MLB 09 The Show Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[Motown]

A few more impressions here. 1st the bad: last night when i played...smooth as silk. today, pretty choppy for some reason...the framerate's almost like an ole time movie. I'm playin' on a 42" Toshiba SDTV Svideo

Now some pretty cool animations. Victorino hit a laser down 3rd...only to be robbed, & he ran half way down the line...then he realized he got robbed lol...then he slammed his bat down in disgust lmao...glarin' @ the 3rd baseman. Kaz pointed to 3rd, went back to the mound... took his glove off & reached down to tie his shoe.

*edit* CANNOT HIT A SLIDER TO SAVE MY AZZ!!!

[slickdtc]

I like it.

Haha. That's about all I can say. I just got a PS3 a few weeks ago and only have 2 games, neither of which are MLB The Show. I did download the 08 demo and liked it. This 09 demo is a step up and further in the right direction. But the demo is such a tease! We all know the gameplay will be great because they didn't fiddle around with it, but rather just added and tweaked elements that needed fixing. Now I want to play around with the extras they have in there!

[Blzer]

So I played my first game on Hall of Fame mode, and let's just say that I need to get some work done with my offense. At the same time, I shut them down all day too. Here was the ending box score (I was the Phillies):







Yep, that just happened.

[jim416]

Man, Upton just went after a high hard one out of the strike zone.

Tried a bunt with Rollins, good bunt, pitcher pounced on it and threw him out at first.

Struck Pena out again.

Damned Kazmir's slider. Gonna have to learn to be more patient this year as pitch recognition IS easier.

1-1 after 4.

TB 1-2-1
PH 1-0-1

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by adam42381

I noticed one issue which may just be demo related - in the 4th inning Dave Campbell said something to the effect of, "now lets take a look at last year's NL leaders in ERA...you can clearly see that Hamels is at near the top of the list." The problem is, the list they showed was the 2007 NL leaders and Hamels wasn't on the list. I just wanted to see if anybody else has noticed anything similar to this?

I brought it up at the CD and it should be fixed.

[theaub]

The catcher just gave me the closed fist (pickoff) signal, and I almost got Rollins at first. I like that feature a lot.

Unfortunately, I'm also still getting that up the middle fielder running by the ball stuff that was in last year. Hopefully that's a non-final build thing.

[adam42381]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

I brought it up at the CD and it should be fixed.

Ok, sounds good. I figured little things like that would be tweaked before the final build.

[Skyboxer]

All these impressions are killing me...
I'll be playing my 1st game around 4:30'ish The demo was done downloading this morning and installed. So when I get home tonight it's on...
I'll post my impressions then.
Keep the info coming....