Review by Todd Brakke:
"Summing up the Out of the Park Baseball 9 experience in a single sentence, paragraph, or even a small novella is not an easy thing to do. How do you sum up a game that lets your create just about every facet of a fully functional baseball world in –what is sometimes- excruciating detail? If you're an absolute baseball stats nut this game will appeal to you. If you live to run historical simulations, this game will appeal to you. If you want to run an online baseball league this game will appeal to you. If you want to create a complete fictional league that has any number of minor league levels from AAA to short season to winter ball, other international leagues, the Rule 5 draft, salary arbitration, contracts with options years, player scouting and development, the ability to grow or shrink your league over time, and have an All Star game that plays on January 31st every year instead of mid-July… well, you can do that. The beauty of this game isn't that it does any one thing exceptionally well, it's that it does everything."
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Don't miss this exciting new trailer for Fifa 10 from Tokyo Game Show 2009.
FIFA 10 will be the next installment of Electronic Arts' FIFA series of football video games. Developed by EA Canada, it is published by Electronic Arts worldwide under the EA Sports label. It will be released on October 2, 2009 in Europe and October 20, 2009 in North America and Australia. It will be available for Sony's PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. Versions of the game will also be released for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch, Nintendo DS, Nokia N-Gage, Sony PSP and for mobile phones.
One of the very highly anticipated games of 2009. Although it doesn't have too many new features, the graphics will be outstanding for sure...
The new cricket game - Ashes cricket 09 has a lot more new features. Their first cricket game in 2 years.
Is that all that matters? Graphics? pfft. Theyll be the same graphics as the last 2 versions.
Gameplay is all that matters.
Yeah, what they need to do is add something completely new. This one has manager mode which will probably increase sales by a lot more but EA needs to do more than that. I'm not saying it's a bad game, I've loved all the FIFA games, it's just the repetition.
Just like the EA sport cricket games, these are gonna stop selling eventually unless they come up with something completely, completely new. Small features won't work. I definitely won't be buying FIFA 10 since I already have FIFa 09.
