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Dated Graphics, Stuttering Sound, and Incorrect Stadiums :-(

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game leaves much to be desired. What the positive reviews are from people who love to play baseball sims. If you look at the Whole Baseball PC offerings this year (HHeat, Triple Play 2003?) and the others are all Manager type Sims not graphics games. You quickly see that the level of graphics is not on par with any of the other Hockey or Football PC Games. Look at NHL 2002 Hockey and the Rinks are great.. look at FIFA 2002 and the areana are sharp and the extras add to the environment. No such thing here ... the stadiums are pixelated and the crowd a big blurry blob texture...

The sound stutters on the most popular sound card (SB Live Series) ... or worse cuts out and then a loud instant on crowd noise sample is played .. really odd transitions like that.

Three River Stadium is still there (hey Pittsburgh has a new Stadium now)... maybe I am spoiled playing Quake III graphics games and NHL 2002 to see what you can do. No extras in the graphics no separate Dugouts in the stadiums. No intro video.

I got the feeling I got a Value Game Edition (like they give you free with Video Cards - the Light Edition) ... This should have been released as HH 2002 Gold. They put all the development money (my guess) toward the console versions (XBox/PS2) versions and just released a patched version of HH2002 in a new box.

The bad, the bad, and the ugly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible. I am not complaining about gameplay-it is terrible because I can NOT play it. First, the game does not recognize the keys of a USB gamepad. The pitching and hitting keys that work are different than showed in the documentation. Even when I figured out they keys, you are limited to simply throwing one pitch and swinging away. I can not believe 3DO could release a game and not test it with a USB port!! This makes the game unplayable. Second, Home Run Derby crashes in the middle and brings you back to your desktop. I could sit and list the problems I had once I FINALLY got a game going but I can summarize by saying-this is the worst game ever put out for the pc. This is not just a bad game, it is an unplayable bad game and my money has been wasted. I am so dissappointed because I finally upgraded my hardware enough to play the game people have raved about and it turns out to be junk.

Don't be fooled

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought the High Heat 2002 game and was reasonably satisfied. I played it on Win 98 and had a few problems, but nothing that took away from the experience of the game.

This year's 2003 offering is even WORSE than last year's! I'm using XP and 3DO must have not put any effort into testing or troubleshooting the game with XP. There are several major bugs that cause stuttering audio, random (and excessive) program crashes, and game play problems. Try to draft a team? Good luck, you'll wind with some people you didn't select, replacing guys you did and have no idea where they went.

Expect a patch? Good luck! 3DO issued 1 patch for HH2002 and it looked like they were aggressively persuing further patches to upgrade the product. Instead, they gave up and let the customers suffer with the program. This year, they look like they're not even bothering with 1 patch! The company puts a sub-standard product in stores, dares people to purchase it and doesn't stand behind it at all.

Don't waste your money, you'll be disappointed.

Bryan M.
Bowie, MD

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is horrific. It simply does not work out of the box. First of all, it does not recognize the game pad buttons if you have a USB hook up. Secondly, the Home Run Derby mode crashes in the middle of playing and sends you back to your desktop. Finally, the game itself plays terribly. Of course, I could not use all the buttons but this was a waste of money. I am extremely disappointed. I finally upgraded to a computer that could play this and now I am stuck playing my old Triple PLay 99, which by the way, is also 99 times better!! I wish I could get my money back. Under no circumstances should you buy this game.

DONT buy this thing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 21
Date: August 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

-1 star-Graphics-The graphics are terrible compared to any other game. Even of its not baseball, The graphics are inacceptable. All the people look the same accept for their race, and the outfit they are wearing. Half the players dont even have a picture.

-1 star-gameplay-This game was SOOOOOOOOO poorly made. In the easiest difficulty i lost 8-5. With the same teams in 2 harder difficulties, i won 35-0!!Also, u ALWAYS get away with stealing from first to second, but u NEVER be safe stealing from second to third.

-1 star- This game gets boring sOO eaily becuase it only has 2 good modes. There is practice, and exibition which is the same. Home run derby WHICH IS TERRIBLE BECUASE U CANT FACE THE COMPUTER!, and a season which is terrible because half way through the season u always get a roster problom which is impossible to fix.

-1 star-Crashes easily and takes 25 minutes to instal- this game which is about 300 meg took 25 minutes to install on my SUPER good 1.2 ghz amd athelon pc. Diablo 2 which is 1 gig, 3 TIMES THE AMOUNT!, took 3 minutes to install. Also, when u play this and u forget to close ur instant messeges, and u get an instant messege, the game minimizes. ONCE IT MINIMIZES, SAY GOOD BYE!! cuase once u click on the game to bring it back the screen turns black and it freezes.

Do not buy this game!

Major League Sucker

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: May 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Everything Sucks in this game. It's to easy to hit a home run. And Hey 3DO went bankrupt. I wonder why. Because it Sucks. Every Game they came out with (except Sarge's Hero's) all sucked.As Tommy Tallarico said in Judgement Day on G4 said it SUUUUCCCCCKKSSS. And then he threw it down on the Ground. Stay away from this sucker. 3D0 Sucks

A note on reviews...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Is it just me, or do these five-star reviews for games that nobody has even seen yet sound like PR pieces that 3DO is putting out, trying to get us to buy their game? HH2002 was a good game, no doubt...but a great game? Hardly. Looking at the 3DO website it doesn't sound as if there is that much really new with this version. So be cautious about these reviews.

This is becoming a trend, 3do...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For the past three off-the-shelf versions of High Heat there have been bugs galore.

I will name only the first three that come to mind...

You can't watch your team play in manager only mode... if you try it will kick you to your desktop after the top half of the first inning.

Trying to play Home Run Derby can make your computer hang.

Yet again, snafu with transferring seasons from older versions of the game.

I'm sure the game itself will be great once it is patched. So do yourself a favor and wait until it is. Even at the low shelf price it's not worth the frustration yet.

And I thought the past versions were inadequate

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

High Heat has never been a great graphics game. I'm assuming after this year's effort, it never will.

This years offering is buggier than ever. In the HR Derby, upon hitting a HR, the background images begin a spazmatic convulsion
as if demon possessed.

The box states its XP compatible; however, none of their other titles are. Yet, this is not an XP issue. I can play it; assuming I dont mind seeing the stadium metamorphesize before my eyes, and then have lights flickering in teh background the rest of the game.

One could assume there is some type of issue on my system. However, a friend bought a copy the same day I bought mine. Runing a lesser graphics card did not help. Windows 98 SE did not help, as it did the same on his computer.

There are no patches that I know of; at least none on their website. I have tried everything, and still cannot fix this.

On the plus side: the stadiums (when not on hallucentegetic drugs) look better than ever. With teh ti4600, the uniforms offer nice detail. Unfortunately, however, the faces are still generic. This was unforgiveable in 2000, its even more unforgiveable today.

IF for some reason, you STILL desire to purchase this game, may I offer this as a suggestion for the path:

C:\3DO\Hi Disappointment 2003

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game dosent even work and i surpass all of the requriements

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