Re: Major League Baseball 2K8 (360/PS3) Impressions
First of all, I'm writing as someone who played over 400 games of 2K7. With slider tweaks and a couple of house rules, I honestly thought that game was great. That's also to say I was one of the people who actually believed that this game could be one of the best of all time - they just needed to fix a handful of things.
Well, I played for about five hours. My initial impressions are that this game has taken a GIANT step backwards.
1. The graphics, colors, lighting and textures are all subpar from what they were in 2K7. That's right, none of them are as good. Even the player models, which was one of the reasons I prefered this game to The Show in the first place, look pretty bad at times.
2. The framerate is bad. Maybe I'm just going crazy, but it, too, was better in 2K7, even the PS3 version! Even worse, like others have mentioned in the framerate thread, there's literally a 1-2 second freeze between virtually every cut scene. It's pretty ******* brutal.
3. I'm not a fan of any of the "innovations." (Frankly, I don't even understand how the new picthing mechanism is supposed to be better than what was there last year. It's still easy to pitch, and if you "hit your spot," the ball still goes exactly where you aimed it. Wasn't that everyone's main complaint?) It's like they just wanted to implement the analog sticks; there doesn't seem to be any other reason for the new systems. I haven't noticed any enhancement they offer to gameplay whatsoever.
3b. And so get this: since I didn't like the new pitching, I switch back to payoff (from 2K7) and they've gone and made it SLOWER! I mean, honestly, WTF? It takes like five seconds to get a pitch off now. It's so bad, in fact, I went back to the other system!
So those are my main out-of-the-box beefs. It's not that the game blows, per se, but I'm having a very hard time seeing any improvement over 2K7.
6.5/10
First of all, I'm writing as someone who played over 400 games of 2K7. With slider tweaks and a couple of house rules, I honestly thought that game was great. That's also to say I was one of the people who actually believed that this game could be one of the best of all time - they just needed to fix a handful of things.
Well, I played for about five hours. My initial impressions are that this game has taken a GIANT step backwards.
1. The graphics, colors, lighting and textures are all subpar from what they were in 2K7. That's right, none of them are as good. Even the player models, which was one of the reasons I prefered this game to The Show in the first place, look pretty bad at times.
2. The framerate is bad. Maybe I'm just going crazy, but it, too, was better in 2K7, even the PS3 version! Even worse, like others have mentioned in the framerate thread, there's literally a 1-2 second freeze between virtually every cut scene. It's pretty ******* brutal.
3. I'm not a fan of any of the "innovations." (Frankly, I don't even understand how the new picthing mechanism is supposed to be better than what was there last year. It's still easy to pitch, and if you "hit your spot," the ball still goes exactly where you aimed it. Wasn't that everyone's main complaint?) It's like they just wanted to implement the analog sticks; there doesn't seem to be any other reason for the new systems. I haven't noticed any enhancement they offer to gameplay whatsoever.
3b. And so get this: since I didn't like the new pitching, I switch back to payoff (from 2K7) and they've gone and made it SLOWER! I mean, honestly, WTF? It takes like five seconds to get a pitch off now. It's so bad, in fact, I went back to the other system!
So those are my main out-of-the-box beefs. It's not that the game blows, per se, but I'm having a very hard time seeing any improvement over 2K7.
6.5/10
When you throw a great pitch though, it is F'in sweet. Just after one game, its like the shot stick in the 2k basketball games, I would never want to go back to simple button presses of old.
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