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This game is so good, it made me a huge fan of real baseball

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing this game, and play it a few times a week (if the wife lets me) still to this day! It's a great game, top to bottom. The gameplay is awesome! The pitching and batting feel so real life and puts you right in the middle of a chess game each and every time. Even if you have someone with a 100 rating (such as pedro martinez) and you're facing a batter with a dismal batting average, there's always the chance that they can get a bloop, but won't necessarily hit a home run. It's extremely realistic, and the changes in speed are so true to life or as Joe morgan, one of the announcers on the game puts it: "pitching is all about mixing speeds and hitting your spots." Other games don't really capture the art of mixing speeds like this one. Not to mention the nasty pitches that can kill your self esteem as a batter, just like real life.
Like I said above, this game is actually so good, it made me a fan of real life baseball. It was put together so well, that it helps you understand every single aspect of the baseball you see on tv, or in person and makes every single pitch exciting. If you're a real baseball fan, and you've tried to explain to people that don't love baseball why it's great and they don't understand, tell them they need to play this game!

Lastly, I kept reading the reviews of MVP 2005 and kept reading about how great that game was so I just bought it last week. I've played about 10 games now, and it's boring overall. They have some great additions to that game, and it's fun at times, but it really doesn't compare. I love that they had so many options as an owner on the MVP offering, such as controlling concessions and ticket prices, but the gameplay doesn't compare at all and that's really what the game is about here, bottom line. Get this game, you won't be disappointed.

shut up about mvp

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

SHUT UP ABOUT STUPID MVP, MVP STINKS AND ITS THE WORST BASEBALL GAME OUT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the Best Baseball Videogames!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best baseball videogames I've ever played! I'll say it again, ONE OF THE BEST! My brother came over to my house, and played this game with me after I had purchased it! I'm in my 40's and he's in his upper 30's! I'm the big gamer of the family, and he rarely plays! HE COULD NOT PUT THIS GAME DOWN! He said: "This game is awesome!!!"

Well, I have to say I am a bit shallow when it comes to games, but I'll tell you my feelings and feel free to choose helpful or unhelpful, depending on your feelings! I will make it as good as can! Because I really love this game!!! All ratings are out of 5 stars.

GAMEPLAY: 4.5 stars
Many great options here. I'm pretty lousy at baseball, and I enjoy controlling the sliders to my liking, and giving the disadvantage to the opposing team! I love how you can advance the runner, and take control. It is not perfect, but it is lots of fun, and nice to take a different angel. I'd love to see taking control of the catcher, perhaps in future editions, thought I don't think it made it to the 2K6 version. Maybe 2K7?

MINIGAMES: 3.5 stars
Great mini-games, and Homerun King are fun! Not its highest effort, but still great!

MUSIC OPTIONS: 5.0 stars
Despite what other games say, this was, to the best of my knowledge, the first baseball sports game which allows you to choose the music in many game play options within the game. Not just the beginning, not just the end. But throughout the game! At bats; Base hits; strikeouts; Pitcher entries; etc. When you go through the menu screens, you get an opportunity to customize all of your tunes. They let you choose music for the Home Team hitters as they approach the plate. They even let you choose music for specific stadiums. It is the most awesome feature in any sports videogame I have ever owned!

Over all, I have to give this one 4.5 stars out of 5 stars. It is truly an awesome game!

MC White said: CHECK IT OUT!!! TWO ENTHUSIASTIC GAMER THUMBS UP!!!

Not as good as MVP but you'll have to get used to it

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This games is miles BEHIND MVP 2005, but we'll have to get used to it because now 2k5 has the rights to MLB and MVP has given them up (or something like that, no more MVP MLB games will be made). When it was first released you would have had a reason to buy it (it was $30 cheaper) but now MVP and 2k5 are the same price meaning, skip this game and get MVP, but if you really care to know about this game I'll tell you (oh what a treat...)

First pitching,
The pitching in this game I find to be just as good, if not a little better than MVP's. You have many choices as how to pitch (Classic, Effot, K-Zone, K-Zone 2, and Meter) but the default (K-Zone 2) is the best. It's basically two dots moving and you have to allign them correctly. One controls the horizontal accuracy, the other vertical. The speed of the 2 dots changes according to the pitcher, confidence (a system which according to the players preformance changes how good they do things a small feature it makes their preformance go up or down just a little), and if they're in a pressure situation. On the higher diffuclty's a small mistake and the CPU will get a base hit and bigger mistakes 2Bs and HRs. The biggest mistakes result in a Slam Zone, which involves the pitcher and batter mashing the A button. If the batter gets the meter high enough up it will result in a HR, 2B, or even 3B. It's fun for a little bit but gets annoying, luckily it can be turned off

Batting,
Batting is a feature which MVP has a heads up on. In 2k6 you guess where the pitcher will throw it, a dead on guess or a bad pitch results in a Slam Zone (or increased chance of HR if Slame Zone is turned off). The closer you guess to the pitch the higher the chance of a base hit. But you can easily hit most pitchs and even on higher diffuclty's hitting is extremely easy. Also batting stances, swings, and animations can be really screwed up (the batter stands in the box ready to swing for like 5 seconds after the strike out sometimes whats that??)

Fielding,
This is were the game REALLY lacks. Animations (especially in the outfield) can just be downright funny. You can seemingly catch things not even Andruw Jones could get to, with someone like Jay Gibbons, and along with that you can easily drop a pop fly because jugding the ball's trajectory can be nearly impossible sometimes. Catching the ball and making dives feels, and looks strange and unnatural, while in MVP it is excellent. Throwing can be weird to as you can throw out runners from the warning track, AS THEY'RE GOING TO FIRST!!! What the hell!!!

Baserunning,
They've added a great feature, Base Burner were you control the runner and let the CPU control the batter (although you can chose to bunt, take every pitch, swing at every pitch, or be selective). You can get your lead, but the pitcher can pick you off if you go too far. And you can give the runner a speed boost by taping their base. When you are running at anytime you can give your runner a boost which is nice. Running is fine and the Base Burner is real nice

Presentation,
This is where the game really shines. The commentary by Joe Morgan (however annoying he is) and Jon Miller is great and the crowd is actually drawn like the players in 3D! Having the crowd yell taunts at batters is great, and fans yelling 'O Yeah' at Camden Yards after a HR; great! You can customize soundtracks for players, and stadiums (set songs for HR and base hits etc.) It dose all the little things that MVP overlooked.

Overall,
Hopefully 2k5 can make improvments in fielding in batting for next year but right now I'd still take MVP NCAA Baseball 2006 over 2k6 and its a COLLEGE baseball game! Its the gameplay that makes a baseball game great, not presentation (although MVP's certainly isn't bad). If 2k6 can combine their great presentation and add gameplay as good as MVP's it would make it the best baseball game ever, period.

MVP is better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

MLB 2k5 is a big disappointment. the faces are bad in this game, bad! triple play 2002 had better player faces than 2k5.

game play also is worse than from 2k4. 2k4 was easy to play, and 2k5 they got very complicated. you have to use so many buttons and do so many things just to run the bases.

on the upside, the crowd is awesome. the stadium music, the piano is awesome, and the graphics are amazing. they also captured the true dark blue of the atlanta braves, which MVP failed to do, but that's about all. what i also like is the weather factor. you can put it cloudy, cold, day and warm, twilight or nighttime.

in MLB 2K5 the batting stances are to generic and fake, too glitchy. it's not smooth like MVP.

the biggest difference between MVP and 2K5 is smoothness and realism of the game, which MVP nicely accomplishes.

MVP 2005 Much, Much Better!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has so many glitches and flaws that it is dominated over by MVP Baseball 2005 so much, that it's not even funny. 2K5 has poor baserunning, hitting, fielding, throwing, and menu setup. The only good part is the highly accurate stadiums and rosters and the ESPN announcers that make it sound like a real baseball game. The graphics aren't even good! Other than that, the game lacks in so much that it cannot really be considered a great baseball game. MVP 2005 on the other hand is a fantastic game and if ur looking for an awesome baseball game with great graphics, color, gameplay, sound and just about everything else...then MVP Baseball 2005 is the game for you, not 2K5.

MVP Baseball is so much better then this game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: June 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I fell for the hype and got this game . My son hated it. We got the MVP 2005 Baseball game from Ea Sports.

Not Perfect but Best Baseball Game On Market

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

*You won't be hearing MVP Baseball Baseball anymore(2k gets the the first party license fr the next seven years) which means you will be seeing much more of the MLB 2k series. In this year, there some great elements to keep eveyone(even players that dispise sports) playing. There many new features and game modes including, Face Mode. In this mode, you have challenges set up and the first to get to that challenge gets to disable on your opponent ability( like bunting or diving etc).

Also, the GM Mode is pretty nice but it isn't as in depth as MVP basball 2005* (at top)but it still is pretty good. In Gm Mode or in any actual game you earn tokens, from which you can spend on cheats, unifroms, ballparks,etc.

The player soundtrack is pretty cool additiion but it is pretty much wasted. They overate it and all it is 15 seconds of a clip of a song(when a player step into the batter's box) and it made me wonder, how can that really be cool? But it's not bad just really a wasted experience.

Now, how do I talk about the baserunning? It's hard at times to control. You to stop the runner at third and the runner at second goes to third and you start cussing at the TV at that moment. While, it's not that bad, it is annoying after time but you just get used to and the basruuning mistakes go away by them selves.

Now how can go on without mentiong SLAMZONE? Slamzone is great. It's where the pitcher throws a mistake pitch and you pay him back for it. You then press the A button as fast you can and he does the same. If you get it high enough and you swing when it says to press B, you just got your self a big fly, if not then it's abck to the drawing board.

The last thing I wasnt to touch one is the basestealing. I absolutely love it! When you have a fast runner on first or on second, you come into the basestealing zone. You would press the l button to dive back in case of a pick off attempt, R to steal, and left thumbstick to lead off. The reason it's loved by so many is because it's easy to do . And to gaet to bases quicker( in baserunning, and stealing) you just press A as quick as you can to beat out an infield single or to stretch out a single into a double.

Another aspect of the game that shines ( and the best) is the commentary. Never before have you said,"Wow, that actually sounded like it was it was televised" They make it sound genuine by keeping the voices ESPN baseball( none other than Hall of Famer Joe Morgam and Jon Miller) so the game is is all reall sounding.

There are some minor flaws at times when running(as I said before) but at the price this game is at, they are almost invisible. In fact, I would buy this even if it wasn't just $19.00. Now let's compare that to MVP 2005( which is $49.95), so it's a no-brainer for me and it should be for you to. It's 2k games first stab at it and it's a Homerun!!

This game( if you are a baseball fan) should be a definite>< OH yea It's Only $!19.00!!!! And you can even expect a price drop to $14.88 soon. GO BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Graphics>9/10- Great looking faces, players, ballparks. Everything looks pretty nice
Replay<>9.5/10-many things to do at all times, including the GM career, Franchise Mode,homerunderby, and more than ever!!
Depth<>8.75/10- It's good but for example: in franchise mode it's not as in depth as MVP
Overall<>9/10-. A solid score and even the mild baseball fan should add this title to their game collection.

Graphics are awesome, game sux

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is the follow up to one of the best selling baseball games of 2004. its advertised well, but thats it. you get the game hoping to see all the previous years' errors fixed plus some new features. it has some of the greatest graphics i have seen in my life, but the gameplay lets u down. it is very hard and complicated, plus there are some really strange errors like you dive and the ball just sort of magically appears in your glove, evn if you werent going to catch it. trust me, rent it if u want, but buy MVP baseball 2005, its much better!

bug-ridden piece of crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the game play is good and the game itself is just beautiful to look at, but all of this is will quickly be forgotten when the game locks up for 2 minutes after every other play. take your money elsewhere

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