Major League Baseball 2K9 Review

[RaychelSnr]

March 3, 2009 was supposed to be a day of triumph for 2K Sports. The final chapter in a three-year development cycle that started with MLB 2K7.

Each new edition was to be another layer of bricks built upon the initial foundation, remaking the baseball video-game genre as we knew it. MLB 2K9 was to be the shining star at the top of a glorious skyscraper of baseball awesomeness.

As they say, "the best laid plans of mice and men."

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[ExtremeGamer]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Review

Good review, hit on the positives and negatives more than the other sites.

Good job.

[bigfnjoe96]

Very Fair review Chris. I wish you would have talked a little about the Inside Edge Feature, especially for Pitching. Personally I think VC did a good job with it this year. If you use it & follow the percentages most of time, you will get some pretty good results

[RaychelSnr]

Very Fair review Chris. I wish you would have talked a little about the Inside Edge Feature, especially for Pitching. Personally I think VC did a good job with it this year. If you use it & follow the percentages most of time, you will get some pretty good results

Actually Dave Branda (aka BlyGilmore) wrote the review man.

[boomhauertjs]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Review

I'm hoping all of the mediocre reviews help me move up in the queue on Goozex to get this game. I started at 14th and already moved up to 12 (without any games being traded).

How does everyone else feel about Dave's comment that the game feels more like softball than baseball?

[Blzer]

No real problems with the review on this side of the connection.

I just have one question, though: what do you mean by "player models?" I'm assuming you're referring to the whole package (proportions, jersey detail, faces, tones and animations, etc.). Because you see, whenever I refer to "player models," I'm talking about the skeletal body only. I'm talking about the proportion of the player.

So if I revise the wording from "player models" to "player proportions," how would you say those fare?

[serialmike]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Review

I think the review is fair. And truthful. My only issue is that slider will take care Alot of those problems and there is no mention of that in there. Including the Offense. I can make it so you cant hit a homerun on rookie ball If I wanted.

[boomhauertjs]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Review

SerialMike, I used your mods for High Heat. Good to see you back in cyberspace!

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Review

Actually Dave Branda (aka BlyGilmore) wrote the review man.

Make sure you get him in here ASAP to feel the wrath of the community then... j/k

[serialmike]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Review

SerialMike, I used your mods for High Heat. Good to see you back in cyberspace!

Hey Boomhauer. I never went anywhere. I still post fairly regularly at the HH boards. Now known as theperfectgame.net

I have milled around here and couldnt figure out how to reactivate my account from my infraction a year ago.

Yeah I took a small hit from the banstick over something dumb over someone that doesnt even post here.

[RaychelSnr]

Make sure you get him in here ASAP to feel the wrath of the community then... j/k

Haha, from what little bit I played of MLB 2K9 (literally two games) I would attest to most of the points made and the score. Not like I played it enough to give a review of my own, but MLB 2K9 is so far behind The Show it's not even funny. We're talking NBA LIve 06 compared to NBA 2K6 separation levels here.

[boomhauertjs]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Review

Hey Boomhauer. I never went anywhere. I still post fairly regularly at the HH boards. Now known as theperfectgame.net

I have milled around here and couldnt figure out how to reactivate my account from my infraction a year ago.

Yeah I took a small hit from the banstick over something dumb over someone that doesnt even post here.

Ah, I do remember seeing you over at theperfectgame.net. I've been on there the last couple of years to get Pudge's rosters since I've been playing HH2004. This year I'm finally letting go of HH...

End of thread hijack. Sorry.

[RaychelSnr]

No real problems with the review on this side of the connection.

I just have one question, though: what do you mean by "player models?" I'm assuming you're referring to the whole package (proportions, jersey detail, faces, tones and animations, etc.). Because you see, whenever I refer to "player models," I'm talking about the skeletal body only. I'm talking about the proportion of the player.

So if I revise the wording from "player models" to "player proportions," how would you say those fare?

Player models are typically described using an all of the above approach like you described initially (jerseys, details, etc.) by most all people writing at OS (and probably industrywide). So hope that clears that up

[BlyGilmore]

Make sure you get him in here ASAP to feel the wrath of the community then... j/k

luckily I have my "sticks and stones ..." game face on ...

[texbuk84]

i still like the game. good review though man