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Baseball at its best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 22
Date: October 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

All right fans this is it....a true baseball video game!If you like games with real baseball players,the most realistic stadiums,create a player,a great multiplayer,the best system out there,and much more than this is a the game for you!Comin on Nov 18 along w/ its system Nintendo Gamecube!

I LOVE BASEBALL, and THIS IS BASEBALL AT IT's BEST!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think this season was baseball's best ever, and All-Star Baseball re-creates it perfectly. The season starts in Puetro Rico (like it did in real life this year) and the all-star game has unique banners and logos on the field just like it did during the season. The All-Star game uniforms are identical to the ones they wore in the homerun derby last year. The mascots dance around in the stadium. This game is for the TRUE baseball fan. Only someone who watches the little details of the real baseball season can fully appreciate this gem. The batting/pitcher interface is the best I've played. You can angle where you hit the ball. If anyone dislikes this game, they probably don't like baseball.

For Players of All Ages

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: February 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Nintendo, by way of the good folks at Acclaim, have come up with a winner for baseball fans and gamesters alike with "All-Star Baseball 2002," for the GameCube, which features cutting edge graphics and current rosters for all thirty Major League teams.

Once you get the basics down-- and there's a "batting practice" mode to help you do just that-- you can opt for playing a single "Exhibition game," or a complete 162 game season, with the further option of playing on a "Rookie," "Veteran" or "All-Star" level. Or you may just want to play a single series, an All-Star Game, a World Series, a Hall-of-Famers Game or have a Home Run Derby contest; all options from which you can choose.

When at bat, you can choose the "Easy hitting" mode or go for the visual aid that helps you connect with the ball and/or adds power to your swing. On the mound, you decide which pitch you want to throw, and you can opt for the feature that enables you to aim your pitch with pinpoint precision.

When your favorite team makes a trade or signs a new player, you're covered: Make a trade with another team or sign a player from among the free agents. And to add that new guy, there's the "Create a Player" feature that allows you to customize your new acquisition from the ground up.

Once you start, there's plenty of action, Big League style, and announcers Thom Brennaman and Bob Brenly are on hand to call the play-by-play and offer some info on all the players and how they play the game. Bunt, steal a base, scale the outfield fence or dive for the ball; you can do all of this and more with the Nintendo/Acclaim "All-Star Baseball 2002" for the GameCube, the one that puts you right down on the playing field for an experience that is just this side of virtual reality.

A really fun game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game along with my gamecube and I love it! I am a big baseball fan, and this game is the most realistic one I have ever seen! Player batting stances are amazingly accurate, and the pitching motions are perfect accurate too! Plus, what I found cool was that certain pitchers' best pitches are accurate too. Kaz has the nasty splitter, Darryl Kile has a great curve, and Pedro has everything working for him! I strongly recommend this game to everyone!

SIMPLY THE BEST

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I finally got a Gamecube and this is the first game I bought. All I can say is WOW!! The N64 version rocked, and this new version is WAY BETTER. The graphics are the best I have ever seen in a video game. The players look REAL. The stadiums look REAL. The animation, the mascots, etc...all look real. The hitting has a new improved 3-D icon we are already familiar with, and the pitching now lets you choose up to 6 different pitches, while other pitchers only have 2 to choose from. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this game is amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I recently purchased all star baseball 2002 with my nintendo gamecube and it is absolutely amazing. The graphics and gameplay are outstading and it really is neat how the game is commentated. The homerun derby, exhibition, season, allstar game, and batting practice modes are unbelievable.

Play Ball!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The level of detail and real baseball effect in this game is amazing! The creators of this game have to be serious fans. Every skill required in the game has been painstakingly simulated here. Makes you feel like you're actually on the field.

Best game while it lasted

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game. YOu could play seasons, (all of the home page of All Star Baseball 2002) I just got in to season and you can trade, I had the best team, but I found out my game was scratched (I scratched it) and so now I'm getting All Star Baseball 2003. I would get 2003 for the BEST baseball game for gamecube.

It's not hard to play at all! Some regretful flaws though..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: December 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have owned 4 or 5 baseball games during the last few years and I always play the 162 full season. When I first started the full season with ALL STAR 2002, the batting was almost impossible (it was worst since I only play in "all star" mode), but my team ERA was under 2 most of the time. For about the first 20 games, my team (Boston) was a few games above .500, and after that I was able to win 2 out of 3 easy.

FOR THOSE WHO SAYS THE GAME IS TOO HARD AND UNPLAYABLE, it's because you didn't try hard enough. This is the only baseball game in any systems that offers the most realistic timing from the pitcher's mount to home plate--which is very very fast! But I now have 3 players on my team hitting above .400, which is absurd, but not as much as when in N64's ALL STAR 2001 my Sammy Sosa hit 85 HRs and 255 RBIs!

Overall:
--great players and ball park details
--good crowd sound effect and fine but repetitive commentary.
--great image when you hit a homerun
--detailed record tracking (includes Who's HOT, Who's NOT)
--Challenging but playable
--finally it's possible to pitch a complete game! (even if your stamina gone to 0 and your pitches are not sharp anymore, you can still pitch effectively and not just result in injury as in 2001)
--lots of more realistic and new poses when catching and fielding
--detailed fielder's positions and selections of pitches.
--various camera angles on the replay

the bad:
--the notorious "freeze" of an outfielder after the ball hit the wall directly, thus requires another outfielder's rescue. Result: a triple or inside-the-park homeruns. (Hey, since CPU is effected by the same flaw, often it helps you to score too)
--Terribly scary and difficult to field the ball (I turn the AUTO on most of the time)
--The game will mess out your lineup from time to time to give players "some rest." This is done to improve the fact that many bench players on CPU's side never get to play, but it can be annoying.
--The lineup is OLD!!! After so many great players retired after the 2001 season, this game's lineup can at time seems really out of date.
--No multiple angles in the gameplay itself
--No injury, farm system and unequal trading.
--it's still a bit easy after a while

Let's face it, the baseball games in the market really fall behinde other sports and in many ways baseball is the hardest one to make. This is a great game for anyone who wish to live the magic of baseball even if there's no chance of doing it in real life. I am sure the next ALL STAR will be better and I acknowledge the many flaws this game has, but it is the best for now.

Best Baseball Game On Any System!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Reading many different previews about this game, I was a little curious to see how this game would turn out on the Cube. After playing ASB on PS2, I was totally dissapointed and felt let down on how a game could look so good, yet play so awful! Well, fear not my fellow game cubers. Baseball has arrived to the next generation of video gaming. This game not only looks great, but Acclaim has fixed MOST of the bugs that caused the PS2 version to be dissapointing. The reason I'm not giving this game a perfect 5, is because it has it's own little things that stand out from being perfect. Ex: Fielders will blend into the ballpark walls to catch a fly ball, pitchers do not have to be warmed up, and outfielders seem a bit too fast. They have fixed the pitchers speed to be more realistic, and the broken bat feature is a must to see. So lets all rejoice and welcome back ASB back to Nintendo and the gamecube!

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