Easy just requires you just press the swing button and lets you try to direct the ball by pressing up or down to get the ball to fly up, drive into the ground, or hit a line drive. There are two choices for batting, easy and hard. This is extremely frustrating as the computer throws balls all of the time, but it is really hard to tell if they are going to be a ball or a strike before it is too late. I wouldn't recommend throwing balls ever as the computer swung at one ball I threw the entire time I played the game. Then you get to watch the ball sail over the plate or go way outside depending on whether you picked to throw a ball or a strike. If you are using the gamepad, you pick whether you are going to throw a ball or a strike before you pitch and pick which box you will throw into by pointing in the direction you want the ball to go. Of course this screen only shows if you are using the mouse or keyboard to play. You can pick one of those boxes to pick from. But the problem here is that there are only 17 different places that you can through the pitch (look for yourself at the bottom of the review). It works something like this you get to pick your pitch type, then you get to pick where the ball will go. Even the very limited pitching possibilities of RBI baseball for the original Nintendo was better that this. Maybe I'm a little spoiled by other games, but I think that this pitching scheme was one of the worst that I've played. The first side of this ugly quarter is the pitching. So you would think that this would be the part of the game that the developers would spend the most thought and time to make work in a fun and playable manner. Pitching and batting are the meat and potatoes of baseball right? This is where the game starts and what has to happen every single play. This was a good idea but the arrow just is too damn big and tends to confuse more than help. One good thing is that for beginners they try to help out a little bit by having a huge arrow point from your fielder to where the ball is going. Fielding isn't that difficult but is sluggish and really not very fun to play. Unfortunately, the nugget really doesn't taste any better on the inside than it looks on the outside. Although I have to point out that when the players run to first they look like a monkey learning to run on two feet. They were smooth, realistic, and fun to watch for the most part. The animations that they assigned to the models were pretty good though. They look like every other basic model in baseball games. They do a good job approximating the size of the actual players, and the textures are passable, but I really didn't sit up in my seat at attention when I saw them. I'm kind of wishy-washy about these models because they really aren't that good, but I can't rail on them too much for being bad because I've seen much worse. Whoever thought of this should really go back to design school, because it actually makes the stands look considerably worse than if they had just left the crowd as a flattened texture.Įnough about the stands, onto the models of the players. They made an attempt at making the stands look better by putting up some flat cut out people in the front row around the stadium.
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At this point I think I might give a baseball game a 10 just for finally figuring out how to make the stands look acceptable without sacrificing game performance. As seems to be the norm with baseball games, the stands are terrible looking. So where should we begin? Let's go with the chocolaty covering on our would-be nugget commonly known as the graphics. They managed to make a game that succeeded in giving players the options that they have gotten used to seeing in baseball games, but they failed in the execution of these said options. It is the graphics? Is it the gameplay? Is it the ability to run a team over a season? Is it all of the extra goodies put into the game? Well, it's all of these and I wish that some company would finally realize that. It seems like after making baseball games for such a long time, the people making the games would have figured out what exactly it is that makes baseball games fun.
But did this game really live up to the nugget level of goodness? Nope, and there are plenty of reasons why. The newest in the bunch of the baseball 2001 editions is EA's Triple Play 2001. There are plenty of game developers looking to make games that deliver the feeling and fun of the game but it seems for the most part that PC developers are having a hard time doing it. Indeed, baseball is America's sport and it should be treated with respect, and dignity, you know, like a chocolaty nugget. Ahhh Baseball, the breakfast of champions, the light of our lives, and the chocolaty nugget at the bottom of a goulash pie.
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