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great!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion this is one of the best baseball games out there. The graphics are great and the special features like TWIB challanges and home-run derbys are nice. But the game quality is bad. Sometimes the frames will move really slow and cause you to mess up a play. And the thing that bothers me the most is that the game freezes a lot, even though the disk is almost brand new and has no scratches.(It only freezes when its loading back to the main menu after you have won or lost the game, hopefully won.)So if you're planning to get this game you better have a lot of patience.

Unimpressed....it's really not great.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

All Star Baseball 2005 is a decent game. It's not as good as MVP Baseball 2004 and here's why. When I played the game, I noticed the graphics were pretty amazing. The parks and players looked very accurate and were pretty clear. However, for most gamers, graphics isn't everything. I found the game to be very choppy (slow frame rate) when I played; a few times the game stopped for a split second during either a pitch or while in the field, causing me to miss the ball when hitting and I didn't catch the ball so it got very frustrating. The controls are okay, not the best, and the gameplay modes are actually pretty good. There's a homerun derby which is pretty fun, a TWIB section to win some more fun things, a good franchise mode, and more fun options. Also, I liked the camera mode that you can chose when pitching (it's from behind the pitcher just like on TV). Overall, MVP Baseball is probably the better choice because the fps is higher, the graphics are a little better, the Barry Bonds replacement (Bonds isn't in any baseball games because he didn't sign the agreement) is more accurate to Bonds then a white player who's not A+ in contact, and the modes are about the same. This game is definitely worth renting though.

BEST BASEBALL GAME EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

ASB/05 in my book is the best game ever. Have played it for hours it's just hard to put down once started. I'm in a EXPANISON/FRANCHISE season. I Made an EXPANSION team " North Dakota Fury" (even though I'm from Texas) Right now my record is 16 - 13 and I find that being real, the CPU is treating it like an EXPANISON team as it is I mean lets face it a team that is just made couldn't and shouldn't go from the worse to the best in the first season. To me that is just reality from being the real thing.
2 things do find error in this game but nothing to major (1) it does seem to freeze more then maybe other baseball games do. Out of the many hours days and months I have played this game it's froze 3 maybe 4 times (Not to majar.) In a game with TB just had got it tied 7 to 7 in the 7th and it froze ( was not a happy guy BUT I lived ) (2) Wish it had the speed of the pitch when the ball is hit, have seen no baseball game with this on it but then again this is just a little thing sure we all will live without the speed of the pitch that is hit... All in all I do give this game a 5 star it's fun, it's real and it's only 15 bucks I mean go for it you WON'T be sorry at all to give 15 bucks for this GREAT game...

Another flawed game engine.......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Another solid game until you find the weakness with the game engine, if your drag bunt with any runner with speed 80 pts or higher you will reach safely 80+% of the time. Chone Figgins was hitting over .800 50 games into the season for my expansion team as a all bunting lead off man, and you can do it with runners on, bases loaded, and you can even steal home at a 50% clip too. You can ignore this if you decide never to bunt or try to steal home but once you know this its hard to enjoy the game.

Good!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Allstar baseball 2005 is very much like other MLB games, such as MLB 2005 and MVP 2005. The players are very life like with their regular batting stances and feilding positions. The graphics are incredible and the camera angles are different and fun to play through. Franchise mode is very similar to the 2004 version with spring training and real live season play. Scenerio mode is very good with very well thought out 2003 scenerios including the heartbreaking Bartman foul ball incident with the Chicago Cubs. All-in-all the 2005 version of Allstar baseball is indeed a great on going game to have if your collector of the Allstar baseball games, but there is not much difference between the this game and the other MLB games except for the fact that Allstar baseball has a scenerio mode!

Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: April 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I recently tried out ASB 2005. Before that, I had been playing EA's MVP Baseball for about a month. Maybe that is why ASB seems so horrible to me, because it does not even compare in any way to MVP. First of all, the good things about ASB are the "This week in baseball" feature and the franchise mode seems impressive, but the most important thing, the gameplay, is absolutley pitiful. It is impossible to field ground balls. Almost everything gets through the infield. The pitching in ASB is easier than MVP, but it gives you less control over your pitches. The sound is pathetic compared to MVP. It's muffled and dull, the commentators ramble, the player reactions are stupid, many of the batter stances are totally off. The crowd looks terrible and makes almost no noise, unlike in MVP where you can hear the fans saying stuff like "can i get a hot dog over here" or the vendors in philly saying "cheese steak, get your cheese steak." ASB has none of that. One thing that ASB has on MVP is that the mound visit is better because it gives details on how the pitcher is doing and on the upcoming hitters, but the player attributes are way off. Javy Lopez is given "weak hitting" and Pokey Reese is given "weak speed!" Are you kidding me!?!?! By they way, the music in ASB sucks, unlike MVP which actually pays real bands to use their music. Another plus for MVP is that there are several different slides you can do in MVP, like hook, head first,(each to both sides of the bag), pop-up, and of course foot first. In ASB you can do straight head first or foot first only. Overall, ASB gets a one out of 10, purely because of it's realistic franchise mode, but EA's MVP gets a 9/10, so DON'T waste your money on ASB! GET MVP AND YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED! By the way, I also wrote a separate review for MVP if you're interested. But there's something I don't understand: Why isnt Kevin Millar in either game? Is he too not in the MLBPA?

Makes me experience the big leagues!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love the play and graphics of this fun game. Until I get myself recruited into the majors I'll have to settle for the next best thing. This game is so fun. I can't wait to get home and play it when I'm at work. My wife is not happy though as it keeps me from doing the chores. I rather be in the game.

Worlds best Baseball game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Worlds best Baseball game ever. The graphics and ground details will blow you off your mind. The game has it all fielder cam,online gaming and loads of fun for a novice to the professionals. I highly recommend this game over MLB.

This game is my favorite of sports titles

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I find this game to have the best gameplay of any baseball games I have ever played. I like a challenging game that I yearn to use for the long term with fun realistic effects. This game takes me into the game like no other with the controlability and effects I have wanted for a long time. I can only imagine what the programmers will dream up next year after the features this year.

must have!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 53
Date: March 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Very good and detailed... Entertaining with great graphics

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