Major League Baseball 2K11 Mid-Review Update

[spit_bubble]

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...The only thing that really bothers me is when the camera focuses on the pitcher and all he is doing is staring blankly somewhere off into space as if he just got a lobotomy done to his brain...

I strung together a few hits off of Joe Blanton and the camera cut to him for a good five seconds, and he kept on making this strange expression over and over... Looked like he was trying to squeeze out a dook.

As for the graphics and animations, the animations aren't that bad. There are simply some that don't look very realistic. The player models on the other hand... A lot of the players look like ogres, or some medievil ancestor of the actual player they were trying to represent... And that certainly doesn't help for those aforementioned close up shots.

[ChaseB]

The Trop does look bad, but "8-bit NES" bad? ....C'mon!

Ha, I mean he's clearly being a bit over the top for the sake of proving a point about The Trop, but I do think the pitching camera angle is close to the same one in Bases Loaded in that stadium.

[rudyjuly2]

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I know it's easy to harp on the negatives and I'm guilty as charged but I do think we should mention two features that get no love in any review. One is the VIP feature and the other is the sports blog in franchise mode. These things are great and yet I never read about them.

[Celtic34]

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I find it kind of odd this game is getting criticized like it is. Are you playing the same game I am?

[econoodle]

christian, great thoughts on the game.
You are helping me along on a possible purchase. the franchise ipressions will be the creme de la creme though.

great stuff as always.

[mrclutch]

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Ha, I mean he's clearly being a bit over the top for the sake of proving a point about The Trop, but I do think the pitching camera angle is close to the same one in Bases Loaded in that stadium.

Bases Loaded--Best Baseball Game Ever!!

Nice article by the way.

[Simp]

Playoff mode should be thought of as an absolute essential mode in any sports game, like franchise mode is. Playoff games are the most fun games to play in so why not let people have access to the playoff atmosphere and sense of pressure? Playoff mode should be standard in every sports game. It was standard 20 years ago so why not now?

[Glenn33]

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I don't believe the graphics are Super NES bad by any stretch. That being said -- it is REAL hard to play Fight Night Champion, NBA 2K11 & The Show and then come back to this game. Really hard. Graphically this game is just not up to par with the curent crop of sports games. I don't think that's even debatable.

I do really like the gameplay - shortcomings and all. If it had graphics even close to the Show I would never play any other game.

[Smokez4DAyz]

The game is great, it does so many things better than last years, and tops the competition in many areas, many. Im shocked that I am reading this. these graphics are better than what I am reading and the splash of life pumped into the game is not in the other game. I use the yankees v baltimore, 6 games in, no glitches, no bad animation, no funny a.i moment, and thw defense is dificult. I doubt your review will be honest. You seem to be playing up to the competitions fan base. 2k fans already bought the game or will buy it. Hurry up with your wish it was the show review.

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...And yes, the Trop (and the Trop only) looks like a game of Bases Loaded from the default broadcast pitching department...

I just played my first game there, and I don't really understand what you are talking about. Do you mean just the camera angle or what? I myself didn't have any problem with it, and besides isn't it supposed to replicate the real life TV Broadcast for that stadium? Did they just get it wrong or something???

I don't know, just seems like a minute and relatively inconsequential thing to harp on.

[SoxFan01605]

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I just played my first game there, and I don't really understand what you are talking about. Do you mean just the camera angle or what? I myself didn't have any problem with it, and besides isn't it supposed to replicate the real life TV Broadcast for that stadium? Did they just get it wrong or something???

I don't know, just seems like a minute and relatively inconsequential thing to harp on.

Yeah, pretty sure it's the camera angle. It's very similar.

I think that, because the Trop is so ugly by default and the view is so zoomed out and reminiscent of the view in bases loaded, it gives a bad impression when coupled with he game's hit and miss graphics.

I would agree that it is one of the ugliest looks (if not the ugliest) I've seen in the current crop of sports games, but I don't think it's a good idea for someone doing a review for OS (regardless of the stage) to be slinging around hyperbole like that. It's almost as if it's a concerted effort to tweak fans of the series...lol.

It's one thing for people in the forums to do it (I mean, what would a message board be without hyperbole...lol), but anything that is going to be a front page "article" should exercise a bit more reason IMO.

[swaldo]

Loving the defense so far. I was pitching against the CPU with a two run lead, one out with men on 1st & 3rd. Next batter grounds out to my shortstop towards 3rd base so he had to backhand it. I realized my only hope for a double play was to make two full-powered throws thus risking an error. No way! Instead I made medium powered, accurate throws sacrificing a run to keep their man on 1st base.

You always have to be on point and thinking - aware of each of your opponents batter & baserunner's speed, your fielders strengths & weaknesses etc. Whoever wins the millions bucks is going to have to put the best "D" possible on the field. Anyway, could it use some tweaking? Maybe, but it's so much better than what we've seen in past games so I hope they wont get slammed too hard on this area in the review.

[GrandMaster B]

I think the game looks great. I have "The Show" as well and there are a lot of jaggies in that game. The colors pop out more in 2K's game and the lighting and shadows I feel are better. The announcing for "The Show" is pretty bland. The scoreboards on "The Show" are fantastic though, but I think Sony's game took a step back and MLB took a step forward. Now if they could only fix the framerate outside the lines.

[TripleThreat1973]

I thought the ability to rent a video game made reviewers unnecessary?

The comments in the review read as being biased. To exaggerate so in a review is not very professional, and it makes the other comments hard to take seriously.

Now, if he had some something about the visuals, such as cletes and gloves that appear to made out of wax, or from 1922, that would be accurate.

So far, just a lot of blah blah.

How does it compare to 2k7/8/9?

Exaggeration and nit-picking is not reviewing.

[roadman]

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As I said in the first impressions thread, it depends on your tolerance for graphics. I put up with a lot worse graphics on the PC with HH Baseball because it had great game play. It also had a ton of bugs, but it was the only baseball game I played.

This was a decade ago.