Re: High Heat Sightings and First Impressions here...
I've only played a few games, but I have yet to see the bug, and I played one game where every inning I made sure the CPU had a runner on third with 2 outs, and was able to make the third out a decent fly ball. The bug never happened, so while I'm sure it's there based on all the various posts, it seems from my experience like it's pretty rare.
But the bottom line is that I'm loving this game. I'm a HH fan and really enjoyed 2K3. To me this is the same as 2K3 but with moderately improved graphics and much improved animations. Overall much prettier than 2K3, and the animations, particularly the fielding animations and the batting animations, really seem to add to the feel of the game. The little things like shakes of the head, reactions to situations, much more fluid movements (still some stuttering, but overall much, much better), coupled with the same batter/pitcher interface that I love, just feels like baseball.
And I'm walking a lot of people, particularly with Simontacchi and middle of the road pitchers like that. It's so frustrating and I love it, not being able to throw the ball exactly where I want it.
So overall, I haven't seen any of the bugs, and the game is something that you'll really like if you liked HH2003, and it looks and feels even more realistic, but if you didn't like HH2003, the graphics upgrades aren't going to win you over to the series if the gameplay wasn't your thing below.
But I'll tell you, I haven't had a better moment in a long time playing a sports video game than last night, when I blew a 5 run early lead to go down 6-5 in the 8th, and then JD Drew hit a 2 run, 2 out homerun in the 9th off of Trevor Hoffman to win the game. It just doesn't get any better than that.
I've only played a few games, but I have yet to see the bug, and I played one game where every inning I made sure the CPU had a runner on third with 2 outs, and was able to make the third out a decent fly ball. The bug never happened, so while I'm sure it's there based on all the various posts, it seems from my experience like it's pretty rare.
But the bottom line is that I'm loving this game. I'm a HH fan and really enjoyed 2K3. To me this is the same as 2K3 but with moderately improved graphics and much improved animations. Overall much prettier than 2K3, and the animations, particularly the fielding animations and the batting animations, really seem to add to the feel of the game. The little things like shakes of the head, reactions to situations, much more fluid movements (still some stuttering, but overall much, much better), coupled with the same batter/pitcher interface that I love, just feels like baseball.
And I'm walking a lot of people, particularly with Simontacchi and middle of the road pitchers like that. It's so frustrating and I love it, not being able to throw the ball exactly where I want it.
So overall, I haven't seen any of the bugs, and the game is something that you'll really like if you liked HH2003, and it looks and feels even more realistic, but if you didn't like HH2003, the graphics upgrades aren't going to win you over to the series if the gameplay wasn't your thing below.
But I'll tell you, I haven't had a better moment in a long time playing a sports video game than last night, when I blew a 5 run early lead to go down 6-5 in the 8th, and then JD Drew hit a 2 run, 2 out homerun in the 9th off of Trevor Hoffman to win the game. It just doesn't get any better than that.
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