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How to Beat Bill Gates and Win the World Series!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 16
Date: October 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I beat the Cleveland Indians four straight last year in the World Series (yes, I played 162 games). I was a Rookie. This year it was time to step up. The pitching is veteran but the batting is still rookie. The Dodgers, once again, are the best team in the major leagues.

Throw every pitch with a "power pitch". When your pitcher is down to 0% in health, immediately get him out of there and put in a relief pitcher who has the highest health rating. If they are all the same, put in the relief pitcher with the best ERA for last season (real life). You will have to check these. Pitch the ball down the middle each time. Learn to pitch a new kind of pitch everytime. 1,2,3,4,1,2, and so forth. Remove your relief pitcher immediately when he gets down to 0%. In batting, the power hit everytime. One exception. If the player is doing really badly, go to the normal swing. Never swing on a 3-0 pitch. Always swing on "line" pitches (those pitches on the white line) because of the "pull". Also swing on balls inside the rectangle.

Don't bother with "Triple Play". Fun and cute. But really for 10-year olds. I found "High Heat Baseball" to be crummy. But it might require a play station to be really good.

Buy the game if you love baseball. I pitched a no-hitter in little league and went 3 for 4. The newspaper reported it but referred to me as "Billy Butterfly". Ouch!

The perfect game for the true baseball fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you're anything like me, which means you follow baseball obsessively, charting stats, second guessing the general manager, etc., then you want this game on your PC. The graphics are sub-par, but the game far exceeds the competition in the team-building function. You can build your team with free agent signings, trades and minor league call-ups, possibly landing in the World Series. You can also simulate games and entire seasons, testing your roster against the rest of the league.

Bottom line: If you're looking for the best graphics and the smoothest gameplay, check out another option. But, if you are more interested in the game behind the game, give Microsoft Baseball a spin.

Awesome Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Microsoft Baseball 2001 is the best and coolest game I've ever played. I would highly recommend this game to anyone enjoys baseball. I play this game a lot and it has simple controls even my friend hit a homerun the first time he played. This is a great quality baseball game

Baseball

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

THis Is A Good Baseball game for my children it's just like experiencing the real baseball thing I think this is a great sport game and Pretty cheap too!

A great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

BB 2001 is the best game I have seen.The graphics are excellent,the faces of the players are realistic and that you can creat players is a big plus,because you can update the rosters of your team.And it has all the new ballparks Enron,etc. A great game for the realism buff

Baseball Mogul Technology

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am writing a review on the general managing aspect of this game. When I bought this game, the main reason I did was because of the new Baseball Mogul Technology. It was advertised that you could develop a farm system over years, sign free agents according to your teams cash supply, and make trades. I will explain each aspect of the mogul technology.

Your farm system is created by every year the computer will generate players whose names are derived from current players names. Some players will have great potential because of age, and some will just be very talented. Every year you can look at the players and see what they did at AAA. You can then promote them. You can set your lineup with a dh, or without, against a righty, or against a lefty.

The expenses of the game are as follows: If your team does well, your attendance is raised. You can see what your attendance is at any point in the year. The higer your attendance, the higher the revenue. At the end of the year, you can resign your free agents or let them go. You can then sign and free agent throughout baseball. During the season, teams offer you trades. If you are doing good, experienced players are offered to you. If you are struggling, your best players are desired for prospects in return. You can accept or decline any trade.

I hope I have described the general managing as best as i can. ...

1 of best baseball simulators

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: April 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In Baseball 2001 you can enjoy straight out baseball unlike the triple play series. TP2001 and Triple Play are much more advanced in features such as unique batting stances and player faces but it lacks realistic gameplay. Baseball 2001 doesn't include loud explotion when a homerun is hit and the commentary is much less repetitive. Microsoft Baseball is one of the few pc baseball games where you control where you swing. This makes the game more challenging and keeps you interested in the game. Although if you do not like this setting you can turn it off. The stadiums are amazing in this game but the players don't compare to TPB or High Heat 2002. When managing a season player trades and free agents are much more realistic because you have certain money that you make. If you want true gameplay and don't mind giving up a little for graphics by this, but if you want unrealistic arcade games go with the triple play series.

P.S.-The rosters aren't nearly as updated as High Heat 2002 or even Triple Play, but in the 2000 game you can update your rosters at Microsoft.

Its straight

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: May 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I buy a baseball video game, I look for it to be challenging on its hardest level, if it doesnt do that for me, I won't play the game too much. I recently played this game when I was at my friends house and I must say it was somewhat of a challenge, maybe because i don't play too much computer baseball. Ive always played it on actual video game systems. What I thought was unique was the fact that you can call up actual AAA players. I have not seen that in other video games, at least for video game systems. Yes, the game will freeze during points and it gets annoying but that happens in a lot of computer video games. I must admit, I've never seen a home run derby when the batter gets 1000 outs. I certainly hope this game stays challenging because when I had MLB 2000 for playstation I was blowing out teams by 20+ runs every game on the hardest level and it just got really boring. Personally I liked the game a lot more because there was a Red Sox player on the cover of it (Nomar), and I am a big Red Sox fan.

Overall this game is worth the price it sells for. If your going to play a lot of games in a row, make the limit at about 4-5 games or you might get sick of it, like any other video game.

Not terrific, but good.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: June 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Microsoft Baseball 2001 is a pretty good baseball game but not what you might expect. The graphics are good the faces of the baseball players are fantastic but the commentary is horrible. Some of the stuff they say has no relation to what's happening in the baseball game.

To me Microsoft Baseball 2001 lacks on giving the baseball felling that other baseball games do.

Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is fairly good. The graphics are good and the gameplay is fun. The problem with it though is it's too easy. I've pitched 5 perfect games one by denny neagle agansit the yankees and another a 10 inning perfect game by pedro martinez. I've also beaten the computer is the all-star mode 14-1. Another thing is that if you play multiple seasons with one team, it gets very tiring because the all the games are the same each year. Also the rosters are very behind and are hard to personally update. All in all though it is a good game. 4 stars to Microsoft Baseball 2001

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