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good easy playing game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i got Triple Play 2002, cause it looked awsome.

bought it at Best Buy on a gift card, and i love it.

the game is awsome, the music is good, and best of all, it's a very EASY and SIMPLE baseball game.

nothing really special about it. the players faces are AWSOME, and are actually more realistic than the faces of ESPN baseball 2k4 and 2k5. yep, Triple Play 2002 had better more life like face resemblences than the newest baseball games on the market.

the stadiums are all awsome and very accurate, including real up to date stats at Yankee stadium. there are moments that capture a big game moment. home runs and celebrations are awsome.

what i love so much about this game, is that it reminds me of Ken Griffey Jr. baseball, it's so simple and easy to play, not like today's games which are sometimes complicated.

Costas and Harold Reynolds do commentary, and it's awsome, especially when Reynolds sings Take me out to the ball game.

only problems i have, is that it does slow down sometimes. real small glitches where it seems like the game is trying to load between innings. but other than that, good game.

game also includes Barry Bonds and Jose Canseco....;)

overall, good game.

i got it for christmas and havent played it since.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

ok when i got this game i was like "hey another triple play,now i can have fun." I WAS WRONG!the only good part about this is season mode. if this game were online i would still play it.But nope no on line,i hope you make the right decision.shorty z

BOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is very very sad. The last two were ten times better. But that was on PC, but still the worst game on xbox.

dissapointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game was terrible, don't buy it. The graphics and announcers are horribly dissapointing. The home run derby is the worst, the annamation is very bad.

A Terrible Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible. It is slow and boring. I rented it and got bored with it after about five minutes. This game is marketed as a realistic simulation, but is far from it. In exhibition, it won't take you more than a couple of minutes to realize that every other foul ball goes to the same exact same place. The same thing happens with homeruns and basehits. They all end up going to the same exact spot with the same exact animation. Also, where are the routine fly balls. Homeruns outnumber fly balls 100 to 1. It is not uncommon to see multiple back-to-back-to-back homeruns in a game or even in an inning. Actual player skills make no difference. Hitting a homerun with Barry Bonds is just as hard (or just as easy) as hitting a homerun with some guy who didn't hit a single homerun last year.
You would think that by switching the level of play, the homeruns would slow down. Not exactly. The only difference is that the computer starts hitting all of the homeruns. It is no fun winning 100 to 1 or losing 100 to 1. A quick glance at the scoreboard and you would think that you were playing football or basketball. Hey! The uneven level of play is starting to reminf me of the MLB and their greedy salary-cap hating players.
I haven't even begun to mention the minor problems with the game or the problems with the graphics. I'm the kind of guy who likes all of the "little things" added to a game to keep it more realistic. In Triple Play 2002, you have to hit 90 mph curveballs in the Homerun Derby and the Expos sell out every game. Baseball is one of the easiest sports to get right because it does not have continuous action. EA Sports needed to get this right because of the increasing competition from Sega Sports. They failed miserably, making me even more devoted to Sega Sports. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

It ain't perfect...but kid, you ain't either!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

All these gamers whining about this and that- the game is fine-
the stadiums look terrific... o.k. so the heads are a bit oversized at times, it's kinda funny sometimes.
Anyways, rent the darn game if you wanna find out if you like a game, why you askin' me anyways?

What happened?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Having been a huge fan of the Triple Play series for the PC, I couldn't wait to play the Xbox version, purchasing it on the day of release. What the hell happened? Where are the rewards that were a staple of the PC version. The choice of multiple angles in the field and while batting?

The game is not awful, there's some good strategy opportunities while pitching (hitting, in time, becomes way too easy even in All Star mode). But EA Sports continues to take steps backward in its latest releases.

The stadium graphics are above average in some instances, but ridiculous in others. For examples, in the game version trees surround Shea Stadium, which in reality is surrounded by junk yards and auto body shops. While I'm at it, the players disproportionate features is extremely annoying. The Mets' portly first baseman, Mo Vaughn, is depicted with the body of an Olympic swimmer in the Xbox version. Others look like cavemen with oversized heads on puny bodies.

Attention to detail is what sets an oustanding sports game from the rest of the pack. And while Triple Play's game play is functionally above average, the lack of realistic details makes it a lesser choice among games already available.

Lets hurry up! The season is starting!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

That is exactly what EA did with this game. It was definately hurried. EA left themselves an extremely low baseline to improve upon. I expect a better effort next time. If you love baseball you will still enjoy this game.

Will there ever be a good baseball game?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was a major disappointment for a number of reasons.

1 - Choppy game play. Your fielders should not pause for a second every time before throwing the ball. Very annoying. With all of the player animations these days, the game play is not nearly as smooth. Does anyone remember Baseball Stars for the original NES? One of the smoothest playing baseball games, just lacked in the graphics department. But hey, that was then.
2 - Horrible camera view options, both manual and automatic. Home runs are the most exciting part of baseball, and to have the camera fixed at home plate while you watch the ball fade out of sight 400 feet away is very anti-climactic. There is no watching the runners round the bases, just a meager celebration at the plate. Poor.
3 - Having to view Point #2 in instant replay in the exact same camera view it originally occurred in. One of the best upgrades a few years back was the option to rotate the camera around a given spot and to zoom in. What happened to that? It's in every other game.
4 - Commentary annoying, although, what game doesn't have annoying commentators if you play it enough? Drawback anyway.
5 - Competition not too difficult. Many sports games become easy to master, so therefore, to avoid Points 1 & 5, I simply play a game on user for both sides and switch controller use to the team that is batting. It makes for even competition and I don't have to deal with the frustrating fielding play.

The controller switch option mid-game is the only option that made me keep the game.

Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing the Triple Play series for years on Playstation 1 and frankly this X-box game is not near the fun that those games were and still are. The major thing is that it is too easy. I hate the batting directional and wish I could take it off. The old games would take me some time to get through the individual levels but this one I moved straight into the Pro Level and I'm like 10-1. (Had too much wine on the loss). Most of the games are blow outs. I'm practicing on the highest level but I think I've got the level figured out for the season.

I've had the game just a couple of weeks and I'm kicking the games tail. This was not the way the old games were. You had to work and practice to get better. I find myself bored with the game and then go back to play Madden football.

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