Major League Baseball 2K10 Gameplay Video (Mets @ Cubs)

[bwiggy33]

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This game is looking pretty good after this video. It's only one though so I'm going to need more. The one thing I really wanted was the CPU hitting a fly ball to the outfield to see how the user players catch the ball as in frame rate slow down and such. Graphics are a whole lot better than what most people thought I'm pretty sure. I gotta watch it a couple more times to look at stuff a little more in depth.

For people saying they don't dig the batting camera, its fixable by changing the camera settings. I liked the view for the video though because it really showed off Wrigley. It's amazing how good Wrigley and the colors looked. I thought the fans were fairly active to. When A-Ram stepped to the plate with the bases chucked the fans got into it. It will be really nice once MLB Today takes in effect to the commentary because the stuff that was in the video was pretty much all from last year. Nothing really sounded new except for Kruk.

[MizzouRah]

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The numbers look kind of awkward on the jerseys.. could have been the video..

Hopefully the video is also why it looks really choppy to me...

Love seeing a walk.. Perez does throw wild, just like real life.

I really like the low batting view..

Stadiums and graphics look very vibrant.. presentation looks great..

Overall.. I'm excited to see the demo.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Anyone else notice the announcers saying inning ending double play, but it was zero outs and the run scored?

[backbreaker]

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Anyone else notice the announcers saying inning ending double play, but it was zero outs and the run scored?

Yeah I noticed it as well, but all sports game have inconsistent commentary at one point in time. So if I can forgive the show for its mishaps in this area I can do the same for 2k.

[Jamin23]

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Yeah I noticed it as well, but all sports game have inconsistent commentary at one point in time. So if I can forgive the show for its mishaps in this area I can do the same for 2k.

And remember dynamic commentary.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Yeah I noticed it as well, but all sports game have inconsistent commentary at one point in time. So if I can forgive the show for its mishaps in this area I can do the same for 2k.

I just wasn't sure if I heard it correctly. It confused me at first the way the action played out.

I just wish since baseball is about details and little things, they were more attentive to the uniform numbers and lettering. They are ll the same on every uniform. How are they not using the ones that were in 2K7, it is the same engine.

[dorismary]

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The gameplay and play by play was fine , the atmosphere and crowd was amazing but the player models were still very disapointing every player below the waist is just thick and generic ? Almost like last gen but the Wrigely looked great .
Anyone wonder how they can add all the other nice details and not notice how messed up visually and proportion wise , names and numbers , helmet logos ? could it be a depth perception thing as I remember reading they had no time for gear upgrades this year .
I mean its gotta be a framerate thing as 2k7 models were amazing but what excuse could anyone make to defend the huge Numbers and names , just shouldnt happen in 2010.
For Me personally visuals are just as important as gameplay for the total experience .

[sleepytercel]

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I just wasn't sure if I heard it correctly. It confused me at first the way the action played out.

I just wish since baseball is about details and little things, they were more attentive to the uniform numbers and lettering. They are ll the same on every uniform. How are they not using the ones that were in 2K7, it is the same engine.

Okay, while this doesn't explain the size of the uniform lettering, I have to chime in here. 2K10 is not using any engine that was powering 2K7. In fact, Visual Concepts completely rebuilt the graphics engine from scratch for 2K9. They did use some old animations from Kush Games, but the graphics being powered was completely designed by Visual Concepts. This is standard to all of their games as they did the same thing for NHL2K as well.

Also, when compared to 2K9, I just don't see how anyone could be greatly disappointed in the gameplay video. I don't know what we were expecting out of a year of development, but I think that year clearly shows positive change. I was quite impressed overall, especially when compared to last years offering, but to each their own.

[rckabillyRaider]

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looking pretty good. It has a good ballpark atmosphere, commentary sounds like a tv broadcast, graphics are solid, animations are solid. I did notice on the replay of when the 3rd run was scored, the crowd reaction was way late.

[JayhawkerStL]

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I thought it looked fine. I was glad to see the CPU taking pitches. the pitching mode looks good. There was nothing in that video that would prevent me from picking this up day one.

Do the uniforms look wonky? Sure. But I'm not sure I get the fascination with that crap. Same with editing batting stances.

Gameplay is what matters, and it looked solid on offense and defense. It looked like a solid game of baseball. I know some did not care for the hitting cam, which I am assuming is customizable. But that is what I usually used in 2K9. It makes reading the pitches easier. and it was very easy to read pitches before you had to swing.

Graphically, it doesn't touch what MLB 10 has shown so far. But it does what it needs to do.

[queensbomber]

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This game is definately a HUGE step from 2K9.
Holy cow, I mean it picks up where 2K7 left off. Lets face it, they are not beating sony's game this year because basically they lost a couple of years really developing the game. They are still a couple of years behind.
But I personally think that those people who have xboxes will not really be dissapointed. I guess anything's better than 2K9 but this years game, aside from the jersey numbers, looks awesome!

Graphics look great, lighting, animations, presentation, that new batting IMO looks great.

Honestly, those of you who were dissapointed with last year's iteration, you have to be excited but what you're seeing so far this year.

[SeerMagicX]

looks like it has the same game breaking problem IMO that last years game had. The outfielders play way to deep, and like last year, you can probably never hit a ball over an outfielders head. That's unacceptable.

I mean look when Fokodome is up. The center fielder is playing a few steps away from the warning track.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Okay, while this doesn't explain the size of the uniform lettering, I have to chime in here. 2K10 is not using any engine that was powering 2K7. In fact, Visual Concepts completely rebuilt the graphics engine from scratch for 2K9. They did use some old animations from Kush Games, but the graphics being powered was completely designed by Visual Concepts. This is standard to all of their games as they did the same thing for NHL2K as well.

I find this hard to believe. Have any proof of this?

The engine is the same every year, just tweaked and Frankenstein one way or another.

There is no way they built a new engine from scratch, but all the existing animations from years ago, and graphical quirks from years ago are still there. Especially when it looks the same, only texture and light issues every other year.

[dorismary]

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I do not believe this for one minute. Have any proof of this? The engine is the same every year, just tweaked and Frankenstein one way or another.

There is no way they built a new engine from scratch, but all the existing animations from years ago, and graphical quirks from years ago are still there. Especially when it looks the same, only texture and light issues every other year.

2K uses the same engine structure across all their sports games this gen.

Hes a Mod at 2k forums for what its worth I kind of believe him do to the lacking player models in both 2k NHL and MLB after VC took um over to address the framerate problems both games had back then .
But I could have sworn nhl 2k9 had alot of older nhl 2k3 or 4 in it , old code stuff IMO .

[kgisbeast]

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The one thing that concerns is we only got one inning of cpu batting. The cpu swung at everything minus the pitcher who took pitches. The 1st batter, 1st pitch and out. Perez took a bunch of pitches. Reyes took the first pitch then grounded out. This also coincides with Reiner having low pitch counts and being able to go the distance so much. I hope this isn't a case of the AI being too reliant on inside edge. Last year you could basically pick spots where the AI would swing and wouldn't swing depending on their percentages from that spot which made the AI very predictable after a while. Last year the pitcher would take pitches and rookies(who don't have IE intel on them) which made the game very unbalanced. IE wasn't integrated correctly last year and the game was basically broken because of it. If that's the case, that visual concepts has gotten the feel and look of the pitcher and batter duels but the AI itself is still sketchy that kind of makes the game very shallow. We will have to wait and see I guess. In one of their insights they said they overhauled IE but I didn't see it there.

Letters and numbers are important from an aethetic standpoint, and attention to detail but if the gameplay is just broken that's a bigger issue to me at least. It can be the greatest looking game in the world, but if it doesn't play right what's the point?

One thing I liked is when he missed his gesture and threw a bad gesture pitch it missed the strike zone and affected the accuracy quite a bit. The batter(Perez) had two strikes on him and swung at a pitch out of the zone.