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Rather Die than Play

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

High Heat Baseball is a very disappointing game. The graphics are horrible. I was playing Sega Dreamcast World Series 2K1 and when I switched to this I thought there would be better graphics. Instead I got players like Brady Anderson that don't have beards in real life but in the game they do. When pitching, you can't control where the ball is going, you can only control if it is a ball or a strike.

For instance you can tell it to throw a fast ball for a strike, and it will throw it right down the middle for an easy home run. You can catch a ball that is 6 feet away and when a player throws it goes off way to the side of you and you still catch it. But fielding and base running is very fun in this game.

this game is a JOKE!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

terrible graphics, no franchise mode, everything that made high heat a great baseball game before has been neglected to be included. while the AI is challenging, it is still to easy to hit a home run and even when u do, youll be hardpressed to even hear the crowd cheer for you. The announcing is terrible with the commentators saying the same comment repeatedly and most of the time consecutively. a definite rent before you buy. I reccomend All Star Baseball for all of you hard core fans! BUYER BEWARE this game ... and i wouldnt pay 15.00 dollars for it!

Looking for realism? Look no further than HH2K2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As any baseball video-game enthusiast knows, there are basically two kinds of baseball games: the arcade-ish and the simulation. With some exceptions (VR Sports), mostly that delineation has been the former for console games, the latter for PC games.

High Heat Baseball 2002 bridges that gap and offers the best of both worlds. Aside from baserunning, it's fairly easy to play, while it offers awesome replays of strikeouts, HR's, and defensive gems. And the realism is as good as a PS2 gamer has a right to expect. Nomar does his toe-tapping routine, Sosa has awesome opposite-field power, Randy Johnson will strike you out twice an inning.

Like real baseball, if you try the same sequences of pitches to same batter in consecutive batters, you'll get stomped on like a narc at a biker rally. Even better is that the game can be as simple (automatic fielding, defensive alignment, baserunning, etc.) or as difficult (errors, wind, variable umpires) as you want it to be.

High Heat MLB 2002 Scores Big

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

High Heat Basebll is an excelent game. It has a lot of great toches, umpire ejections, dropped third strikes, passed balls, and costly errors. Unlike most BB games you can earn a walk. The season mode is compeltly adjustable, you can pay anywhere from one to one hundred, sixty-two games. The number of fans depends on how good your ballpark and team is. Altough, missing a couple of important parts, create a player and home run derby, I recommend this to everybody at all skill levels. Just a warning you will probably play this game more than you plan to, I do.

A Must Have for A Baseball Fan

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After I bought my Playstation 2 I decided I would go and purchase a baseball game immediately, and at the time that was available was Triple Play Baseball and it was terrible, so I decided to go and find another game to take its place, only I wanted to get my first PC Sports game. I read through all of the reviews and decided High Heat was the game for me...

-First of all the game is amazing, the AI is the best of any sports game out there. It includes realistic box scores, league leaders, trades, free agents, injuries and a fantasy draft mode(if that is what you are looking for)It is moderately difficult to hit homeruns, but you will find throughout a full season, as the player goes through hot and cold streaks in the end he will end up just about where he will in real life.

-Second, the graphics are extremely underrated in the game, the batting stances are modeled after real life batting stances of the true MLB player. The stadiums are almost perfect, the only exceptions are the billboards.

-Last, the gameplay is great and the learning curve is fairly easy, withing a few games you should have the hang of it, and be hitting the ball fairly well on pro difficulty. The pitching is a bit harder, but once learn to paint the corners and mix in balls with strikes, you will find your pitching gets much better. I do have to recommend Microsoft's Sidewinder Game Pad, it gives the game more of a video game feeling and adds to the enjoyment of the game

-However, despite all of the great aspects of the game there are quite a few bugs, specificlly some people report problems with crashing during the game, the announcers voices do skip during the game, and there is a problem with Wrigley Field(I still have not experienced any of these problems). All of these bugs are fixable and 3DO is currently working on fixes for all of their reported problems, the game is excellent and I would definitely recommend it to all that are reading this review. The game is excellent

Thumbs up!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hands down, the best and most enjoyable baseball game on the PS2. The graphics aren't great but the gameplay is unmatched. Lots of fun and very competitive with tons of options to choose from.

The best baseball on the PS2!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one hot game. The graphics are good. The gameplay is fun and superb. Also, you get in a fight with the umpire and the crowd leaves if the game is a blowout and cheers is you hit a homer. Don't listen to the bad reviews, this game is good as any other baseball game on the PS2 if not better. Buy it!!

You must be kidding

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I read many of the reviews of High heat baseball and most of them said the game was great but the graphics were not so hot. Not so hot is the understatement of the year. The graphics are terrible. I mean worse than any PS1 game that I ever played. OK, the AI is pretty good but lets face it the graphics are what makes the game fun to play. The crowd noise and the announcers suck. You can jack a homer out of the park and the crowd barely reacts. The announcers repeat the same quotes over and over, many times the same comment will be heard consecutively. I wouldn't waste a dime on this game. My advice is to rent it before you buy it. I would recommend EA triple play. It does not have the AI that High Heat has but the game looks great and a lot more fun.

Not as good as Triple Play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you want a good baseball game by Triple play. EA has killer graphics and better game play.

This is the next generation of console gaming????

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

With all of the great-looking games out for the PS2, how can Sony possibly let this one slip through?!?!?

MLB 2001 on the PS1 looks better than this game. What happened to smooth animation? How about ANY animation? And the hunch-backed players look ridiculous, particularly with their broken wrists. The stadiums are OK...for a SNES game and the crowds are just pitiful.

Gameplay?!?!? I read a few reviews off of Amazon, and I think many people mistake gameplay for artificial intelligence. This game was the least fun I have ever had on a console baseball game, with the possible exception of Mike Piazza Strike Zone on the N64 or ESPN Baseball Tonight on the Genesis. The camera transitions are awful. Every pitch that is thrown looks like a lob - if there wasn't a radar gun, I'd swear every pitch was a sinker of some kind. What is that stick-like object for a strike zone indicator over the plate?

Realism?!? After waiting what seemed like forever for a season simulation to finish, the shoddy results were finally displayed on this awfully confusing screen. A-Rod drove in 193 runs. Helton and Nomar both batted over .400, .405 & .409 respectively. Pedro went 27-1. Fluke? Next season I simmed, Nomar hit .403 - amazing. Manny Ramirez drove in 191 and Danny Graves saved 59 games. Too bad I'm limited on space...

In-game realism you ask? Have you ever seen an outfielder throw from the base of a wall to home plate on a fly? Apparently Paul O'Neill can do that. Jorge Posada dropped a pitch for a passed ball, problem is that the pitch was a change up chest high over the plate. That was just in the first inning of play...

What game should you get then? ALL-STAR BASEBALL has some flaws, particularly with it's AI, but the GAMEPLAY is far better than HH2002. ASB simulations are better than HH 2002 and take much shorter time. I simmed about 15 seasons in the same amount of time that HH took to sim ONE. Get yourself a multi-tap, get three friends together and play a four player game of ASB 2002. Now THAT'S FUN. THAT'S GAMEPLAY.

Triple Play??? TPB is more of an arcade-style game, but is far from being a fun NFL Blitz/ NBA Jam style of sports game. At least it LOOKS good.

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