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You've gotta be kidding!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: April 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the absolute worst PS2 games I have ever seen. At best HH baseball looks like an average PS1 game! I have now played all 3 PS2 baseball titles and with out a doubt HH is no where near the quality of TP or ASB, and that's not saying much since I wasn't all that thrilled these 2 either. The other reviews talk about realistic game play, the fact of the matter is the graphics and player animations are so bad, that any realism is lost because of this! My final ratings as follows: 1.) Triple Play: Great graphics, gameplay ok once you get used to it. 2.) All Star Baseball: OK graphics, horrible AI, has bugs. 3.) HH Baseball: Horrible graphics, gameplay ruined by graphical glitches.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Good Extra Features, no strategy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 22
Date: April 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First off, I am not 1, I just didn't want to get into registration for being over 13.

High Heat was the first of the baseball games I've tried on the PS2 so of course I had high expectations. Truth is, I don't see how so many other people like this game so much. The only good I've seen in this game is arguments with the umps and ejections. At first I thought the gameplay was alright until I returned it to ... and bought Triple Play 2002. Now let me compare the 2 games and show you which game leads in each category.

1) Graphics - Triple Play 2002 leads in this one easily. The details on the stadiums are just outstanding, even better graphics than Madden 2001. Every detail is included on players and stadiums in Triple Play, they even have the new stadiums of each teams. While on the other hand High Heat does have good graphics, they could be better.

2) Modes - Triple Play 2002 again leads in this category. Triple Play has many modes including Tournament, Exhibition, Playoffs, Season, and Home Run Derby. And yes, you can create your own player. However, High Heat only has Season, Exhibition, and All-Star modes. And you can play All-Star in Triple Play by selection AL All-Stars and NL All-stars in exhibition mode.

Before I get into this next category, I must tell you that I go for strategy and realism, not extra features. I do find that Triple Play 2002 has MUCH more strategy than High Heat. In fact, I find that High Heat has very little strategy at all. You'll see why in the following.

3) Gameplay - Gameplay could be broken down into different sub-categories as in hitting, running, pitching, fielding, etc. so with that I will give you my opinion on each of them.

Batting - To surprise some of you, I do fully believe Triple Play has better batting, and no I do not like 15-14 ball games (hardly are ever high scoring games when played on right difficulty). Many people say that Triple Play is home run happy so let me correct everyone here, yes... playing on ROOKIE in TP is home run happy, but that is just like every game. Why? Because rookie is for beginners. If you do set the difficulty level up you do find it hard to score, in fact Randy Johnson pitched a No-hitter against me when I was playing as the Florida Marlins to lead the Diamondbacks to a 1-0 victory. Doesn't sound too high score for me. I find most games to be around 4-3, 5-4 ball games. Hitting has a lot more variable places to go than High Heat. In TP, you have balls down the lines, up the gaps, over their heads, just in front of them, bloopers, and even grounders bouncing off the mound over the infielders. Where as High Heat has baseballs hit to usually the same areas. I have also found that scoring is much easier on High Heat at the highest level than Tp at it's highest level. I've had plenty of games in High Heat ending in 10-2 victories. I've actually hit 2 home runs in the same game with my pitcher, Matt Clement, in High Heat... who is the one thats home run happy? Advantage - Triple Play

Fielding: Fielding is basically equal on this. The only SLIGHT problem is with Triple Play when there are HARD line drivers through the infield, if you try to make a quick diving catch you may have dove with the wrong player. I've sometimes forgot to switch players with the triangle button, but this is memorized after 2 or 3 games, no big problem at all. Advantage - Equal (possibly High Heat if you don't get over the switching players)

Pitching: Pitching with Triple Play is the best, you pick your pitch, how fast you want it, and where you want it to be. Now High hEat fans say realistic pitching you can't put it in the exact spot.... well just because you put the cursor there doesn't mean the ball goes there! All pitchers aim for the spot, they just don't always get it. Duh! When the pitcher gets tired, the ball finds itself ending up farther from the cursor than it was in the frst inning. High Heat has pitching where you choose the pitch and if it is a strike or ball, they don't have the aim cursor or the option of the speed on the pitch. So off-speed pitches are off limits in High Heat. Advantage - Triple Play

Running: Running is a big factor in ball games. Stealing bases can decide a game so they are important. I find it much more difficult to steal in Triple Play (thats a good thing). In High Heat, Luis Castillo, Florida Marlin second baseman, has 23 stolen bases in 15 games with a 100% stolen base avaerage. However, I am 30 games into the Triple Play season and have 13 stolen bases with my entire team.... you decide. Advantage - Triple Play

I will never buy another edition of High Heat.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this game because I needed a baseball game for PS2 and I'm a big Guerrero fan. Oh, how I was disappointed. The game play is actually pretty good. I like the fact that there's no cursor for batting. It really feels like it takes some baseball knowledge to play, as you have to guess kind of pitch and location, which I actually got pretty good at after playing about 20 games. However, this doesn't overshadow the many cons of the game.
There are a laundry list of problems with the game. The scenes where the players walk to the plate is choppy. The dugouts are empty. Sometimes when you hit a homerun it looks like the guy is running across the plate from the first base side. The pitcher is choppy when throwing a pitch, and after throwing a pitch he goes straight back to his original stance, so he'll go instantly from crouching forward in front of the rubber after a pitch to standing on the rubber with no transition. The batter goes from the end of his swinging motion right back to his original stance (pretty much the same as the complaint about the pitcher). The umpires spin around as the "camera" spins around them, which looks stupid, but not as stupid as the fact that they have faces on both sides of their head. If the camera is rotating and you are pressing forward, your player runs in circles, because the controls are in relation to the view on the screen. I know there's more, but I don't have all day.
The problems seemed insignificant at first, but they pile up quickly and become very irritating. The game play is good, I don't know why 3DO had to cheap out when it came to touching up all the graphics parts of the game. The most irritating part is that the problems would have been easily fixable with a little bit of work. It's not like they were major bugs in the game. Neglecting these problems just looks like laziness on the part of 3DO, and it is that fact that will lead me to buy All-Star Baseball when the 2003 baseball games come out.

Could have been a LOT better!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I don't have much to say about this game other than it has the worst possible graphics of all baseball games I've ever played. The gameplay is good, but the graphics is very poor. When I pitch, I like to have a pithcer's camera on, and when you take a look at the catcher, it's pityful. All the time he is half-standing and half-sitting. This is bull. I only give this game 2 stars for gameplay.

If graphics is impportant for you, buy an All-Stat baseball. Game.

I hope that High Heat 2003 is going to be better.

Bad graphics and a lack of realism ruin this game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: May 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

To begin, let me just say that I don't understand why people think that this game is so good. Firstly, the graphics are extremely poor when you consider the power of the PS2. Even given the most advanced graphics engine on the planet, 3DO still managed to make this game's graphics look like an old 16-bit cartrige. In addition, this game lacks realism. The fielders take forever to reach the ball, even when it is just grounded to the shortstop. Also, it is impossible to warm up pitchers or locate any pitches with any accuracy at all. Overall, if you are looking for a great baseball game for the PS2, go with Triple Play Baseball. It has better graphics, a better pitching engine, and the fielders stay awake. This game was a huge disappointment.

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.

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