Major League Baseball 2K8 360 Impressions

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

Not according to gamestop/eb at our mall. That's what doesn't make sense. They told me I could pick up The Show today(Tuesday) and 2K8 on Wednesday. I didn't even get the automated call about 2K8 being available today(Tuesday) but I did for The Show.

The're prolly just confused. I went to one of the local (north of Boston Ma area) EB/Gamestop stores yesterday afternoon and he said it would be in today (Tuesday) around noon. They may have been looking at Army of Two or something, I believe that comes out Wensday.

[rhymeorreason]

Quote: Originally Posted by HK-47

Hit any home runs?If so, how were the celebrations?Does it show players high fiving like the Wii version?

There are player celebrations / reactions all over the place.

I hit a 2-run double in the bottom of the 7th to take the lead and Eric Byrnes lost his mind after sliding through the plate.

[rhymeorreason]

Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how fantastic the game LOOKS, visually.

Quite, quite beautiful.

As someone who (literally) watches baseball 6 hours a day, I can't stress enough how blown away I was by some of the likenesses in the game.

Conor Jackson, Eric Byrnes, Khalil Greene, and Adrian Gonzalez come to mind immediately when thinking about it now. my roommate and I were both doing double takes a lot of the time.

[HK-47]

Quote: Originally Posted by rhymeorreason

There are player celebrations / reactions all over the place. I hit a 2-run double in the bottom of the 7th to take the lead and Eric Byrnes lost his mind after sliding through the plate.

SICK! Finally some emotion shown from the players!

What about the dugout reactions?Did they high five Byrnes when he got there?

[metal134]

How do walks (issuing, not drawing) and pitch counts look? That is by far the most important issue for me.

[mmdmaznn]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

Not according to gamestop/eb at our mall. That's what doesn't make sense. They told me I could pick up The Show today(Tuesday) and 2K8 on Wednesday. I didn't even get the automated call about 2K8 being available today(Tuesday) but I did for The Show.

I did receive the automated call about my preordered 2K8 being available Tuesday afternoon. I got the call yesterday (Monday)at about 4pm.

[DSheppard]

"- The in-game presentation is worse than last year. I hate the new camera angle used to show the upcoming batter. Gone are the close-up face zooms of the upcoming batter"

why on earth would they do that.

its not enough that they have to lower the resolution, ruin the field textures and generally downgrade the graphics to increase the fps... but for some odd reason the nice closeup shots are gone too.. ?

youd think if your primary graphics goal for a year of development is to increase the framerate you wouldnt have to take away so much to get it.

anyway... at least i like the gameplay stuff im hearing and im anxious to try out the pitching. still buying tomorrow.

[NYY4Life]

Question for someone who has played the game is the behind the pitcher cam the same as last year? Beacuse I liked theres and hated The Shows camera I hope 2K didn't change. But I guess Ill find out myself later today.