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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 30
Date: January 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I always liked baseball games and thought they are fun and entertaining. The pitchin is the best to me. I never bought Allstar baseball 2003 but I rented it about 5 times thats all that I have to say bye

Bring Back the Long Sleeves

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

From what I have seen, "All-Star Baseball 2004" has all the elements which made its predecessors the best baseball franchise in the digital world - plus infinitely more! I am almost losing sleep, waiting to play it! I can only hope that Acclaim has rectified the major flaw in "All Star Baseball 2003": no long sleeves. "All Star Baseball 2002" had them! Why not last year's installment? The players sporting long sleeves in the inclimate weather made the game much more realistic.

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I went out and bought this game the day it came out. I was looking for the PS2 version of it but the store i went to only had it for gamecube. It is way better then any other baseball title coming out this year. It has great graphics, gameplay, and controls. It has both franchise and expansion modes with many options not found in other games such as minor leagues, contract extensions, and budgeting. the only problem with this game is the amount of space you need. To save a franchise you need at least 240 blocks of memory. not many memory cards have this many blocks.When i bought it i had to buy the memory card 251 to save my franchise. So you should definately by this game but either get it for PS2 or xbox, or make sure you have a lot of room on your memory card.

Best one to date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played All-Star Baseball since N64 and this is by far the best to date. After the terrible 2002 and the improved-but-rough 2003 installments, this one is a pleasant surprise!

Gameplay:
The best feature is the much, much deeper FRANCHISE MODE, which follows the option/waiver rule--you can't just move players up and down the major and minor as you please-if a player has no more option left, you have to pass him through waiver, and likely some other teams will pick him up. You can also control the 40-man roster, trading block (let other teams know who you are interested in trading), sign long-term contract DURING the season, decide on coaching, scouting budgets, and high-and-low minor leagues.

In-game features:
The main gameplay is pretty much the same as 2003, but many details has been inproved.
INSTANT REPLAY: TV-like angles with more than a dozen to choose from and whenever you want, even to see if a check-swing has gone too far!
CHECK-SWING, REALISTIC ERRORS, EJECTION, CATCHER STOPS THE HITTER FROM CHARGING THE MOUNT, and OFF-THE-LINE THROWS: They probably learned quite a bit from High Heat Baseball, but it looks so much better.
MOUNT VISIT: Shows the condition of your pitcher (rattled, fatigued, etc.) and the coach's suggestion.
BETTER A.I.: It's much harder to get a triple because the CPU finally has learned not to throw everything to the second base from the outfield. CPU's pitching has also become tougher and it's possible to draw lots of walk if you are patient.
BETTER GRAPHIC: It's no Slugfest, but overall it's much cleaner and some faces are really life-like. Also the batter's head will follow the ball in the HR replay.
FASTER PACE: Again, don't expect the pace like Slugfest, but this is much finer gameplay.

Few things to complain about:
SLIGHTLY OLD LINEUP: I wish they could have waited for a month so they could at least include Matsui. If anyone can find Kevin Miller please tell me!
SOUND: Very minimum crowd noise and effect. The commentary is somewhat dry and repetitive. But VERY GOOD voices of the umpires (they are different).
ONLY ONE BATTING/HITTING CAMERA: There are simply no option to change this.
CPU Hitting: is a bit weak and too selective in general.
BASE STEALING: Too easy, as long as the pitcher does not use slide move. And many never do.
EJECTION: You can choose to pitch "bean ball" (usually above the neck) and that pretty much means ejection. But there are quite a few time I pressed the button (R1) by mistake--because R1 was the button to get a closer look at the runner on first for previous All-Star games--and was ejected in the first inning and had to start over. Also if you pitch very inside just twice, it's an ejection. Your hitter might also get hot too easy after being hit, and that also result in ejection. I think it's too sensitive.
LOOK ALIKE: Most players are not so different from each other in the batting box or pitching mount, but so do many other games. And you don't get the ritual dance of Nomar!

Where's multi team season mode???

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: March 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

With all the new games hitting the market in the next two weeks, I didn't want to get burned buying...without checking it out first.
That's what I have done with ASB 2004.

After playing it for 3 hours I would rate it as a 3. Having owned the ASB 2003 on PS2...What I don't like about his series is that they don't give you the option to select all or as many teams to play a season mode. It ABSOLUTELY drives me nuts. Most of the other games on the market allow you to control as many teams you'd like to simulate a season, however in my option they lack the realism in graphics. This game once again for 2004 you can only select one team...boring.

That's currently my biggest hangup, also another one is not allow you to trade players in exhibition mode... what's up with that.
Improvements...the graphics have improved, better realistic environmental lighting, shadows on the field, in the stands, theme music when batters approach the plate... the players faces and mannerisim are realisticly scary like how barry bonds, jim edmonds, sammy sosa camp under fly balls it looks like you are watching a real presentation. I like when programmers look at these details because they should realize gamers look for this too, good job.
Overall the game has included alot of new twists, alot
of the the classic fields, Fobbs field Crosby field,along with some future fieds like what Wrigley field would look like with a double decker uppper deck in the outfileld.
In closing...I think I will wait to play the other 4 games on the market to see if it offers some of the other features i look for in a game before i purchase one. if you don't look for the two options i mentioned above then this game might be the one for you however, Had they included the other options I can't see another game on the market competing with All-star baseball for overall fun.

PRETTY NICE DUUUUDE!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is way too much like the previous game ASB 2003. The only great thing about this game is that the music rules, the options are practically infinite, and you can save during a game (AWESOME!!!!) But they really need to make this game better than the previous so that buyers will want to look forward to this game

251 or 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I highly enjoy this game so far. There is much more "realism" than past games. My only complaint is the about of memory card this eats up. You'll have to get a memory card 251 or 2 for this one. I'd suggest thinking about the PS2 version is you own one.

Holy Cow !!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What a game very good graphics and the future stadiums look good.
I enjoy playing this game even though Im a Red Sox fan . Good game well done !!!!

Just another baseball title.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: April 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the poorer baseball titles out there. Get MLB Slugfest, WSB 2k4, or High Heat Baseball 2004 before you even consider this one. It's not good. You've been warned.

Not bad... for a Yankee

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: April 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OK, I'm a huge baseball fan, and a Red Sox fan, so here goes...

Not a bad effort. For a benchmark, I use my favorites: Earl Weaver Baseball for the Amiga, and World Series '95 for the Genesis. First off, the graphics are OK, not great. I have to admit that the graphics for World Series 2K2 for the Dreamcast were as good, if not better. However, the strategy is far superior. I love the mound visits, the defensive changes, and the fact that you have to warm up your pitchers. There are a few minor glitches, however. I've hit a few balls that were caught in foul territory, yet I was able to run my baserunners around the bags because the fielder just hung on to the ball. Oh well. Also, there are a lot of pop-up outs. Note to Acclaim -- cut down on the infield flies. They don't happen 6 times a game. Plus, as a Red Sox fan, it's near sacriledge to assign David Ortiz the number 27. That's Carlton Fisk's! You may have heard of him -- he's a Hall of Famer.
So far, I've played some very realistic games. A 10-8 win, a 7 -4 loss, a 3-2 win. Nice, old fashioned nail-biters. The GM features are well done, and are a nice added dimension. Also, it's nice to be able to strike out opposing batters for once. In most games, the computer never swings at balls, and never misses at strikes. However, batting is very difficult on the normal level. Pitches come in extremely fast, and it's difficult to adjust. I guess it will come in time, though. I was surprised that Fenway has the Monster seats, yet Kevin Millar is nowhere to be found.
I wish there was one option that I haven't seen since Earl Weaver for the Amiga -- the ability to DESIGN YOUR OWN STADIUM. I wish a game would allow for this. Maybe someday, before I'm old and gray. All in all, 4 out of 5. Not perfect, but pretty darn good, and I'm a stickler. I traded in Zelda for this, because Zelda was too 'kiddie', and I was itching for some longball. I haven't been dissappointed.

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