Kotaku's Owen Good chimes in today with a column that gives camera angle settings for all 30 major league teams. So that your MLB 2K10 game can better approximate the center field view, you see during a live broadcast.
"Maybe no other sport is influenced this much by irregular stadium dimensions. Maybe no other sport has fans who'd care about this. But how you see a baseball game on TV is unique, park-to-park. In video games, however, it's uniform.
This dawned on me when my pitcher was promoted out of Indianapolis a few weeks back and debuted in Pittsburgh for the Pirates. I've written about the freelance roleplaying I do in sports titles, but here I imagined watching the broadcast of his debut. Ruminating on that, I realized that because baseball parks are much less uniform than NBA, NHL or NFL arenas, their camera presentation should also be unique. Ideally, wouldn't a broadcast-quality major league baseball simulation have that capability?
Well, in a way, MLB 2K10 does. You have more camera control in this game than is offered in MLB 10 The Show, which has two outfield camera positions for pitching but no means to adjust their height, zoom or angle. 2K10 includes those variables. While you have to re-set that camera position each time you start up the game (it's apparently not saved as a profile preference, something I'd love to see patched) the customization is still there."
This dawned on me when my pitcher was promoted out of Indianapolis a few weeks back and debuted in Pittsburgh for the Pirates. I've written about the freelance roleplaying I do in sports titles, but here I imagined watching the broadcast of his debut. Ruminating on that, I realized that because baseball parks are much less uniform than NBA, NHL or NFL arenas, their camera presentation should also be unique. Ideally, wouldn't a broadcast-quality major league baseball simulation have that capability?
Well, in a way, MLB 2K10 does. You have more camera control in this game than is offered in MLB 10 The Show, which has two outfield camera positions for pitching but no means to adjust their height, zoom or angle. 2K10 includes those variables. While you have to re-set that camera position each time you start up the game (it's apparently not saved as a profile preference, something I'd love to see patched) the customization is still there."
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