With all these silly modes and useless extra Menus, companies (Mostly EA) seem to put in their sports games nowadays, to me it just seems to weaken the overall core gameplay itself. Simply because there is just too much focus on sprinkling attention to too many different areas of a package in a development cycle.
In my opinion, a sports title should feature a PLAY NOW option, a FRANCHISE MODE, and online play. I have never used Road to the Show, so I really dont want to say either way if it should or shouldnt be included. And of course for all the sandboxers out there, it should include an EDIT section that will allow you to CREATE and EDIT your own TEAMS, PLAYERS, ROSTERS, MANAGERS, SLIDERS and MANAGER STRATEGIES
However, if a BASEBALL game was to include anything other than the above, I would most certainly want to see a VIRTUAL STADIUM TOUR section in which you can freely roam in first person view around any MLB STADIUM (Past and Present) and walk thru the stands, inside the tunnels into the stadium itself , sit in any seat to soak in the ambience of being at that park. There should also be a nostalgia screen that has some factoids you can read about the stadium and its history.
That would be a FEATURE that I feel would truly add value, provide us some historical background to these homes and not just be back- of -the -box bullet fodder. This would certainly compliment a world class game like The Show and could also be educational for the true baseball fans in all of us.
In my opinion, a sports title should feature a PLAY NOW option, a FRANCHISE MODE, and online play. I have never used Road to the Show, so I really dont want to say either way if it should or shouldnt be included. And of course for all the sandboxers out there, it should include an EDIT section that will allow you to CREATE and EDIT your own TEAMS, PLAYERS, ROSTERS, MANAGERS, SLIDERS and MANAGER STRATEGIES
However, if a BASEBALL game was to include anything other than the above, I would most certainly want to see a VIRTUAL STADIUM TOUR section in which you can freely roam in first person view around any MLB STADIUM (Past and Present) and walk thru the stands, inside the tunnels into the stadium itself , sit in any seat to soak in the ambience of being at that park. There should also be a nostalgia screen that has some factoids you can read about the stadium and its history.
That would be a FEATURE that I feel would truly add value, provide us some historical background to these homes and not just be back- of -the -box bullet fodder. This would certainly compliment a world class game like The Show and could also be educational for the true baseball fans in all of us.
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