MLB 14 The Show Video - Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Los Angeles Angels (PS4)

[Steve_OS]

As many of you already know, we have a couple of lucky OSers with the PlayStation 4 version of MLB 14 The Show in hand. Thanks to Inhocmark we now have some gameplay footage.

This video features the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Los Angeles Angels.

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[moose616]

This looks beautiful! Fantastic job on the lighting, looks just like a day game with zero cloud cover should: bright colors, accurate shadowing, etc.

Before people start complaining, please realize they didn't rebuild the entire game from scratch. So yes, there are some of the same quirks from last year/gen. Many animations are still the same (helmet tap while rounding first on a HR trot).

The good:
- Lighting - It's astounding. Would love to see a gameplay clip of a night game.
- Camera angles - The new dynamic camera looks very nice and transitions very smoothly.
- Commentary - It seems pretty good this year. It was hear them talk about Ibanez's year in Seattle last year. I just hope we don't have to hear it every Angels single game.
- New cutscenes - The one at the end before the game cuts to "commercial" is quite nice.
- Crowd - That final cutscene really highlights how much better the crowd looks. Very well done, although it does look like there is one duplicate (top right, white Angels jersey with the one cut off the screen in the top right corner).

The one thing that stuck out to me in need of adjusting is the outfielders camping. With the new hardware to work with, maybe they can rebuild how outfielders track down a fly ball, rather than running to a spot and waiting.

This video just made 5/6 seem a lot farther away.

[Sgt_Carnage]

Wonder why Scioscia is wearing an old Angels cap

[JG1986]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sgt_Carnage

Wonder why Scioscia is wearing an old Angels cap

I'm assuming because on the team select screen, you can individually select what pants, shirts, and hats you want to wear. Whoever was playing most likely just picked that hat for his own reasons. I don't think it was anything errant with the game.

[OSGuy321]

The crowd is much better.

[HustlinOwl]

Commentary zzzzzzzzzzzz another year with commentary at 0

[JG1986]

The game looks great and is visually stunning but I believe the whole game is only marginally better than the PS3 version. They added some great things but the presentation largely has remained the same, among other things. I'm aware they didn't rebuild the game and that is why I can't justify buying a PS4 now, especially knowing my PS3 save files will transfer over to the PS4. I'm playing the heck out of the PS3 version (loving it) and my guess is that MLB 15 the Show will blow my mind and that is when I will make the jump to current gen.

[videobastard]

Game looks great no surprise, looking forward to next week. I hope this is the final year with the stale style of commentary that sounds like a reading script instead of it sounding like everyone is together in the booth.