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Fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good game. The controls are very good, graphics good for a Wii and a 2K game. (I have 2K baseball for my DS, it sucks). You can do a regular game, Homerun Derby, or Rookie Challenge. That's where you are a rookie and join a team, do things, and become a star. To my dismay and disappointment, there is no Dynasty/Franchise mode. That is the only thing I don't like about this game.

Very Realistic, but I'm not a mlb star

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

So this game has good graphics and lots of features, but difficulty level is definitely up there. I see its rated mlb players top pic. So may be I need to be an actual mlb player to be good at it? Any how with lots of practice you too can be good at this game on easy mode! Then may be you can enjoy the true to life home field view and mlb player line up.

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Best Wii Game Yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game and am very disappointed I had to rent it and can't find it anywhere. It is great and fun to play, it takes a while to understand it all but after you get the hand of it is very fun. You can even trade players to make the teams as they are now.

A Home Run you'll Never Forget

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The BIGS is really a great game. It's a bit more complicated than the baseball game in Wii Sports. OK, a lot more complicated. It takes a little while to get used to the many pitches, swings, and field plays you can do, but once you've got it all down it's a ton of fun.

HITTING: Hitting is very simple. You swing the wiimote like you would if you normally would if you were playing baseball. You can aim your hit left, right, up, or down, and you can even bunt. Also, you can hold down 'A' for a power shot. Your player's statistics will tell you how they're strength in POWER and CONTACT so you can adjust your swing accordingly.

PITCHING: Pitching is a bit more complicated and can make your arm/shoulder a little sore after a while. Basically, you aim your shot in the box over home plate using the nunchuck. You can hold 'Z' to throw a ball outside of the square. Then, you use a meter to try to throw one of NINE pitches in the green or white area on the meter. You swing your wiimote down, downleft, or downright while holding 'A', 'B', or both. If you throw it to far away, it's a ball, but if it's just right and if you throw with the right amount of power it's a perfect pitch, almost impossible to hit. Your player's pitching stats tell you their best pitches and how well they are at each.

RUNNING BASES: Running is automatically done for you, but if you want you can manually control it by using 'Z' to select one of the runners and drum the remote up and down really quickly to make them run faster. You can round bases and advance runners if you feel they don't automatically go far enough, and you can hold 'A' and swing to slide into a base.

FIELDING: When a ball from the opposing team is hit, you have to use the nunchuck and the drumming motion of the wiimote to run to the outlined spot on the field and catch the ball. You can hold 'A' and swing the wiimote to do a diving catch (specifically helpfull in the outfield when the ball is about to be a home run and your player jumps 15 ft into the air to catch the ball!). Fielding is more difficult because your view is looking onto the field as if you were in the stands. You can use 'Z' to switch fielders and once you have the ball, you hold 'A' and swing left, right, up, or down depending on which base you want to throw to to get the runner out.

Most other things will be done automatically such as catching throws from other players and tagging runners at the base. However, it always seems like the opposing computer team always does better at fielding. The game is unfortunately a bit unrealistic because I pratically get a hit with every batter and I've gotten up to 12 runs before in one game. It's still really fun though, especially in Rookie mode where you can create your own player and do whatever it takes to make them the star of the game.

The other really important part is the Power Play Meter which builds up depending on moves you make in the game such as strikeouts, hits, runs, etc. Once this builds up to 10,000 you can perform a Power Play or Dead Heat where for a hitter you get an automatic home run if you make contact with the ball, or for a pitcher automatic strikeouts.

Overall, The BIGS isn't exactly as realistic as I'd hoped, but you can choose from any team in the MLB and play games and do the Rookie Challenge or Home Run Derby. After a little bit of practice you'll understand it all, but it does take some work to figure out all the options and button combinations. It's a lot of fun and keeps you going for hours. If you like baseball, it's great, and gamers looking to take advantage of the Wii are in for great fun.

Cool game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a very good video game. The pitches are very relistic beacause when you snapp your wrist and press different buttons, it does pitches like a splitter or meatball. The hitting is also very realistic.But one thing i dont like about this game is that almost everytime u hit, u hit a single strait down the middle.

Is it really all that BIG?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a great baseball franchise game or just a good baseball game, you shouldn't buy this game. As advertised on the back of the game case, it is a arcade game version of baseball. Just a warning, be prepared for cheap homeruns and pitches.

BIGs Disappointment...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: June 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had high hopes for this game especially for the Wii because of the controls...but sadly it was a let down. Nearly every aspect of the game is flawed with the exception of the sound which is solid. The controls, The Wii's bread and butter are very difficult to get a handle on this game. While they clearly give you alot of wii motions and wii controls to use. There difficult to remember and often don't do as you want them to do. Thats the worst offense of this game, Gameplay wise, 2K made it clear this game was trying to be NBA Jam lite when it comes to Baseball. In some ways thats true, less thought put on the finer aspects of simulating baseball and more thought put into homeruns and fancy plays and strikeouts. If you actually had good controls, This might be fun, but you don't. So its a mess either way. Graphically, well we all know the Wii isn't for graphics but generally they look very poor, the game isn't in 100% widescreen for some reason. You have a little bit of black bars on the right and left sides on a high definition tv. The graphics are generally ugly in most spots and rarely do you see many closeups. The arenas are well rendered to the real arenas and the sound and music selection is solid. You also get a good more current roster MLB selection and customization for wild looking players. But it means little if you can't play the game well because the controls won't work as they should. In the end, its not worth your time, even as a rental. They really need to fix the controls, wether that means simplifying them or fine tuning them. Whatever it may be.

BIG on fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

MLB Bigs is a dramatic upgrade for those sports enthusiasts who don't think the Wii Sports Baseball is quite up to par. In this game you can use actual major league players and play games of more than 3 innings! The arcade aspect of the game adds to the fun level due to monster home runs and nasty pitching. Once you catch on to the controls, endless fun awaits!

Fun but not for baseball purists/realists

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's fun but not realistic, and arcade-y, not stat driven. The "Power Blasts" and 30-ft. superman leaping catches at the wall are quickly tiresome.

"Rookie Mode" is decent but there is no Dynasty or team management as has become standard in other baseball games.

Very enjoyable sports title

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I purchased The Bigs for the Wii console and have been very satisfied with it overall. The pitching is accurate and varied, the batting is good and allows more skill than Wii sports baseball by letting you shape where you want your shot to go. The two handed play style can seem daunting, but is actually a blast, allowing strike em out-throw em out plays, nasty double plays, and good first jumps by infielders on ground balls. With regards to controls, I felt the learning curve to be slight. Myself, my little brother, and even his girlfriend were throwing 100 mph heat or smacking extra base hits around after about an hour (those complaining about the manual...you did see the "learn the bigs" mode, right?)

pros:
-rookie mode is varied and fun.
-two handed play is engaging and gets to be intuitive.
-pitching and batting more nuanced than Wii sports.
-big plays can look cool and make you feel like a stud.

cons:
-throwing to bases with a flick of the wrist is hit or miss (mostly miss.) The D pad doubles up this function though, so not a deal breaker.
-being able to hit home runs at will with a full meter, or snag regular home runs off the wall (30 feet up) gets to be cheap.
-mini games don't have their own mode (need to accessed through rookie mode or through Learn the Bigs...again, not a deal breaker, but could have been nice to have a category like Madden NFL.

neutral:
-music is good, but not varied.
-commentary is funny, but not varied.
-graphics are fairly solid, some players got mugged though in translation.

Overall: Good game, definitely satisfies the long ball seekers, could use a touch more variety in next iteration and some work on fielding to bases. If you want a solid sports title, this game satisfies.

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