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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!

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 !!!!

great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

120% better than all star '03, and still the best baseball game out there...

best baseball game out there

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

hands down. the most important attribute is the gameplay. it's the most realistic out there, which makes pitching and hitting fun. the discrepancy in the speeds of different pitches (eg fastball - changeup) makes the game. pedro is deadly in this one... still not as good as Baseball Stars for the original NES, but 2nd best for sure.

A very good baseball game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics & gameplay have been subtly improved, but it's real strength, like last year's version, relies in bonuses. You can tour every featured past, present, & future stadiums, watch 20-30 videos (mainly interviews with Derek Jeter, Cal Ripken Jr., & Buck O'Neil) buy cards to unlock extras, play trivia, play with 110 legends such as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, & Lou Gehrig, and do scenarios and pick-up games. If it were easier to hit borderline triple-digit pitches and play infield, this would be perfect. 4.75 stars.

Acclaim Sports hits a homer with this game!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best baseball games around! The graphics are so cool and realistic! The game controll is so real, as just like you were playing in the game! This is a game that is good to buy so go get it!

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.

LOVE THIS GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Game play is GREAT, graphics, stadiums top notch. And beyond that you can play specials such as scenerio mode. This mode puts you in real game situations from the previous REAL season with the same line up, the same everything. You're facing Randy Johnson in the 9th with one out and you're down by 9 runs, go to it. Beyond the game play, they have included 3-d stadium tours of all the parks, many from the past and renderings from plans for Future shea, Fenway, etc. You can have "pickup" fun games where you choose from a Major Leaguers who are just standing around and play at a farm field, urban playground and more. The announcing is top notch with Tom Brennaman and Steve Lyons. The announcing is absolutely dead on right. I buy the new version the minute it comes out each year and play it to death. Buy it for the excellent game play, then be surprised by all the terrific extras. After a while I even unlocked real video interviews with players from the old Negro Leagues. Love this game.

Baseball games

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

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