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interesting and forgotten Super NES baseball game
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Rating: 5,
Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User
I know most people will look at the graphics in Extra Innings and laugh their butts off but please believe me when I say this is *seriously* one incredibly fun baseball game! True, it lacks many of the options todays baseball games have, but that's okay with me since all I really care about is how much fun I have with a game. And I've had (and continue to have) a LOT of fun with Extra Innings. In fact, I've had this game for almost 10 years, ever since my uncle from California bought it for me. The game only gets better with time!
The graphics aren't good since the players on the field are really tiny and they all look identical, but the play control is perfect. Moving your guy left, right, up or down on the field is easy as pie, and you should have NO trouble at all running towards a ball. When you're up to bat, getting base hits and hitting homeruns happen frequently, too. You will most likely get at LEAST 5 points in every game you play, since it's so easy to get runs.
Infield homeruns happen a lot too because some players run incredibly fast (while other players move as slow as a turtle and a snail in a 10-mile race!) Here's a tip for you: if a runner is slow that usually means they are a bad hitter, and the fast runners are good/great hitters. Also, tapping the L and R buttons on top of the controller will make the guy run around the bases faster. Tapping the L and R buttons will also make the guys in the field run faster, too (and I mean the team YOU control, not the players on the other team). But you have to tap those buttons fast!
The music is very much like real baseball music. ALWAYS very clear, and very good. Each of the three stadiums to choose has its own theme song, and having players on first, second or third base will change the music into something else. So there's a lot of music variety in the game. You can change an option to make it where the computer controls the outfield part of the game (instead of you) but I always leave that option alone because I like to do all the outfield work myself instead of having the computer do it for me.
Diving and jumping to catch balls is something you need to prepare and learn, since you're going to need to move FAST in this game in order to have time to grab the balls and get the players out. Not very hard to do (because of the great play control) and there are some really cool tricks you can do in the game to get your opponents out at the bases VERY easily, and with experience you'll find that when you're up to bat, there are ways to mess with the computer so you can advance to another base (and even home plate!) You'll have to play this game for a long time to find those tricks but believe me, they can come in handy if you are losing a game and finding yourself in a situation where you can pull off one of those tricks!
It's very easy to score in Extra Innings and, funnily enough, you rarely have games where you go in extra innings! After a while, when you begin to *really* get good at the game, the computer becomes easy and Extra Innings may not hold your interest after you continue winning game after game, but Extra Innings held up VERY well for me over the years. I've been playing it for over 10 years and I still enjoy every moment of it.
Just because it LOOKS bad compared to todays baseball games doesn't mean the game is any less fun. Matter of fact, out of all the baseball games I have ever played, Extra Innings is the only one I truly care about (but that could change as new games come out all the time). Extra Innings rules because it's easy to control and the pace of the game moves *perfect* for me. Not too fast, not too slow. Plus, scoring runs is easy and fun so you HAVE to like it! A great, overlooked game and one of the finest on the Super NES (and for the price -sitting at a few dollars right now- you should buy it).
Just don't expect Extra Innings to have as many options as the baseball games out there on the market today. Go in expecting a simple fun baseball game and you'll be happy. A lovable, playable baseball game, that's exactly what it is.
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