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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.

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.

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.

DO NOT GET THIS GAME!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you are a hardcore baseball fan, little kid, or anybody else, DO NOT GET THIS GAME! I like Wii Sports Baseball better than this. 1st of all, the hitting. Everytime you hit the ball, it goes to center field and you get a single. You can't hit a stinkin' homerun unless you have enough points. The graphics are terrible. Everybody looks the exact same. With the Wii remote, you have to flick the ball to the base you want it to go to. How can you get it to go to 2nd, and not home? YOU CAN'T!!!!! If you purchase this game, you will be dissapointed. Get MLB Power Pros instead. It's easier and much cooler than The Bigs or should I say The Worst Baseball Game EVER!

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.

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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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.

Takes a while to get - but then fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This isn't one of the games that you pick up and just go with, you do need to spend some time reading the instructions and practicing. I haven't tried to play the computer yet, because most the time we easily have 2 or more playing. For two people, I think this game is a blast once you get the hang of it. The graphics, sounds and commentators are all very good. The way that you control your players seems to be very much in your remote and numchuck and you seem to really have control both offensively and defensively. We were really excited when we found this game because we are huge baseball fans, and so far it seems to be right up there with Tiger Woods as our favorite game we have played so far.

Unrealistic Game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: November 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As a baseball fan I had to get this game. The graphics are good, and so is the music.
However the main problem with this game is it is extremely unrealistic! It is nearly impossible to beat the computer at any level no matter how good your team is or how lousy the computer's team is. Obvious home runs are stolen when the computer jumps, what looks to be almost thiry feet in the air, to rob you of a home run.
Also the game is set in large part on a point system, and the more points you have the more it allows you to do ridiculous thing like throw pitches at nearly 110MPH. It also allows you to go into a power mode where basically any pitch you hit will be an automatic home run.
Also if you are behind in runs instead of helping you get out of the inning it actually has a punishing effect. It starts to take away pitches that you have, like removing a fast ball, from your choices. This is ridiculous!
It is no wonder EA has cornered the market on sports when small players make such unrealstic games!

Not fun to play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the most irritating video baseball games I have ever seen. The controls are so complicated to learn and use that the game is just not fun to play. The only reason I can think of that so many people gave this game good reviews is that they played the game on other platforms where the controls were much simpler. The writers of the Wii version of this game got so carried away with the new stuff they can do that they forgot to actually play the game to see if it was fun. Well, I can tell them now to not waste their time. This game is not fun. If this were the only Wii game there was, the Wii wouldn't have sold 5 copies. Fortunately, it's not.

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