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There should be a rating for NO stars.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: April 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I shan't complain about the batting controls as others have because they can be changed to be more suitable. Not the baserunning controls, mind you. Those are beyond horrible.

I shan't complain about the graphics as they are adequate. I won't even bicker about rosters not being updated or commentary being flawed. The gameplay, on the other hand, is atrocious. Since when does Randy Johnson, a fastball pitcher, throw four wild pitches in a row when attempting to throw a fastball straight down the middle?

For those who might ask, the pitchers do in fact get tired but that wasn't the case here. Any pitcher I chose if I tried anything creative the pitch would go wild, and sometimes if I did nothing creative at all. That aside, let me count the ways this game is terrible:

1) Randomly for no apparent reason the catcher will have the opportunity to, and automatically will attempt to, pick off a baserunner at first after a pitch. This does not seem to have any relation to whether or not that runner extended his lead and whether or not the runner gets back to the bag in time seems to be up to the software. It's like a cutscene neither player has control over, but can result in an out for no apparent reason. Bonus point: This can happen after a strike makes the third out. Apparently the game designers forgot how many outs were in an inning.

2) The game freezes, occasionally crashes, and is generally slow to load and sometimes horribly sluggish. I suspect it was written in COBOL.

3) With one pitcher I kept using his slider and literally after every single pitch one of the announcers made the exact same comment. Over and over. This was annoying, but I chalk it right up on the board next to other fun bugs like "HOME RUN DISTANCE: 0 FEET".

4) The music reminds me of Super Nintendo. This is not a slur on SNES, rather a statement that the parts of this game that aren't completely awful would have been considered "pretty good" a decade ago.

5) I like to try little experiments so my friend and I were playing the home run derby both using the same players. We managed 33 and 28 HR respectively at Yankee Stadium and then proceeded to Coors Field, which the game ranks as the best "Hitters Park" and proceeded to be baffled by getting only a third as many HR. We then went back to Yankee Stadium and did even worse. Now, if it was only me I'd say that maybe I just went all funny in the head and forgot how to play, but since this was happening to both of us I suspect the game is the one that went a little funny, especially with all other things considered.

6) All of that aside, I've experienced multitudes of line drives that are caught, but looked like they were ground balls from the initial angle; Clear and obvious fielding errors where a throw is made and the ball isn't caught by the receiving party, but it's ruled as a base hit; pitches that are JUST outside the strike zone are ruled as a ball and then the same exact pitch thrown two seconds later slightly FURTHER outside the strike zone is ruled as a strike; Announcers announcing that the lead-off batter is coming to the plate right after he's been thrown out at first, etc.

In summary, if you like games where players consistantly make errors beyond your control, where some of those errors are not even ruled as errors, where the announcers often sound a little off and occasionally sound as if they're doing some heavy-duty hallucinogens and the umpires seem to be sneaking some of the drugs out of the announcer's booth, this game may be for you.

If you like games that are designed counter-intuitively, have mediocre graphics and still manage to tax the processor, have outdated music and poor game mechanics, this might be the basball game of your dreams.

If you like to see fielders sprinting vigorously into walls every time a ball is hit foul, enjoy your star pitcher having the coordination of a drunken infant, prefer to hit two different buttons at the same time to instruct ONE runner to advance, and repeat the process with different buttons for each additional runner you want to try for extra bases in the middle of a play that takes five seconds, if you want the game to occasionally and automatically have the catcher throw runners out who weren't even supposed to be leading, without you having the slightest bit of control over the situation, BUY THIS GAME NOW. You will love it.

Absolutely horrible STAY FAR AWAY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: April 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Absolutely the worst baseball game I have ever played. HORRID graphics, choppy animations, poor player animations, player faces that look like zombies. Don't even get me started on the game play. Players not tagging up, people not covering the base, fielders not chasing the ball, pitchers batting cleanup in the lineup. What an absolute mess. There's literally nothing good about this game. If you have a PS2, get MLB 06 The Show (which happens to be excellent), if you don't have a PS2, don't buy a MLB game this year because there are no good ones. Complete and utter disappointement!

Waste of money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: April 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm not going to provide a long-winded review of this game. Save that for other reviewers who have already given great insight into the problems associated with this title. Simply, this is the worst baseball game I have played - EVER. I go back to the days of Bases Loaded, RBI Baseball, and others on NES -- and this game is so badly made it's almost comical. The graphics look like they were designed for the original Playstation, the controls are tedious, the action is boring, the commentary is flawed, the players don't look "natural," and the load times take forever. AVOID. I just traded mine in...

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.

The Biggest Letdown in Years

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

With EA Sports sadly selling the MLB rights to this 2K crapola, we have seen the downfall of MLB games till whenever the contract with Take 2 ends (please let it be soon). Last year's MVP game was brilliant, so I wexpected this 2K game to be somewhat close, but boy was I wrong. This is a huge, huge step backwards. All the new stuff that they presumably added suck. Lets just ron dowm a list of the cons to the game:

1.) Graphics: Utterly Terrible. The field and stadiums are O.K., but the players faces all look like they are defected. They all look nothing like what they actually do. If you bough MVP 2005 last year, you remember the deatail that were in those faces (remember the beard of Damon), this is the exact opposite.

2.) Gameplay: Once again, Utterly terrible. Baserunning is damnly complex, adn the new "Swing stick" is hard to understand and use. Pitching is just as bad. However you try to pitch the ball will almost certainly not end uo where you intended it to be. Finally fielding is only decent, but really ladies and gentlemen, it sucks.

3.) Commentary: This is the only decent thing onm the game. Jon Miller andm Joe Morgan do a good job. Of course, it gets repetitive, b ut it always will.

And for good measure, a few more things that make the game worse than say Ken Griffey Jr. games for N64:

1.) It rains ion Houston, and Toronto, and Milwaukee, and any other retractable roof stadium. THey never close the roof, it just rains!!

2.) The game quite frequently lags.

3.) The Cardinals play at Busch Stadium, the old one!!

Well that just about sums up this piece of junk. All these 2K games are a joke. The only good one was NFL 2K5, which led to EA buying out the football rights. Well 2K better get baseball right, or they might be forced to sell thbe baseball rights.

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.

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.

Worse Thing To Happen To Baseball Since Steroids

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is awful. I rarely write reviews, but when something blows this bad I'm left with no choice. Most people have the same complaint; the pitching is the worst ever and the fielding leaves a lot to be desired. If you want to buy a baseball game, don't buy this one.

Rent before you buy...PLEASE!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have one word for this game...PATHETIC! The graphics are made for a PS1 not a PS2. The players look deformed. Did they even bother capturing player motion at all? There is a horrible lack of replay camera angles. They show a guy striking out with a portion of his head and I think you can see an elbow. When they show a replay of a homerun, the guy's swing is extremely overdone. He swings and is almost looking behind him at followthru. Is he looking at the fans behind the plate or the ball leaving the yard? Well, he should be looking at the ball I would think. The only thing halfway decent in this game is the fielding. It seems to be solid and fluid. I couldn't even finish one game because I was so horrified at what I was seeing on screen. All I can say is thank God I kept MVP 2005 because nothing seems to come close. The makers of this game need to take a long look at the recent competition and figure out what they are going to do to fix it. It is nothing but second rate garbage and they should consider firing themselves before bringing out another game like this. DO NOT BUY UNLESS YOU ARE EITHER BLIND OR A COMPLETE MORON!!!

2Kgames? Never again!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I should have learned from my previous experience of NCAA Basketball 2K5 to avoid this company's games like the plague. Chock full of 'innovative' controls, the timing mechanisms involved in basic gameplay frustrate every aspect of this game. The graphics are horrible. Why not save money on the license and create your own generic players? And did anyone bother to game-test this? The cut-away scenes are horrible. You will see your pitcher run off the mound to end an inning, the camera will zoom in, then zoom out again to show him standing on the mound to walk off.

Do you like to pitch? The ball control works great...unless there is a runner on base which will almost always cause your pitcher to throw a wild pitch. The is especially frustrating when you try to avoid it by throwing a meatball down the middle of the plate and it flies over the catcher's head. I wish I was exaggerating, but in playing against my girlfriend 24 wild pitches led to 13 runs between the two of us.
Do you like to field? You'll certainly enjoy your left fielder throwing out runners sidearm from the hip. Or how about the your catcher jogging lazily to get a passed ball then running back to try and tag out a runner by himself? What about trying to run to the ball with one player to find out control has been switched to another?
Or maybe you like hitting. Personally, I find the analog stick control tedious. You will miss on a lot of swings if you try to put any power behind it. And god forbid you try to hit it in the outfield. My favorite part is how the 1st base runners will almost always overrun 1st base instead of rounding the base.

I could care less about the Franchise or Manager features of this game. I just want a game I can stick in and play easily. I am sorry I didn't listen to my better judgement and go for the other MLB offering. I would have gotten a free hat. Now, I am out at least $15 bucks if I trade it in...but I would trade it in even if all I got in return was a Happy Meal toy. This game is horrible. Avoid it like the plague!

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