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One star is being generous

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: November 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The 3-d graphics although an improvement, are hardly worth the effort. The gameplay is hard and frustrating, the option to save is gone and so you have to finish the 2 hour marathon in one sitting, the characters are bland and "robotic" as one fellow reviewer had the good sense to say. Backyard Baseball 2005 is a far worse than the prevous years.

Worst of the Backyard Baseball series

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: June 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just purchased this product today for my seven-year-old son, and I must say that this is the biggest piece of junk I have ever wasted $19.99 on. We own the two previous versions of Backyard Baseball, as well as Backyard Football 2002 and though they were simply wonderful products. We were very excited to get the latest version of Backyard Baseball, until we got it home and tried to run it. I has failed to run on three computers, a Sony PIII 600 running WIN98, and a Gateway P4 1.9ghz and a clone AMD Athlon 1100 both running XP. On the Sony and AMD the game simply quits at random spots, or when the space bar is pressed. The Gateway bluescreens during the introduction. Since this is the first version with the Atari label on it, I can only assume Atari 'tweaked it', ruining the gaming pleasure for thousands of children.

Don't waste your money. Buy the older version. It works great!

Not compatible with certain workstations

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Beware of purchasing Backyard Baseball 2005. This version requires DirectX 9.0 and a driver that is compatible with 9.0. I just finished the run around with Atari Tech support and the burden is on me to update my XP machine which has been unsuccessful - they do not have a patch - shame on them!
I loved their Backyard 2003 versions, but will avoid purchasing their sequels.

Sorry I bought it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After much anticipation (original release date was 5/11/04), I bought this for my 7 year old. He loves Backyard Basketball and Football, and wanted to buy Baseball 2003, but I persuaded him to wait for the "new and improved" 2005 version.

Well, we installed it and have had nothing but problems. I've called Atari 3 or 4 times, and they claim it's the video card/graphics driver. I downloaded Intel's newest (from 2002), but like several of the other reviewers, it cuts out at certain spots and when you hit the space bar. We have yet to play one game, after setting up fields and teams and listening to the announcers. I followed all the Atari troubleshooting tips (closing all background applications running, etc.), NOTHING WORKS! My son is disappointed, I am frustrated. I thought about spending the money to improve the computer/replace video card, but what if that doesn't work too? All the driver tests work for 3D and Direct X 9.0, I'm convinced it's NOT a driver problem but a software problem. I want my money back!

Horrible Horrible Horrible!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: July 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have really enjoyed the Backyard Baseball series. But this latest version is awful. It's very different from the older versions. I was looking forward to using the gameplay actions as in the previous versions, but its all different. And HARD! I'm past 50 and a long-time computer user and this is just too hard for me. So you can believe it will be hard for a child, even using the easiest setting. And one thing I dislike is; you cannot SAVE the game you are playing. The "3-D" effect is poor, too. All the personality effects of the familiar players in the previous versions are now bland and robotic in this installment. I am VERY disappointed. I'll be going back to Backyard Baseball 2003!!!!!!!!!!

disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: April 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was really disappointed in this game. I thoght that this was not as good as the others.

Fun at First , But gets Boring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After getting the 2003 version of this game I was crazy to buy this version. When I got it at first It was incredibly fun, but then when you play on rookie mode after a while it gets way to easy and you start winning 53-0! I figured it was no problem and switched to pro mode. Same thing happened, first very fun, but then you figure it out and you switch to the highest diffuculty, all star. You guessed it, it posts the same result as the first two difficulties.
It may last you a month of fun, but the you just want a new game.
Or if you want to unlock everything it may add some more time, but after that you may never play it again. I would recommend the 2003 model over this one, but it is only one star better. I am still waiting for atari to make a breakthrough backyard baseball game, and hoping they do it in the 2006 version, if the make one.

Son likes it

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My 7 year old son loves it, but my pet peeve is that there is no way to Save a game & come back to it. Therefore I have to allot him a good hour to play, so he can only use it on the weekend! I contacted the company, & they said that is how the game is set up.

this game is fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. when you first play it you think, WOW this game is fun! this game can be addictive even though it is not as great As MLB 2K7
or MLB '07 the show. There are a lot of great powerups in this game.
Very easy to win in season mode.
recomended team:
pablo sanzech
sammy sosa
acmend Kahn
pedro martenez
derek jeter (once you've unlocked him)
Alex rodrgez
pete wheeler
Ichiro
shawn green (once you've unlocked him as well)
this is my team i higly recomend it beacase with this team I NEVER lose.
Hope this revew is helpful to whoever reads this
by the way this game will get boring if you play it all the time.
Bye

Backyard Sports is now 3-D!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: July 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My eight-year-old daughter and I both really enjoy this new Backyard Sports title from Humongous. I wasn't sure that I would like the change from the 2-D animated style of their previous games, but they kept the wacky cartoony flavor in the 3-D models, and having the camera fly around the fields is pretty cool. The fields aren't ordinary baseball fields--the kids play in an Everglades swamp, in a southwestern desert, and on a midwestern farm complete with a tornado and crop circles. We both really enjoy the humor of this game. I especially like the color commentary by Abner Doubleplay. My daughter enjoys the crazy power-up pitches.

We have an older Nvidia Gforce 3 card and have had no problems. I have heard that some older video cards aren't supported by the latest DirectX from Microsoft. Maybe that is the problem some people are having. I've always found Atari's tech support helpful when I gave them a call, though I haven't had to in a while.

The only reason I'm not giving this five stars is that I wanted to play with my gamepad, and the button mapping is quite awkward. Unlike other games I have that say they support controllers, there doesn't seem to be any way to remap the buttons. So we just use the mouse and keyboard. (My daughter doesn't mind. I'm the one who plays console sports games, so I'm used to a gamepad.)

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