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All Bluff and no Stuff

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game has great graphics, of course; but the game play is equally reciprocated. In this game you are only allowed to throw and hit. All the excitement of robbing your opponent of a home run with a stellar catch or a taking away a base hit with a diving catch is taken away. You cannot play defense at all! Your job is to throw in the right direction, but that is even tasking because the response time is so slow that you have to press the throw button repeatedly. Even if you get the throw off in time, your player receiving the throw will take a couple seconds before he finally attempts to make a tag; and by then it's obviously too late. Speaking of delayed reactions, the commentary is too monotonous and belongs with the ranks of Genesis games. I would take the classic, "Bases Loaded", over this junk any day.

Worst Baseball Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This has to be the worst game I've seen. The graphics look nice but the game play is the absolute worst. The user interface for pitching and hitting is clumsy and awkward. You cannot field for yourself and the computer does a poor job. This game is a waste of money and time. The player movements are choppy and the hame is no fun. I have found this to be a common problem with dreamcast games which is why as soon as I can get my hands on one I will be buying a Playstation 2 and getting rid of the Dreamcast. Instead of playing Sega's baseball game, I break out my old Playstation and fire up a game of TriplePlay 2001 whihc I still consider to be one of the best baseball games.

How this game maintains a 4 star rating we may never know...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I expected a lot from Sega as they have delivered on almost every account of the "World Series Baseball" series (no pun intended). Also with the Dreamcast finally deciding to show its true ability, I saw stills of this game and was in awe. This very quickly ended as I first played the game. Oh my god, yes the graphics are amazing. That is where it ends. Players are detailed and stadiums are replicated down to the upperdeck chairs. But this cant save the game. The control is quirky at best, batting is a real hastle. Hmm, perhaps defense will be better. No, quite the contrary. There is absolutely no fielding whatsoever. The ball flys in the air and the computer moves a player to the spot then u decide which base to throw too. Sound like fun? Didnt think so. Lets go try another mode. HA! No extra mode for you! We are presented with exhibition and season. Oh well, lets try playing a season with some of our friends. Nope, cant play on the same team as a friend. With lack of extras, poor control and lack of it as well, and no team playing, this game avois a 1 star with its amazing graphics. This game is horrid to play and I strongly suggest playing Tommy Lasorda Baseball for Sega Genesis over this game. At least you can field....

This game has no balls and two strikes.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is not a complete lemon, but it's clearly not all it could be. The promised hot-cold analysis of hitters is non-existent. There is no option to turn off the automatic fielding; this is especially irksome when outfielders don't actually try to catch the ball or do, and then stand around admiring the lush environs rather than making the play at the plate. Your baserunners are worse than T-ball players, taking off at full clip when a Texas-league fly goes up with no outs. Thus, you have to manually send them back EVERY TIME, which they don't even do with consistency, much less aplomb. Then when you want them to tag up and run, they don't go anywhere. On the plus side, the pitching interface is well-done and intuitive. The graphics, of course, are very good, and that's important, but even they seem incomplete. Baserunners seem to be missing a frame of animation, giving one the impression of waddling to first base. Create a player is good, allowing you to choose from numerous batting stances (some based on actual hitters) and pitching styles (for pitchers, obviously, and also with some based on actual players). The game generates fairly realistic scores, and can create some nail-biters, but really only in two-player mode. At least with two players, when your shortstop refuses to throw the ball or your rightfielder is too busy eating a hotdog to make a catch, there's an even chance of it going for or against you. I haven't played very many baseball videogames, so I feel like I'm fairly unpredisposed to harshness, but just play this one before you buy, and if you're a hardcore videogame baseball fan, I'm betting you'll want to take on this wild pitch of a game.

Amazingly FUN Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: July 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, especially if you're a casual gamer.

This game derives from an actual arcade game, and so there is not as many features as in a "simulation" console game which is the reason some people don't click with it. For people like me, I much prefer the simplistic style of World Series Baseball.

It basically has taken the game down to the core strategies. Most of the game is dependant upon your batting and pitching, just like in real life. Instead of controlling outfielders, you set up where they stand (close, far, different positionings), then the computer uses their real life statistics to figure out the likelyhood that they will blunder or not. It is actually much more realistic in this regard. You still have to control when and where they throw the ball.

The pitching and batting is definitely one of the best systems ever created after you get used to it. It is so perfect that you can turn off the handicaps and crank the difficulty up and the amount of hits/home runs/pop ups/and so on that you bat will be EXACTLY like your player's real life statistics.

If you know the game of baseball, and know how to change up your pitching or predict how a baseball is being thrown by watching a pitcher, you will LOVE this game.

Don't listen to the critics! They are expecting an 'old school' baseball game where you have to take your little outfielder and run under the shadow to catch a popup, they refuse to accept change!

One of the best sport games ever been played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 27
Date: April 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This new baseball game is great. Everything is so realistic and u feel like u are right there at the game. I recamend this for every age. Go out and buy this new game.

...further proving that the Dreamcast is a great system

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 31
Date: July 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

World Series Baseball 2k1 is by far my most anticipated summer buy, and I have no doubt that it will be worth the wait. Except for Quarterback Club, every sports game for Dreamcast has been second to none, and world series baseball will surely raise the bar. Here's mud in your eye, Electronic Arts, and a little pine tar in your shorts.

SWING and a MISS...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sega has never let us down with every release of its top-notch baseball game, World Series Baseball. It has always been the game to beat. Until now. It boggles the mind how Sega refused to even remotely worry about the people actually playing this piece of garbage. Sure, the graphics are the most superb I've ever witnessed. But the inability to control your fielders is NOT a good thing. Add that to the fact that your fielders also seem to be playing for your opponents,(I'm sorry, but you just do not wait until a line drive is right next to you before deciding to move after it.) and you've got the worst game ever. Not the worst sports game, the worst GAME EVER. PERIOD. I WOULDN'T MAKE MY WORST ENEMY PLAY THIS.

Graphics: 9 - it just don't get better Control: 4 - yeah, so you can throw and swing... so what? Sound: 5 - it's a baseball game... what'd you expect, Metallica? "Fun-ocity": 2 -me no like much.

OVERALL: 1 star - This game is a lot like those certain girls in High School; looks good, but you still wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole.

Total stink-bomb

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm just going to throw in my two-cents worth and mention something that it seems alot of people have failed to notice: The missing animations. The batter goes from a full swing to ready stance in the blink of an eye. There's no animation for him to bring the bat back over his shoulder, nothing. Your shortstop will go from flat on his belly from diving for a ball to standing up, again, with no animation. That's just pathetic, and I feel tremendously ripped off. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go play RBI Baseball on my NES.

Months Later....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

At first, I hated the game because of the ridiculous non-fielding thing, the difficult hitting and pitching, and the poor baserunning. Now, going through a season, I have different impressions. First of all, no game of any sort of any sport has ever captured the essence of individual players like this one. Look at Nomar swing, Hideo Nomo pitch, it is so on point that its scary. Once you get going in a season, raise the levels to legend, and fiddle with handicaps as you need, you get an incredible game. As far as fielding, you DO control your man as far as being early to point in the direction that the ball will go to make plays, and getting off quick throws. You also set up where you want your fielders so that if there's a man on second, only if you bring your outfield in do you have a chance of throwing out the runner trying to score on a base hit. There are some annoying quirks, still, especially when your second baseman fields a ground ball next to first base.

Pitching is awesome. Once you figure out the pitches, which naturally make sense (up for heat, down for change, side for slider, down and away for curve, etc.) you realize that you can have different levels of fastballs and curveballs which are most effective at certain times. Even though I've become an awesome pitcher, with Pedro, Hideo (and, well, Bartolo Colon got onto the Sox in my season, too), strikeouts are hard to get against the computer. You don't always want your fastball at the highest limit, for example. Aiming is cool because you don't have a cursor, you can be off, just like a real pitcher. Hitting is cool because the players are so real. You learn their stride, their swing, their timing, and you're ready to go. Pitch selection can be difficult to learn. Baserunning still ..., the players are slow to respond when you tell them to go in a certain direction, it's difficult to work with more than one runner, especially say, stealing second with a man on first and third, while trying to hit the ball as well. During a season, the staistics are kept well, but the All-Star game is a fluke, it just gives you the default rosters with players on their original teams, even if you've done trades during your season. Also, you should be able to play against people during a season and why not be able to play any game druing a season, like the old NBA Live games from Sega Genesis. In all, I am completely satisfied with this game now. The graphics are awesome and the game play gets better with time.

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