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Please EA Sports, bring back MVP baseball!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game flat out stinks!!! The fielding is horrible. You can't charge the ball and the fielders wait for the balls to come to them instead of charging at it and making a throw. I have had pitchers get infield hits against me because the shortstop waits for the ball. Also it is impossible to make a diving stop in the infield or outfield. You can not make any highlight plays. It says to push the R button up to steal a homerun but instead you dive. The pitching is terrible. If you do not throw the ball down the middle of the zone, it will be called a ball. The opposing outfielders catch everything in sight. Like someone said, it is a mission to lay down a bunt. Baserunning is a complete joke. I don't care if you have Jose Reyes at second, you are not going to score from second to home on a soft basehit. 10 times out of 10 the runnr will be thrown out at home by a mile. It is impossible to score from second to home even on a double. The play by play is terrible. Morgan and Miller repeat the same things over and over again and sometimes the call a strike out on a a batter and have him going to the dugout when in deed there is one strike. It is just a terrible game. MVP baseball 2005 was the most realistic and enjoyable baseball games I have ever played. This piece of trash is a poor excuse for a baseball game and does not come close to sniffing MVP. All this game did was give me headaches. The makers of this game did not make an attempt to make this a decent playable game. If you want to play a good baseball game, buy MVP baseball 2005. The only enjoyable things about this game is the soundtrack and the hitting is okay. Other than that this is a horrendous game. I advise you to please save your money and don't buy this junk.

WORST BASEBALL GAME EVER!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am an EA Sports guy. When EA traded away MVP it was the worst mistake in the world. I have never played an ESPN Baseball game before until this year and I will never buy another one. This game FREEZES all the time. The fielding is HORRIBLE!!!! The batting is unrealistic and when you hit a homerun you dont even know until the game unfreezes and you see yourself cross the plate. I HATE THIS GAME!!!!! It is almost a month into the major league season and they still don't have a roster update. The rosters are not even close!!!! They have Coco Crisp still on the Indians and every roster in this game is WRONG!!!! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!! I have returned mine and am going to stick with MVP 2005!!! PLEASE EA SPORTS DO SOMETHING HELP US MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL FANS OUT!!!!

Below the Mendoza line...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

--- One out, runner on third. Deep fly ball to LF and the catch is made. Runner then tags and crosses plate while CPU left fielder throws to third and runner is called out. Inning over. ??????????????

--- Score: Player= 3 CPU= 0 // Two outs, CPU batting with a runner on third. Ground ball to 3rd baseman who throws to first. Batter out. Runner runs in from third, inning over. Player comes up to bat and inexplicably the score is now: Player= 3 CPU= 1 // ?????????

--- Joe Morgan is calling a completely different game. Strikes are balls, balls are strikes...inside/outside, nothing matches.

--- Stadium announcer calls "George" Posada to the plate. Won't even try to describe what Paul Konerko sounds like!

--- Runner on first, no outs. Batter sac bunts soft grounder down first base line. Runner freezes until pitcher picks up ball and throws to 2nd base. Ummmmm????

This game was obviously programmed by the same people that make the cheap shirts you can buy at Wal-Mart...probably World Cup freaks that don't know a fly ball from a fly swatter.

Only good thing about game is the fairly impressive graphic accuracy of the ballparks...at least the few I have bothered to see.

This game goes in the Garage Sale pile.

DO NOT BUY --- Rent it if you want to check the accuracy of my review...but you'd do better to save that $$$ for a dog and soda at a real game...

Perhaps Bud Selig was the consultant on this game? That would make perfect sense...

A swing and a miss.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 30 / 35
Date: April 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is what happens when video games do not have competition. It is very obvious that this game was rushed to shelves without very basic product testing. The good parts are pitching and batting. Baserunning is clumsy and fielding is horrid. In two days (maybe 10 9 inning games) the following have happened:
-Thrown out 3 runners from right field and one from center.
-Jon Miller and Joe Morgan continually get the count wrong not to mention the previous years stats.
-It looks like the shortstop has a cannon (literally) for and arm.
-Thrown out Ai players on routine plays because I timed their base rounding.
-I cannot bunt. I press Y as the book says and I cannot even get the guy to square. I have tried R thumstick too....no luck.
-Baserunning is tedious and nearly impossible when 2 or more runners are moving.
-Diving for balls on the infield is impossible because of the timing involved.
-graphics are 2-3 years old.
Again...the pitching and hitting (other than bunting) are very good. All else fails.

I am going to give it another chance but I think this one is headed for ebay.

Don't make the same mistake I did.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Terrible game play, terrible graphics, terrible playability. All I have to say is why bother buying the exclusive rights to a product and then release the worst baseball game of all time. I think I would rather play Hardball 3 on my 286 then this game.

The graphics, except for the fantastic cut scenes, look like there from my old PS1. The statistics are terrible, Toronto is rated as the 29th worst offence. Does picking up Glaus, Overby and Molina not do anything to improve the 6th best offence in the American League last year. Anyways that has nothing to do with my feelings on the game itself.

Poor playability, Poor Graphics (nice team logo cut scenes), Poor, Poor, Poor, Poor

All I can say is if you like baseball and baseball games, go against your best judgement and do not buy this game.

Poor effort with very frustrating play.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The commentary is absolutely horrible. They say strike when it's a ball, and is called a ball. Morgan's pitch analysis is more repetitive than anything I've ever heard (although it gives you a good reason to mix up your pitch selection). Apparently Morgan doesn't know what the "BP" in BP Fastball stands for, either. The announcing also can't read the stats correctly, everyone had 0 HR and 0 RBI, or 0 wins last season. The fielding physics and controls are garbage as well, diving is useless, and charging the ball is not allowed in many cases, taking away your chance for several outs. The pitching and hitting are okay, but not spectacular, I like the pitch location method. Baserunning stinks. The thumbstick hitting is too frustrating to stick with, I switched to the button immediately. As per usual, the pitcher characteristics are way off. Sinkerballers don't have sinkers, guys with cut fastballs don't have them, control pitchers have 98 MPH fastballs, and that's just on the Twins. I really am unimpressed coming over from MVP. Hopefully the 360 version is better. This isn't a good product.

Unplayable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is unplayable. Beyond the shoddy play, sometimes the fielders take their time when trying to throw people out, the game freezes on regular xbox whenever restoring a game from the WBC tourney. This game is horrendous. The worst. An abomination. An embarassment. And most of all an insult to everyone who has purchased it. Save your $40.

Maybe the worst game I've ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

And that's not an exaggeration. Everything about this game is awful: the play-by-play is insufferable (and usually inaccurate); the rosters are inexcusably outdated; the player ratings are lazy and inaccurate; the graphics are terrible in every way, making the players look like Lego men and the bats like little plastic whiffle bats (it might have looked acceptable on PS One 10 years or so ago); the game freezes momentarily at random times (at least on my system); and the gameplay is terribly unrealistic.

I really, really, *really* hope EA Sports gets their license back next year (although really, their college game is pretty fun). This one is just an embarrassment to all involved.

I agree, BRING BACK MVP

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

pretty much everything about this game (except maybe the multiple user controlled teams in gm, franchise and season modes) sucks. if you liked mvp 05, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. I cant believe we have to deal with this for the next few years.

Not to jump on the bandwagon but . . .

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is really bad. Rosters look like they made no attempt to get them right and they are stil yet to release a downloadable update. Unlike other games, I cannot figure out a way to just go through the rosters and fix them myself.
The instruction manual leaves much to be desired as I am yet to figure out how exactly I am supposed to pitch.
I have not had the freezing problems other people have mentioned, but that may be because I haven't played the game much due to the frustrating roster problems (Sox with roughly half of the players missing or wrong).
Save your money and do not encourage this.

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