" but also try to be "fun to play".....

It's just the way it is.......

Are you trying to say that Acclaim is no longer in business because it put retractable roofs and more franchise options in than current day games?
I just don't see the correlation.

M.K.
Knight165

[Gangrel]

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Are you trying to say that Acclaim is no longer in business because it put retractable roofs and more franchise options in than current day games?
I just don't see the correlation.

M.K.
Knight165

No, what I was saying was that ASB was cancelled because it didn't sell enough. It probably didn't sell enough because it was geared more for the sim crowd, then say Triple Play or MVP (whatever was there at the time.)

If ASB was simply gone because Acclaim went belly up at the same time, then yes, my argument is moot, and I am not remebering my history correctly....

[baa7]

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If ASB was simply gone because Acclaim went belly up at the same time, then yes, my argument is moot, and I am not remebering my history correctly....

I don't think your argument is moot. 2K is definitely spending their time creating a game they think will sell to the masses - adding new cool features, etc. That leaves little time to fix issues that have been in the game for years, issues the casual gamer probably doesn't even notice, but ones the hard-core gamer does.

[Blzer]

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the card system thing sounds more like something they added for younger kids in order to boost sales, certainly not to add to a sim experience.

The worst part is... this will be one of the "back of the box" features.

[myghty]

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The worst part is... this will be one of the "back of the box" features.

Well they would be stupid if it wasn't...

[sask3m]

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i do think that adding the card thing is great for the kids though, i know i would have loved it decades ago, lol.

[Dozer77]

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Here's a few more pics. personally i think this game looks great.

[ninjamonkey]

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Kush, can you answer this?

I know we can influence whether we push or pull the ball, but can we influence hitting a fly ball or a grounder?

Thank you