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MLB 10 The Show
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Welcome to The Show All-Star. The best selling and highest rated baseball franchise is back in MLB 10 The Show throwing you into an unsurpassed baseball experience where big moments come alive. It’s all here too; the All New Home Run Derby, MLB All-Star Futures Game, Movie Maker, Catcher Mode, Personalized cheers and yells and Joe Mauer, newly crowned American League MVP, as the new cover athlete. A Kind Of Magic Another One Bites The Dust Bohemian Rhapsody Br…
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about 1 year ago
Only buy this game if you’re a professional baseball player, When I play a game I dont want to be working counts on every player if your into that this your game. You can put this game on rookie mode all the a.i to 100 on contact and 100 in power and still hit no home runs. You need perfect timing perfect swing to hit home runs and hits. I’ am selling my ps3 and going back to xbox this game awful How I wish EA Sports did babseball games again!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
about 1 year ago
This is the third year in a row I’ve gotten this game and sadly I still can’t get the hang of it. I love baseball more than anything and I am saddened that I can’t have a game that I am good at.
The positive things from this game are that the graphics are amazing and the player animation is as good as it gets.
Now, I don’t want to be too critical of the game because I know there are many big fans out there, but I still have too much trouble scoring runs on offense and keeping the ball in the park while pitching.
I have yet to master the art of hitting. Scoring 1 maybe 2 runs a game starts to get tough to win games. Pitching I do not understand at all. When I think I’ve made a good pitch and it looks accurate on the pitching meter it still misses its spot by quite a ways and leaves the ball vulnerable to become meat.
Ok so I am just a stupid sap that is just accustomed to the old EA mvp games and can’t get the hang of this game. I know a lot of people do really enjoy this game so I don’t want to say too many bad things. The main point I am trying to get across is that if you had any problems in the past don’t expect this game to be any easier.
Rating: 3 / 5
about 1 year ago
The problem with “The Show” has remained the same through every iteration of the game: it cheats. But much more irritating than that is the fact that it doesn’t cheat in a logical or consistent manner.
A good example of this is the strike zone and random “strikes as balls” issue. Anybody who has ever watched a baseball game knows that, barring a batter complaining and gaining a few inches to his personal zone, umpires are mostly consistent in their judgment. Some will call a tight inside, some a tight outside, some a low zone, some a high zone. Very rarely does someone randomize among all four. The best way to simulate this would be for the game to randomly pick one or more ‘loose’ areas in the zone at game start. Instead, “The Show” clearly uses random chance to determine if a strike will be called a ball. This is intensely frustrating. It becomes even more frustrating when it begins to happen right as you’re locking down a game – a pitch down the heart of the plate will suddenly be deemed a ball for no reason other than to make you groove another one and cover the game cheating.
The cheating itself is random, so sometimes you won’t see it and sometimes it’s so incredibly obvious that it makes you want to kick the console. Even in the demo I have, so many times, been in the last inning of a scoreless game and – after striking out 5 or 6 batters and having the enlarged sweet spot on the golf meter – my control will suddenly vanish. Everything thrown at a corner will miss, forcing you to groove one or keep walking people. And in these situations the CPU rarely gets a base hit. It’s almost always a crushed home run, or a ball off the wall.
The best way for me to describe this game is that it’s like being in an abusive relationship. Sometimes it’s just glorious – if cheating is happening, or the game is favoring you, it’s subtle. Sometimes even losing can feel right; you give it your all but the other guys just beat you up, or the other pitcher is an ace. But 9 times out of 10 it just feels cheap. It feels like you are doing everything right, and the game is just doing everything it can to tick you off.
And yes, I realize that in real baseball, stuff happens outside of your control. But in real baseball you also have real abilities and real limitations. Simply mimicking everything that sucks about reality is not ‘realism’.
Everyone talks about the sliders. Nonsense. I finally swallowed my pride and dropped all the CPU sliders down to zero. All that did was delay the inevitable. Batters still refused to swing at borderline pitches, except in the occasional 0-2 count. And at the end of the game they still staged an improbable comeback by tagging me for two home runs.
The bottom line is that this game is a frustration simulator. The chances of having a good game are so low, and the chances of having a bad game based on cheats, bugs, and irritations so high, that I would recommend almost anything else (except, of course, the much buggier 2K).
Rating: 1 / 5
about 1 year ago
I’ve seen a lot of reviews here, mostly from people who has bought this game for the first time and these people are the ones who speak in favor of this year edition of MLB the show. First, Sony has given a step back when it comes to graphics of The Show. It seems like the have sacrificed models realism instead of making the game faster loading. Yes, The players faces doesn’t look as real as the last 2 versions. They have changed accurate batting stances like Many Ramirez and now it doesn’t look as real (just to mention one) .The have corrected the pitchers wind up and movement to the bases for good but Sony Did not take time to fix some big glitches like fielding tag option to the more logical fielder near the ball. The Transmutation fact that a player go through another like a ghost (why Sony do not copy this technology from Madden NFL?). Now must of the calls when stealing bases are outs,,Errors seems like being selected randomly for the cpu, no matter how expert you get fielding correctly and even with a gold glover player. When it comes to sound, now the balls in the dirt sounds like a hit by pitch and it’s confusing knowing when is a ground ball to the catcher or a dead ball by a hit batter. Another mayor fact is that this game is Brighter than the old versions. I dont know but me and 2 other friends of mine has notice headaches while playing a single game. they alert you at the game loading about this bright effect and it really tires you eyes up. they have changed the fielding tag color to white so sometimes when a fielder miss a ground ball you lose a couple of seconds to notice this and this mean a lot of “safe plays”. All these things take me to the conclusion that Sony Doesn’t listen to us, the loyal gamers of this MLB saga.
May be this glitches( and a few more) were the reason why they did not released the demo. It was very easy promising new and innovative changes in MLB 10 but in the end it was a lie. They must quickly release a patch or we will never forget this cheating merchandise propaganda of Sony SCEA. It’s a shame that the competition is so weak.
Rating: 2 / 5
about 1 year ago
MLB THE SHOW is by far the best baseball franchise ever. There has never been a game nearly as realistic as this one. The graphics on this game are even better than the previous 2, which I thought was nearly impossible. I said the last one was the best looking sports game I had ever played, well now I’m saying that this is and I honestly don’t know how they could make it look that much better next year. I’m sure they’ll figure something out, I just hope they don’t go backwards like some games have (NBA 2K10 for example). I haven’t played but a couple games so far and haven’t started using any of the other game modes to be able to comment on. I just know that as a baseball player myself, I find this to be the closest thing to the real deal as you can get. Only reason i’m not giving it 5 stars is because….well, I’m just not one of those people that gives out perfect ratings unless something is truly, truly perfect. I don’t think i’ve ever given a game a perfect rating, so a 4star from me is probably as good as a 10 from anyone else.
Rating: 4 / 5