Now, the only thing keeping me from going out and buying High Heat are some concerns I have. These are problems with 2003 that I hope have been fixed for 2004.
For one, 2003 was way too easy. I played all 162 games on HOF setting with the Red Sox and won 116 games and swept the Braves in the World Series. Has this been addressed?
Strikeouts were few and far between. My best performance was probably 14 K's against a friend who couldn't hit anything and I was using Pedro. Conversely, I rarely struck out. It was always easy to make contact on anything.
Is it also just plain harder to get a hit? When I finished my season Nomar was hitting .412. The homerun numbers were pretty accurate but batting averages were inflated. I flirted with .400 with Johnny Damon, Rey Sanchez (only because there seemed to be a certain programming error where pitchers would 90% of the time through him a high fastball on the first pitch) and Jason Varitek.
Has the Homerun Derbry been fixed to 10 outs instead of 10 pitches? And will Barry Bonds still hit all 10 of them out of the park unless the player is awful?
I love the franchise modes in Madden and NFL2k3, is High Heat's any good?
Are the rosters fairly accurate? Last year's wasn't. And do the teams actually have their 2003 schedules instead of the 2002 ones?
Is it possible to hit a home run without using the guess pitch feature? Last year it was, but only rarely and with good power hitters. I like the guess pitch feature, but I felt like unless I used it I wasn't going to get a hit so unless I had 2 strikes on me I was always guessing. And also, is it possible to NOT get a hit when guessed correctly? Again, sometimes your player would not get a hit if he guessed correctly, but he usually did. This made most relief pitchers and some starters (anybody who only had 3 pitches) insanely easy to hit.
Is the knuckleball actually effective now? Tim Wakefield was my only flaw for my season. It seemed impossible to use a knuckleballer effectively. It was also REALLY easy to hit a knuckleballer.
Has the AI overall improved? It seemed I never had to worry about pitching to a guy like Ichiro. Whenever he got on base I just had to throw a pitchout on the first pitch because he would always run. And will pitchers still throw to first when a player has just a normal walking lead? I'd get irritated when my player would take the normal automatic lead and a pitcher would just keep throwing to first.
Thanks to anyone who decides to answer my numerous questions. Hopefully it takes far less words to answer these questions than it did to ask them.
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