Major League Baseball 2K9 Video: Cardinals @ Cubs Intro

[Artman22]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

Okay... wow at the real time! I doubt anyone noticed, but Wainwright is warming up in the bullpen before he goes out for the bottom of the first. Now that is real time detail! There are some weird slow-down/speed-up transition animation things, but everything else looked great! (oh, the intro was kind of weird... like the beginning for a boxing game or something)

The slow down is on the cut scenes only. The same thing happends in NBA2k9 but the actual gameplay is 60fps smooth.

[SoxFan01605]

Well, the graphics do look better in motion, still "ehh" on them though. There is just something wrong. Animations look pretty good though and I love some of the camera angles (especially the slightly overhead, behind the pitcher one of Zambrano warming up).

Gary Thorne is as awesome as I thought he'd be. Phillips sounded less scripted than in the other short, but jusat okay (I will refrain from going too deep in criticism of Phillips, as I'm sure my real life hatred of him might cause me to not judge him responsibly...lol).

Overall, a very good intro. I do miss the exterior stadium intro and the toss down from "the studio" but this intro, while simplified in some ways, seems much smoother.

My only gripe (I think it was Nemesis who mentioned it first) was the weird voiceover at the loading screen. It screamed "monster truck rally." I half expected a "SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY,"...followed by a row of cars being crushed...lol.

Jokes aside though, it looked solid. Looking forward to seeing the gameplay tomorrow (or later today, I guess)

EDIT: To add, the "real-time" environment does indeed look very sharp. Plus, I continue to be impressed by the crowd...HUGE improvement and well done

[Scooter3]

Thanks Steve,
It's just stunning! It makes me feel like baseball is just around the corner.


I'm sleeping with my glove under my pillow tonight....
Thank You Visual Concepts!
Scooter....

[RedLine]

I think the video quality is very nice, and it looks like this game will be a step up in graphic quality from 2K8.

The intro does seem a little "light", I too miss the external views of the ballparks.

Is Jeannie Z. not doing any intros or commentary this year? I liked her last year in 2K8.

This must be a quick start game as I didn't see options to choose ballpark, time of day, weather, etc.

I noticed there are 4 controller icons on the startup screen, 2 on each side. I wonder if this means we will be able to have co-op play, 2 vs. 2 etc. That would be nice.

So far it's looking pretty nice.

The rest of the game intro is nice and I really like the new commentary team.

Going to watch this again.

[madrob]

awesome gameplay but you suck at base running lol
the game looks good i cant wait to buy it for pc and gary thorne compliments it well. thanks for the videos steve

[mike360]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoxFan01605

My only gripe (I think it was Nemesis who mentioned it first) was the weird voiceover at the loading screen. It screamed "monster truck rally." I half expected a "SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY,"...followed by a row of cars being crushed...lol.

LOL..

[The Bimmer]

I just checked it out and it reminds me of the 2k9 hockey intro a little bit. So far so good! On to the gameplay vids.

[BigBlue]

We got a PRACTICE MODE this year? That's what it looks like at the very end of the clip. I hope it's like a batting cage setup for hitting, and an option to practice turning double plays as part of Fielding.

PRACTICE! WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PRACTICE, MAN! PRACTICE!

BigBlue