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November 05, 2005

All Star Baseball 2005

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I think it was about a month ago, that my friend Gary was coming to town, and I was going to acquire a baseball game for us to tackle. Instead, I found myself getting the Midway Volume 2 collection (that's another article), because there were too many baseball titles to choose from - and I had no idea what distinguished one from the next. Last night however, I chose to rectify this, and rented All Star Baseball 2005.

So far, I've come away with two things: 1.)I know absolutely nothing about baseball, and 2). I suck at baseball. Go ahead and make it three things, because 3). There are a shitload of games to be played throughout the season. Jesus!

My batting sucks, my fielding is barely adequate, and since I consistently pitch easy pitches, I get my ass beat. Were it not for the ability to simulate games, I would be 0-4 instead of a brazen 2-2. My largest loss has been 18-2 - if that gives you any idea how bad I suck.

Gameplay itself isn't too bad. I haven't tired of the commentary yet, but if I were to keep the game, I know that would soon happen. The graphics are good, someone actually spent time on the crowd, instead of just inserting flat images in the seats. And from what little I know of the real life game, it seems pretty realistic. I chose to play as the Diamondbacks, which meant Jeri had to endure quite a bit of questions regarding the team, as well as what constituted a slider as opposed to a screwball.

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While there are a few tutorials about the game, there seems to be an absence of one regarding pitching. This could have come in handy, but I think I've figured things out on my own. Should I find access to the manual, I may find otherwise.

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Often throughout the game, I found myself thinking that I should have gone with either hockey, Call of Duty 2 or the latest Tony Hawk release. Baseball doesn't seem to hook me, I'm already tired of it, and the only challenge is my shitty batting.

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I won't be keeping this one past the due date, in fact - I may find myself at the store tonight.

Contrived by Joshua at November 5, 2005 09:38 AM

Comments

can you say "attention deficit disorder"?

Posted by: do at November 5, 2005 10:36 AM

It could be a bit of ADHD, but there are games out there that do hook me, and ones that don't - this one fits into the latter quite nicely. I'd be willing to give this one another shot, perhaps I was a bit closed to the game. I wouldn't have thought Madden would hook me, but here I am on a third season already.

Posted by: Joshua at November 5, 2005 10:46 AM