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Another Terrible MLB 2K Series Addition

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 17
Date: March 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible! The graphics are the same as before. The hitting is glitchy and absolutely horrendous. Players glitch and run through each other. You may see a ground rule double go into the stands and then, the next thing you know, you see the ball back on the warning track rolling! The motions are unrealistic and the players don't really look that great. The fielding is easier than last year but is still very glitchy. This game is not at all worth the money.

A down year for 2KSports

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I get 2KSports baseball game every year. When the playability is good, I play entire seasons and its pretty much the only game I play for an entire summer. When the playability is bad, I get through a few games and it goes on the shelf.

This game sits on the shelf for me. Too difficult to hit and pitch this year unless you're in rookie mode, and in that mode no fun to hit 15 home runs a game.

Too many bugs -- stay away

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been really, really trying to look past the bugs in this game, but I've finally hit my breaking point. This game is so full of bugs that it's unplayable. It literally freezes about 15% of the time for me. And no, it is not my Xbox. As a software developer, I understand that you cannot fix every bug or else you'd never ship. But to deliver a product with massive defects is inexcusable. Add in the fact that the opposing pitchers never throw balls and there is no contact swing, that seals the deal. 2K Sports -- epic fail. I will not be buying MLB 2k9 no matter what. [...]

Reminds me of the late 90's bug filled Baseball games

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Fun to play when the game does not freeze up. Too many glitches in Franchise mode to count. Cut scenes are horrible. IMPOSSIBLE TO DRAW A WALK even with the sliders turned completely to the left for AI pitching accuracy. I was very dissapointed considereing this is the 360 and we are now in the year 2008. MVP Baseball 2005 is far supperior to this. This is what happens when there is a monopoly. The game makers get lazy. One other thing, just like 2k07 the farther you get in franchise years the more bugs...

Worst babeball game I have ever played!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Other than the graphics, this game is horible. I have never play a baseball game that I have disliked as much as this one. It does not play well at all. The pitching interface sucks not to mention the hitting interface. The MLB series (MLB '08: The Show) is the best baseball sim out there. I can not stress this enough. Dont buy this game. It is the worst [...] I have ever spent in my life. I would rather marry my cheating ex wife again than play this game again.

The worst sports game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was very hard for me to play. I do not recomend this game to anyone who loves to play sports games.

Bring back MVP Baseball, 2k sucks.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

MLB 2k8 I would say is the worst baseball game I have ever played. There are no good features to this game. The gameplay is so bad that it is almost impossible to play a realistic game. For one the batting is fine on pro mode, but the pitching absolutely sucks. For example I can not pitch agood game at all with dominate aces like Johan Santana. YOur closers will suck. I had K-Rod, who we know is absolutely dominate had a 9.60 ERA for me. Now that is very unrealistic. Before that I had Billy Wagner with a six run lead in the bottom of the ninth, he gives up like five home runs. Total control pitching is garbage because every pitch you throw is served on a silver platter to be crushed. Precision pitching is not much better. Batters still crush the ball. And it is not like this happens rarely, it is consistent that your pitching will be horrific. If you play on rookie mode you still will give up about ten to fifteen runs, but at the same time you will score twenty to twenty five runs. Easy routine fly balls are very difficult because if you don't call off everyone there will be a collision. For a 360 game the graphics suck, I'd say they are in the range of Allstar Baseball 2003 for xbox (not that Allstar Baseball was a bad series because it was great). I wanted to sell this game to Game Stop to get some money back out of the forty dollars I pissed away. But what I decide to do to kill the frustration of the game was to snap it. But the most thing I was disappointed about was that 2k made this. Now 2k usually makes amazing games. Look at basketball, it dominated EA in my mind. But this game is atrocious.I feel 2k should have their MLB liscence revoked and give it to EA because MVP Baseball 2004 was much better then this garbage. My best advice for all 360 users is to stick with the old MVP games. If you have PS3 or PS2 you at least have MLB 08 The Show so if you want to play an updated baseball game you are not subjected to absolute garbage.

What the heck happened???

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: March 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game and I'm glad I did. The graphics are big step backwards from MLB07. The text in the menu's are so tiny on standard TV you can't read them. The pitching and hitting systems are pretty nice, but this game does not look like a next-gen game. Very disappointed!!!

The Lesser of Two Choices for Baseball

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A review of MLB2K8 is pretty much impossible without comparing it to the only other baseball game out there, MLB08: The Show (and no I don't count 'The Bigs' which is horrible).

There are major differences between the games. 2K8 uses an analog scheme for everything, which I actually like more than the button pressing in 'The Show'. The problem with 2K8 is that the analog controls are incredibly finicky (although they are much better on the Xbox than the PS3, for some reason). And if you make a slight mistake in your gesture - or even sometimes when you make a perfect gesture - the AI team will PUNISH you with a deep home run or triple into the corner. Those guys never hit singles.

Another problem with 2K8 is the ridiculous "batter's eye" that never works. You have this tiny little sphere you can place somewhere in the gigantic strike zone, and I have never - NEVER - seen it correctly predict a pitch. Unlike 'The Show', if you predict wrong you get no information whatsoever about the pitch. You just have to time it.

The hitting itself feels better, to me, than 'The Show' with a pull back and swing forward motion (step on the egg shell, crush the bug) that really feels good. No real complaints here, except when I look like an idiot swinging early at a changeup. It also lets you pull or push the ball by slightly changing your stroke.

So it has better pitching (when it works), better hitting, better throw control. Why two stars? Well, because there are tons of bugs. As mentioned before the pitching interface will have you randomly giving up gofer balls, or perfectly executed pitches flying wildly out of the strike zone. At times it can seem like your every contact with the ball goes right to an enemy fielder, or they make highlight reel plays to catch shots that were destined for the outfield. It's like you can feel the game cheating - I had a situation where an opposing batter hit a high pop fly and I was given control of a fielder. He was right next to where the ball would come down, so I pushed right to get him closer. He overstepped. I pushed left. He overstepped. I'm frantically trying to get him into position, and the ball drops - ruining a perfect shutout and giving the computer the advantage. Conspiracy, or just buggy? Who cares. It still ruins the experience.

The presentation is muddled. The game slows down horribly at random times. The graphics look outdated, and the one little trick they added of the players' shirts ruffling in the wind just looks like Z-fighting. The announcers make ridiculous calls that rarely match the play. The game can't even figure out what's going on - I hit a ball off the foul pole and the words 'Ground Rule Double!' popped up while my guy was rounding the bases with his hands in the air.

Everybody says that 'The Show' is the better game, and unfortunately they're right. Conceptually 2K8's control scheme is better but it is so poorly executed that I'd rather just push buttons - at least with 'The Show' I know the game will mostly do what I tell it.

You can, of course, download the demo and try it for yourself. Maybe you'll like it - and of course if you don't have a PS3 you're stuck with this one for baseball. But 2K Sports needs to get this game in order. Clean up the bugs, fix the outdated graphics, and make the controls more consistent and they'll easily win over 'The Show'.

Rent before you buy!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have many complaints with this game.

First of all, it is pretty glitch heavy. It takes forever to load on several screens, and with no status bar that leaves the user wondering if the game has simply frozen.

Second of all, the learning curve is, as others have said, pretty damn steep. Pitching is insanely difficult. The slightest twitch in your thumb will frequently cause a wild pitch or the batter to slug a home run.

Third of all, the cut scenes during the game take way too long to load and are jerky. There is no smooth action to the gameplay. Even when I modified the settings to eliminate the cutscenes, the movement was still hesitant and jerky. During the fifth inning of one of my games during a batter change for the opposing team, the "End of Game" screen came up and announced that the game was over! I thought for a second, "Okay, cool. I'm winning," but when I got to the franchise screen it did not count that ball game as having been played.

Please rent before you buy. I'm glad I did. I almost shelled out $60 for this game until I remembered that I had a free rental coupon. There are far too many glitches in this game for me to find it entertaining.

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