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MANAGE MODE!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: April 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Lousy manager mode!!

Playing in manager mode is just a full screen graphic. Quite honestly, playing on my commodore 64 was more fun. I remember Apple computer released a game in the 80s that had a manager mode that had GRAPHICS. And today's game makers can't achieve this?

Graphics average. Pitching is fairly accurate... when your pitcher gets tired or rattled, the aim gets shakey and harder to hit your mark... I like that. This also allows for pitches to be balls, which leads to the "ever so rare" BASE ON BALLS.

Hitting is done by pulling back on the R3 stick and releasing to swing. You can't aim WHERE to swing. Ultimately, it's too easy.

Also, controls, at times, are WAY TOO CONFUSING. I was batting one time, bumped something ???? and my RIGHT HANDED batter switched to a LEFTY!!??

This game is a mess. Not to mention, after playing 4 games of a 5 game series, while loading up game 5, it locked up on me.

BOO HISS! AND GIVE US A MANAGER MODE WITH GRAPHICS!!

ps2 Major League Baseball 2K6

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Like many I waited with long anticipation for this games release.
I was very disappointed. If you are like me and enjoy controlling each team in the season mode, you are out of luck. They changed it to where you can only control four teams. Also its not updated. For example the St. Louis Cardinals play in a brand new ballpark this year. But the game has them still playing in the old one. Also the graphics are not at all better then last years. Its a giant step backwards. My advice is save your money and replay 2K5 by updating the rosters yourself and create new players. All MLB teams have current rosters posted on their Web Sites. Last years game was much better.

Not worth the wait

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics seem cluttered, like they tried to put too much in. Gameplay is not all that realistic. Also, the commentary has bugs in it. For example, I was in the 2nd inning and after my pitcher got the final out of the inning, the coomentary said "he's through 7, only 2 more to go". Not a good experience at all.

DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: May 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is horrible!!! Allot of glitches!! Players don't even look like the actual players! Everything about this game is horrible! Please do not waste your money on this. Wait to see what EA sports comes out with. I can't believe we bought this game. I wouldn't even waste your time renting it to see how it is. The rosters are all wrong. They aren't even the same as the opening day rosters. Hold out and stick with MVP Baseball 05 until 06 comes out. A good game to get if you want something new is MVP NCAA Baseball 2006 it is great. Hope this warns someone before they buy this game.....I would rather play the old original Nintendo Baseball game.

Some nice elements, but flaws are too glaring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: April 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Really, this game could have been great. It has nice graphics, the player movement is nice and fluid, the pitching concept is nice, and the swing stick is super cool. However, the game play has some serious flaws that make it impossible for a baseball fan to play. The game play flaws are:

1. Pitchers have a tendency to throw tons of wild pitches. I don't understand why this is, but it also seems more common when runners are on base. That, of course, is quite frustrating.

2. When an opponent is stealing a base, you get no indication that it's happening. The baserunner window closes when the pitcher delivers the ball and there is no other visual or audio clue that the runner is trying to steal the base. Kind of hard to throw a runner out when you don't know you need to.

3. The automatic base running is atrocious. They added a feature where a runner will dive head-first into first base. Ok, that's cool enough (even though I hate it when players do that in real life), but the computer has no idea when it should do this and when it shouldn't. I've hit balls to the wall, told the runner immediately to head for second (side note: I like the baserunning guides with the numbers that show which base is the runners destination, that's really nice). So, you'd think he'd round first and head for second, right? No, in fact, he dives into first. Then gets up and brushes himself off, then kind of goes 'oh yeah' and bolts for second, only to be met by the second baseman holding the ball. GRRRRR.

4. the dreaded speed boost. it's fairly cool to think that a lot of speed boosts will eventually slow a player down, thus getting the notion of 'fatigue' into a game. though, come on, these are professional athletes (disregard john kruk's famous comment) and chasing down two balls to the gap on back-to-back plays isn't going to slow down an outfielder. some day a game producer will realize it's just easier to make players run full speed all the time. don't get me wrong.. things like controlling the strength of a throw and balancing that with level of accuracy is great, and realistic, but the speed boost is not, and it's hard to use.

5. too many damn HRs. i'm sure i could have adjusted settings somewhere, but why should i have to? how hard is it to get statistics right for this kind of thing? i want a game where out-of-the-box it's hard to hit 40+ HRs in a season, and the majority of runners will score from second on a base hit. in other words, i want realistic gameplay. without having to make tons of adjustments. why is that so hard?!?

all told, the game has some nice features, but it seems like their testers or developers have no true love for the game of baseball.

i would NOT buy this. i wouldn't even bother renting it.

A Mess

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: April 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was pretty excited about getting this game based on all the pre-hype. As I waited for it I also puchased MLB 06 - The Show. Bottom line buy MLB 2006 The Show. 2K6 has bad graphics, non-intuitive controls and rosters that are not updated. Situations are unrealistic and it is as if people who have never seen a baseball game built this thing. A tremendous disappointment for something that took unti April 10 to be delivered.

I wish the developer would be forced to play the games they make

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Don't pay $40 for this game.

Let's start with the good. Pitching/batting interface is very good. As long as you stay away from the Inside Edge feature. Attempting to follow my catcher's commands generally leads to hitter's counts where I am forced to throw a fat pitch down the middle. Just turn Inside Edge off and use your own common sense instead. Swing Stick takes time to get used to, but it is doable. The Franchise mode is great. It's interesting to monitor your player development, operating under a budget, negotiate trades, etc.

Then let's move on to the fair. The Graphics are okay. It's not as bad as what you may have read elsewhere, but I think that's the best thing I can say about it. The pitching screen, where you get the standard TV view from behind the pitcher, looks fantastic. Everything else is fair. The sound is pretty good the first time around, but then it just starts sounding tired. Worse, during season or Franchise play, the game previews that play during load time reflects none of your seasonal progress at all. Being a Mariners fan, I played the M's into a 11 game winning-streak, only to have the announcer proclaim that the Mariners have not executed well lately before the game started.

Then there's the bad. Remember when your coaches told you in little league not to wait for the grounder to come to you, but to run up to it instead? Well, your infielders will almost always wait for the ball to bounce to them instead, resulting in unnecessary close plays at first or infield singles (at least it rolls both ways). The computer picks the wrong fielders for you every so often, and before you realized that, you have already moved someone else out of position. Baserunning is alright as long as you don't have more than one person on base. Otherwise, it's difficult. The wall-climbing plays are very cool, but it needs to be cut down. Torii Hunter robbing people homeruns is awesome, Manny Ramirez doing it twice a game is science fiction. There are a lot of little details that just ruin the game on the whole. Sometimes after groundouts, your hitter would just keep on jogging down the first baseline. Outfielders would often keep on running along the wall after watching a homer leave the ballpark. In franchise mode, where you can't control the weather, it would often rain inside Safeco Field. Yes, guys, it rains often in Seattle, and that's why Safeco Field has a retractable roof. All these details add up to show me that the developers forgot to actually play the game before selling it to the general public. Had it been priced at $19.99 like the old 2K series games, I would say it's a good game. But at $40, what you're getting is a half-baked product by a studio that essentially decided not to pay attention to the details in a video game that simulates a sport all about the details.

Wasted Potential = SUCKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has so much going for it that it is amazing just how much it sucks.

Pitching. Set the break point of the ball. By using the Inside Edge statistics and the break point pitch system the game actually allows the AI to swing at pitchs that break off of the plate, something that never happens in MVP.. AWESOME but pitchers fatigue too fast. After 4 innings most starting pitchers are ready to call it a day.

Swing Stick is Ok. Not Great. They included the classic button push batting controls though so this is neither hear nor there.

The MOST comprehensive statistics tracking of any console ball game I have seen TRULY GREAT. Great Game modes, franchise, season, even WBC.

Sounds Great Right?

Graphics suck. Players look like they all have the same barbie doll Ken body with a rediculous looking cod piece. LMAO!!!
More importantly the color scheme used for the text backgrounds blurs out the text in some fields making certain stats very hard to read.

Announcers not only repeat themselves too often but are often irrelevant. Players and teams are always announced as having no runs or home runs and no RBI's every single game regardless of their season record.

Glitches galore, pitchers and batters always stuttering in the cut scenes, the backstop in center field of Coors Field flickers, Fielding is sketchy at best, fielders continuing to run once the ball is out of play etc. Unforgivable is the occasional hang in the middle of a pitch. The game will sometimes freeze for a second or two then continue making it impossible to hit.

Those who say if you don't like the game you didn't play. Wrong. I wanted to like this game and I played it and yes you can learn to make the most of it and work around the glitches, but why would you want to when you can control a MLB franchise and all 3 of it's subordinate MiLB teams in MVP 05? MVP is graphically and mechanically superior.

For statistics I will stick to PC games like Puresim Baseball 2007 and Out of the Park 6.5.

For consol I will stick with MVP 2005 and MVP ncaa 06. I will be very hesitant to buy 2k baseball ever again. I hope the company gets a clue and puts the time in to fixing all of these problems because I don't care if I never have another updated roster again, I will stick to MVP until something at least as good comes along.

Major League Baseball 2K6

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my grandson for his birthday. He plays it all the time. He likes that he can have his own player with his own name,espically when the announcer says his name! It was a very good buy and he's still playing it almost a month later.

Horrible, horrible, horrible...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wow... last years MVP baseball (from EA) was the best overall baseball game I've ever played (well since Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball in the early 90's) .. And I couldnt wait for it to come out this year.. only to find out they sold the rights to their MLB games to 2K sports. So with high expectations, and many hopes that it would be similar to MVP... I bought it the day it came out. Very dissapointing.. First of all the rosters were not even close.. and it wasn't released until opening day.. come on guys!!!! .. I mean there were people on the roster that were cut from the team they were on BEFORE THE END OF LAST SEASON.. lame. And when you get online to download the rosters, it will only let you use those rosters for online play.. lame again. You have very limited choices in camera angles. lame. the graphics are far inferior to games released many years ago. The commentary messes up quite often (though I usually mute those annoying voices anyways), The pitching control is not nearly as refined as MVP '05 was.. The batting style seemed like it might be kinda cool but it couldnt surmount the other bad points of this game. Overall I am supremely dissapointed..

BRING BACK MVP PLEASE!

I will be selling this on ebay and picking up MVP NCAA baseball instead.. should be a lot funner despite not being MLB.

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