Last year's game felt a little bit rushed. MLB 08 The Show improves on some of the problems apparent in last years version while updating the gameplay to make the experience more realistic. It's an exact baseball sim. You can't just swing away at every pitch and expect to get on base. The game is the pretty much the same as last year, but with a more updated roster. If you purchased last year's title, this game is not worth forking over another 60 bucks for the same experience.
Review by: Albert Iskander
Pros
• Realistic Pitching / Batting Experience
• Road to the Show / Franchise Mode
• Great Online Features
Cons
• Loading Times
• Poor Fielding
• No major additions to warrant another $60
The MLB: The Show franchise exclusively on PlayStation platforms, has driven baseball simulators to the next level with the most realistic and detailed games from the sport. Today TheGamerAccess.com is glad to announce that they have one of the Senior Producers of MLB 09: The Show with them to answer some of their questions.
Well, coming from a developer which contributed to the finest sports game I've ever played running 1080p native + 60 fps, I believe every word he's got to say.
nice interview, the game is looking great and I know there is more power on the PS3 that they can pull out.
If not THE greatest.
MLB: The Show is simply a must-have for ANY baseball fan.
This isn't opinion, it's hands-down a fact.
Sony could make an NFL franchise right now if they wanted. 2K sports has an exclusive hold on the baseball franchise rights but since The Show is not 3rd party it can be made, same with an nfl title
Professional sports have dealt with doping from track & field, to cycling, baseball, pro football, wrestling, boxing, and just about any sport you can think of. Taking that information and looking at many of athletes that have existed in the gaming world has resulted in suspicions that maybe some of these digital athletes were doping like A-Rod and the real players.
Without further ado, here are 10 game characters suspected of using "power ups" to enhance their game.
It won GameStooge's Best RPG of 2008, Best Xbox 360 Game of 2008, and Best PC Game of 2008, and it captures the overall prize. There are so many factors that made Fallout 3 so special: the look of the game, making even a post-apocalyptic desert beautiful; the theme and setting; the storyline and voice acting; the VATS system and action; the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. and Karma roleplaying game elements; from beginning to end, Fallout 3 felt like an event. Kudos for Bethesda, who have the unenviable task of trying to one-up their own creation.
Best Game of 2008: Fallout 3
Best PC Game of 2008: Fallout 3
Best Xbox 360 Game of 2008: Fallout 3
Best PlayStation 3 Game of 2008: LittleBigPlanet
Best PlayStation 2 Game of 2008: Persona 4
Best Wii Game of 2008: No More Heroes
Best Nintendo DS Game of 2008: Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Best PlayStation Portable Game of 2008: God of War: Chains of Olympus
Fallout 3 is an amazing game. Can't wait to get this on the 360 with the exclusive DLC.
Fallout 3 certainly should get GOTY! Awesome game with so much to do and good replay value.
Homicide I also can't wait to get that DLC :) 3 in the next 3 months! Though for PC you could also get the GECK dlc which is a map editor and sounds pretty dang sweet but I don't have a gaming PC anyways
Just for the record, GameStooge gave Fallout 3 the following honors:
Best Game of 2008
Best PC Game of 2008
Best Xbox 360 Game of 2008
Best Roleplaying Game of 2008
Fallout 3 was also nominated for:
Best Music Score of 2008
Best Graphics (Technical) of 2008
Best Graphics (Artistic) of 2008
Best Voice Acting of 2008 - for Liam Neeson as Father
A 3/5, pffft this game is easily a 4/5. It looks great, plays great, and it is great!
i played this game and it deserves ATLEAST a 4/5,
well, what're you gonna do? unqualified and misinformed people reviewing games, thats XPlay for ya!
x-play officially sucks.
this is the best baseball game this year.
This is a bias review anybody that played both games like i have well tell you that the show blows 2k8 out of the park. 2k has framerate issues, bad gameplay, camera problems....so on and so on. there was a reason boys that ther would not release the demo to after the game hit the stores. If you goto Meta. The show has a score list like this 90 90 90 87 85 and then a big fat 60 what BS. I am so done with "xbox play" that G4 as a whole went down the tubes they got like 2 game shows and the rest is BS. Alright exhale woo I'm done with my rant. this is what i wanted to say on there website but i wasn't gone to sign up for one rant, but if you look alot of people did
IGN, Gameinformer, every site or magazine have loved what MLB08 has brought to the show (PUN INTENDED) and then these people give a mediocre review. I don't get it, they gave No More Heros a perfect 5/5 and that game is fundamentally broken in so many aspects. You can't even jump in the game, I've literally had to walk around a 3 inch curve, cause I couldn't jump. But yet its a perfect game. X-Play reviewers get to into the shiney red ball effect, games come out that attempts something new or risky and it makes that game a perfect game. Whatever, its a sports title, like I would expect these people to understand, the finer points of what makes a sports title great. To them its always gonna be a pitch and hit game, unless you give them extras that have nothing to do with Baseball itself then maybe a sports title would get more then a 3 from them.