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What Matters Is That It Plays Better Than The Others.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

April 12, 2002

I've tried "Triple Play" and "Hardball", and rate
"High Heat" higher than both. This copy has served
me for two years. It's plusses are many.

It has the first and foremost necessity to be a good
baseball game: intuitive pitching and hitting. Being
able to catch the corners and trick a batter is what
makes a baseball game playable and replayable.

There is good detailing about the players, and attention was
paid to the various styles of swinging the bat.

Character creation is easy. Teams, players and seasons
are all programmable. However, moving players around is
a chore, and time-consuming.

The minuses?

Well, although the High Heat people promised roster
updates, my 2001 version was left high and dry.

Yeah, graphics occasionally go wonky.

Some of the interfaces are maddening, as, in my version at
least, they display only eight of the nine players in the
starting lineup, or four of the five pitchers in the
starting rotation. It can be infuriating when you try
to switch people around. Hopefully that's been improved
in newer versions.

The best, no other Baseball game will ever have to be bought

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

WOW!!!!

Play for as long as you want! really..... Great game! Good downloads, patches ,ect.....

looks, feels, sounds like the real thing. The fact that you can make your own players, make the HOF, be on the DL for over a year....well it is just like the real thing, I know I said that already but this is the FIRST AND LAST game you will every need. an the idea that I can play many many many many.......ect, seasons ....well nothing else is needed!

An addictive, thrilling game for this baseball fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I don't usually play sports games, but I am a baseball fan and I played the previous two games in this series. All I have to say is that I have played hundreds of games in career mode, guiding the Tribe through several seasons, and I've never gotten bored with it. The pitcher-batter interface is the key to the game; there is a steep learning curve to successful hitting, I found, but after many games I have topped out at being a pretty good hitter (my team usually leads the league in offense). However, I am still susceptible to being shut down by good pitchers, and even though the computer's pitching is sometimes predictable, a well-timed changeup is still a devastating out pitch. Another aspect that keeps me playing is the career mode, where I can manage three levels of minor-league teams, draft rookies every year, and invest a lot of emotional capital in new players I have developed myself. There are lots of good details included in the game as well, such as a batting-practice interface for working on your hitting, a mid-season all-star game, trading with other teams, customizable leagues and seasons, and a head-to-head-with-another-present-human mode which is quite fun (and easy to set up if you both have Sidewinder Gamepads, my preferred peripheral for this game).

There are a few downsides ... the minor leagues are initially stocked with made-up players, and not real minor-leaguers. The graphics are good but not great (I'm not complaining -- they're perfectly fine for me -- I'm just noting that other baseball games have slicker visuals). Base-stealing and defense are reasonably well-executed, although I still make terrible errors on both counts sometimes (partly from brain spasms on my part but not totally -- I think the interface for these aspects could still be improved).

Overall, however, this is by far the best implementation of a baseball simulation I've ever played.

Can I please give it 10 stars instead of 5?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was one of the biggest advocates of EA's Triple Play series. After the letdown of Triple Play 2000 and 2001, (They haven't made a good one since 1998) I began to be turned off by PC Baseball games. Until, I found HH 2000.

And this game, HH 2001, is even better than its predesessor. The graphics are gorgeous. The AI is the most intelligent I have ever seen in a baseball game. The physics are pinpoint accurate. Outfielders can't throw laser beams from the wall to the catcher in 2 seconds. The pitcher/batter interface is the BEST of any game. And, perhaps the greatest gameplay feature that it has over all other games:

YOU CAN ACTUALLY DRAW WALKS WHILE BATTING. --This may not sound like much, but believe me, it makes the game so much more realistic.

The player editor is a great feature, letting you tweak players abilities (for instance, if you leave it the way it is, Mike Sweeney would be a career .270 hitter...we all know he's better than that!) :-) You can guide your franchise through an infinite amount of seasons. I have one of my teams in the year 2087 right now.

There are so many features that this game offers but I can't talk about all of them in this limited space. But, if you love baseball, you'll absolutely fall in love with this game. Buy it now if you haven't already.

I love this game -- and I'm not into sports!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game has it all! I enjoy simulation games, but am always looking to spice up my game collection with gear that uses different approaches to that same-old-song-and dance. Sammy Sosa's High Heat Baseball 2001 gave me the simulation/management aspect of the game, while allowing me to play the game as well (if I choose to do so).

Truth be told, I bought the game as an alternative to some other sports games, because it had the ability to be more than just "Baseball Mogul" or some glorified fantasy baseball simulation. And, I didn't need a 3d video card, either!

I didn't realize at the time that the game would end up ranking as one of my all time favorites. I'm not a sports person, but SSHH2001 has hooked me. I find myself playing both the simulation aspect and the "baseball game" aspect about equally. And, as with all GOOD games, you never end up with the same game twice.

The play-by-play in SSHH2001 is predictable after a while, but has improved my swing and my eye for hitting that slider or fastball. I'm still having trouble with the change-up, but I am sure that with more batting practice, even I will improve. The graphics are not the world's best, but I can't complain given all the other fabulous goodies -- home run derby, customizable seasons, draft picks, develop your own farm teams, batting practice with ability to set the types of pitches, simulating seasons, trades, a High Heat MVP, stats that have a bearing on game simulation performance... the list goes on. And for the price, it's gotta be one of the best baseball games around. Heck... even 3DO guarantees your satisfaction. What have you got to lose?

Best Baseball Game Ever Made for the PC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you ever wanted a baseball game on the PC, this is the obvious choice. This game has great graphics, but more importantly, it is very realistic. Unlike other games you often throw balls and walk batters in this game, which is just like the Majors. You can do everything from exibition games, seasons or just a good ol' Home Run Derby. The physics of the game are very realistic as well, and the controls are superb. Works very well with keyboard or the Microsoft Sidewinder. You can even do a fantasy draft and draft your very own team, play in any stadium you wish and more. Another great feature is the patch updates available from the 3D0 website. I patched the game from the End of 1999 Rosters to the beginning of 2000 Rosters, so my players, teams and stats are always up to date. Soon after the 2000 season I'm sure they will release another roster update, which is something most baseball games on the PC never see. Highly reccomended, easily the best baseball game ever made for the PC.

Possibly the best sports sim. ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game, although it has a few minor flaws, is easily the best sports sim on the market right now, and ranks up there with classics such as Earl Weaver Baseball, Front Page Sports Football and Madden.

The game play, especially the batter/pitcher matchup are almost perfect. The ability to move fielders and make plays is excellent. And, the all around feel is like playing in a real game.

Minor stat errors and a fairly poor minor league system take a way from the game a little but, but these items can easily be fixed with 3rd party applications available on the internet on High Heat user sites.

If you have a fast connection, online play is worth triple the price you pay for this game! There is nothing like playing an actual person in a tight game. Online player rankings are also available and used for this game.

Although EA's Triple Play has fancier graphics, the gameplay and realisticness of High Heat makes Triple Play seem like the old Atari basball from the 1970's.

High Heat Rules!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best! Don't waste any time with Triple Play, or Hardball. I've played both, and they are both terrible. High Heat beats both of them by a mile. Not only are the graphics great, but the game play is awesome too. Buy this game!

Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: August 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game has been a tremendous disappointment. I've been working on it for hours, still can't get it to run. Not only that, it's taken over my computer! None of the other games that I used to enjoy run, either!

I have a very new system: AMD Athlon 650, Matrox G400 vid card, but this game requires Microsoft DirectX 7.0a -- in fact, it installs it on your computer when you install the game, but it doesn't check to see if DirectX7.0a is compatible with YOUR system. If not, watch out! As far as I know, there's no way to know this before hand. I've troubleshot everything according to the instructions given in the game to no avail. All the diagnostic tools say everything is fine, but... still no game.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall everything and get back to where I started. It's not as easy as you'd think, because the uninstall that comes with the game doesn't uninstall DirectX7.0a. You're still stuck with that one.

I wish I could say something about the game itself, but for obvious reasons, I'm totally ignorant of any of the wonderful features espoused by the other reviewers.

All I can say is, I think you're taking your chances with this one, and considering the wide availability of baseball sim games out there, you might have a better experience with something else.

This game is perfect for what I am looking for.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: August 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is my 1st High Heat game and I have had it for only 3 days and I love it. This game is great for someone who wants to be a manager and not really play the game. (I don't have a joystick so I haven't been able to play the game.) But the GM mode and the minor leagues allow you to do all of the things that a manager would do like manage rosters and develop players in the minors. I had Triple Play 2000 and it was terrible compared to this game.

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