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allstarbaseball fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 64
Date: January 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this most likly will be hot because all star baseball is mad hot it u don't have all star baseball 2002, u should wait for 2003 to come out this gaphic is mad hot man!, it's easy to turn a double play.all the player like real. the creating is more detailed that 2001 for N64. u can chage the color of the govle and bat and shoes. if u a baseball fan u will enjoy this game.

p.s. u should get this game u will be happy if u get it.

Better than 2002 ?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: February 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ive heard great things about all star on N64 but never got one till PS2 all star 2002 the outfield was horrible. On the highest challenge all star settings I had 87 homeruns with luis gonzales for diamondbacks whats so great about this game. Then it came out for gamecube I thought now that its back on nintendo the greatness will return, almost. I now have 17 homeruns with gonzales in the month of sept. The outfielding is a little better the broken bats was a nice addition but after 45 min. a game it felt like it drags and on both systems if you dont save after 3 or 4 games it would FREEZE up. There's great football great hockey but baseball still does not get the credit it deserves also have'nt the game developers realized the umpire chases the fielders to see the play better and should'nt the computer attempt to steal base how many ever had a pickoff against the computer why have it if there not gonna run baseball still has a long way to go

Good? Yes. Great? Heck No.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: March 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Like nearly all games to come from the ASB line of late, this game is nice, but not without its flaws. Generally, the developers didn't put too much effort into the presentation in the way that there is a wealth of menus you must navigate to get to where you want to get, and the background is never-changing, with a uniform font. It is nowhere as easy to decipher as games from EA Sports and 989 Sports. However, there are high points to this game. The animation and graphics are miles above competition. I'm sure you're waiting on the edge of your seat for me to mention Franchise Mode. Yes, it is present. No, it is neither perfected nor polished. No Amateur Draft. Confusing Menus. Standings and Stats get fu...uhh...messed up upon post season entry, and the schedule is extremely hard to navigate. Another huge irk I have would be the lack of isolated instatant replay, the only instant reply is automatically initiated after each play at a set speed from a set camera. Finally, the controls are unorthodox and frustrating. However, my review is based solely upon this perticular game and therefore I have no recommendations in regard to purchasing High Heat, Triple Play, HomeRun King, or World Series Baseball if you are looking for a reccomendation. Sorry if this game got your hopes up - its not worth it.

This game has stuff never before seen in a baseball game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Home many baseball games have broken bats? How many baseball games put every strike-out you record with a K on the outfield walls during the game? How many baseball games during the season have the updated scores from around the league on the scoreboards where the updates are displayed in the real stadiums? How many baseball games have a 20 year franchise with farm teams, injured players which you can put on the 15 or 60 day disabled list, retiring players, hall of fame inductees, and all-time records since the dawn of baseball that are kept track of and can be broken for 20 YEARS? How many baseball games have baseball cards that you can buy to free up extra teams, stadiums (classic and fictional for a total of over 40), jerseys, and cheats? How many basball games have over 15 different picthes? How many baseball games have historical players? How many baseball games have a baseball trivia game? Hom many baseball games have blimps and planes that fly around during the game? How many baseball games have weather forecasts for every game during the season? How many baseball games have a pitch history and hit-chart recored for the entire game which can be veiwed at any time? How many baseball games have a hot & cold zone that is updated every game which can be viewed at any point in a game for the entire season? How many baseball games are purely simualtion without arcade BS?

ONE AND ONLY ONE, ASB 2003!!!

Great game, but a MAJOR problem

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: March 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I gotta tell you, I'm pretty much addicted to this game. Everything about the gameplay is very realistic and the graphics are intense. It takes a little getting used to, but its worth the time.

But, there is one major problem. This is a quote from the booklet..."WARNING: You cannot save Franchise or Expansion mode games using current Memory Cards...Mid Season Franchise or Expansion requires 1 File and 153 Blocks to save. Current Memory Cards have a capacity of 59 blocks."

You CANNOT Franchise or create an Expansion team! I think that is a major negative for this game. If you buy this game, I would highly suggest getting the new Gamecube 16X Memory Card... it is an extra [item price], but it will be very worth it for this game, and, I'm sure, future games will have the same issue. That card has something like 1000+ blocks, so you won't ever need to buy a new card again.

Hope this helps.

ASB 2003:AMAZING!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What can I say? I have been a die-hard Yankee fan my whole life, and this game definetly fits the standards of a great baseball game. I had ASB '98 on N64, which was awesome, and this game blew me away when i first played it. The graphics look great, and controlls are easy too.

This game has season and franchise modes, along with batting practice and home run derby. It also has legendary hall-of-famers like Reggie Jackson, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra.

If you are a true baseball fan you shoudl get his game.

Almost as good as the real thing!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The graphics in this game are so realistic, during replays I almost forgot I was watching a computer game and not a real one. The details are simply wonderful, base runners wiping out the second baseman while sliding, broken bats, etc. Great stuff!

However, the navigational menus and on-screen pitch selectors are pretty hard to read. There are a lot of tiny little words on a huge screen and you really need to squint to see them. I'm sure that after playing it for a while I won't need to rely so much on the selector, but it's giving me eye-strain in the meantime.

The most disappointing thing for the moment, though, is that the game requires a huge amount of memory to be saved. It's very frustrating that I'll need to get another, larger, memory card just for this game. But I will go ahead and get the card, because the Franchise and Expansion modes sound so cool, I simply have to. It makes me think that Acclaim is in cahoots with the memory card manufacturers.

That aside, the game play and graphics are worth the price of the game alone.

Good, but Not Flawless

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

One of ASB2003's main draws is the franchise capability that allows a gamer to take their favorite MLB team through 20 consecutive seasons, watch favorite players retire, bring up new superstars from their farm leagues, and more, but doing so requires buying an extra, super-sized, non-Nintendo-approved memory card. Gamers not wishing to make the extra investment can still save an entire season on a standard memory card.

The graphics here are good, but not spectacular. They're sometimes choppy, at least on a 13" screen. The instant replay that automatically plays after each out grows old fast.

Pitching is a breeze, but the batting controls take a bit of getting used to. I'm usually adept at gaming controls, but this one took me a couple of games to conquer.

The commentators offer some interesting factual tidbits throughout the course of a game, but their comments when a player hits a home run quickly grow stale, and there have been times (in a game featuring the A's versus the Astros for instance) when they err in their play-by-play calls (strike one was called strike two and vice versa).

Still, ASB2003 has a lot to offer, and die-hard baseball fans won't be disappointed.

OH ASB! Where has thou gone?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: March 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've been a huge fan of the All Star Baseball series for quite some time now. I have incredibly fond memories of ASB 2000 and 2001 for the N64. They were the Ali of Baseball Sims. The best. 2000 was great, and 2001 was even better!

Then, the ground fell out.

ASB 2002 for the PS2 was a travesty! A pure, unadulterated travesty. They destroyed the magnificent batting system...Your outfielders ran like they were in tar...and the games took way too long to play.

Now, ASB 2003 is out, which I have played on both GameCube and the PS2. It's better than ASB 2002, but not by much. ASB 2002 gets one star...ASB 2003 gets two.

The batting interface was improved since 2002, but still not as great as 2000 or 2001. At least now you have variable speeds. There's one problem, you CAN'T HIT THE BALL. The pitches...ALL OF THE PITCHES...are too fast. You can either move or swing. You don't have time for both.

Well, they fixed the problems with outfielders running speed. Now they run faster than light! Nice and realistic. I hit (when I luckily make contact with the ball) the ball to someplace there is nobody, within in a milisecond, BOOM, there's an outfielder. It's crazy.

The announcers rarely actually say anything useful, and are sometimes outright wrong. For example, I had a man on first, two men out, and I struck out. "He strikes out with bases loaded!" Ummm, I never even got to second, let alone third. Furthermore, there's no umpire. I never know when I've pitched a strike or a ball until the display comes back up.

What I did like: The graphics. They were great. That's about it.

Save your money for ASB 2004, maybe. Why do video game companies do this? Acclaim had the best baseball game ever, and now they have the worst. How does that happen?

This Game is Incredible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game is almost like the real thing. The graphis are awesome! The I especially love how the season schedules of every team are set in the franchise (if you begin your own season). The only problem with this game is that it takes up 59 blocks on a memory pack (an entire pack). Other wise, this is the greatest baseball game ever created!!

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