Major League Baseball 2K9: Xbox 360: Video Games
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Platform: Xbox 360

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Get ready to get your uniform dirty as you play ball on the Xbox 360 with Major League Baseball 2K9 by Take-Two. You’ll recognize your favorite players as MLB 2K9 captures such minute as each player’s unique batting stances, different pitching windups and swings. With new commentary and gameplay enhancements to all facets of the experience, Major League Baseball 2K9 is a whole new ballgame.

You’ll be able to recognize your favorite players by the way they move around in the box and swing the bat. View larger.

Smart camera placement gives you a dramatic view of the game. View larger.

Precision Pitching and Swing Stick give you precise control over the ball and bat. View larger.

Enhanced graphics and presentation makes you feel like you’re watching a broadcast. View larger. Beautiful Graphics and Presentation
Take-Two continues to refine the graphics and presentation of the game, and when you play MLB 2K9, you’ll often wonder if you weren’t watching television. The new Virtual Director brings smart camera placement, dramatic cuts, and more for a broadcast feel. Real-Time Atmosphere means ballboys, umpires, and coaches move naturally.

New Controls for Precision Batting and Pitching
Using the analog sticks, Take-Two’s Precision Pitching and Swing Stick give you the ability to paint the corners with your pitches and pull an inside fastball over the wall for a home run. The game carefully tracks aim and timing, so the ball always responds as you would expect it to in real life.

Never Miss a Trade as Rosters are Updated Continually
The latest rosters are included in the game, so your favorite team will have all its 2009 players. Not only that, with Living Rosters, the MLB 2K9 automatically updates the roster by getting the latest information online and incorporating it into the game. Never miss a trade again as they will be reflected in your game in real time.

MLB 2K9 provides a wealth of statistical information, and baseball fans won’t be disappointed. The Inside Edge feature uses six years of scouting data to accurately mimic player tendencies. You’ll notice your favorite players reacting to situations in the game just as they would in real life.

Player Specific Animations for More Realistic Games
2K Sports continues to build in more player-specific details, so now you can recognize your favorite players simply by watching the way they move around the batters box, how they swing the bat, or how they celebrate their home runs. It’s not just hitters who get this treatment as pitchers also have their unique deliveries and windups. The result is a game that feels more life-like than before.

Online Play with Sponsored Competitions
When you’re done practicing against the computer, you can suit up against your friends and play them online or off. With the Playoffs feature, you can skip the 162 game season and go straight to the playoffs with any eight teams you and friends want to play with. Then it’s just a matter of playing the games to see who gets the World Series Trophy.

Team 2K is an online competition to see who the best team of online players are. By playing Ranked Quick Matches, you can join in the fun and compete for prizes.

New Play by Play and Commentary Team
MLB 2K9 brings with it the new broadcast team of Gary Thorne and Steve Phillips. The new team injects depth and insight into the game, and provides another level of realism. In addition, the game also has real-time crowd noise and other sound effects that will have you feeling like you’re sitting in the bleachers.

Product Description
Major League Baseball 2K9 captures player-specific details including batting stances, pitching windups and signature swings. Featuring game play enhancements in pitching, batting, fielding, and base running, making it user-friendly and enjoyable for rookies or veterans. New commentary and presentation provide the ultimate baseball experience. Music by Judas Priest, Cheap Trick, Coheed & Cambria, Ted Nugent, SR-71, The Romantics, Boys Like Girls, and Europe

Disappointing,

By M. Powell - See all my reviews
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Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

First let me say I actually enjoyed MLB 2k8. It had flaws(several), but after tweaking some sliders I actually played a few full seasons, simming a game here and there, and enjoyed it. I had high expectations for MLB 2k9, and was very disappointed. After getting home and putting the game in I started up an exhibition game. I loved it, the presentation was new and great, the announcers were new and fresh, and the graphics looked good. Unfortunately the more I played the more the bugs and glitches started showing up. Such as……perfect throws to the first baseman and he wouldn’t put his foot on the bag; outfielders not getting there gloves up in time to catch flyballs and letting the ball go over their heads; Players running through walls and disappearing; Stats are all screwed up; Pinch hitters for the CPU coming out and pitching the next inning; I actually had some phantom player standing in the other batters box once when I was hitting. My first franchise froze after the first three games and I had to start it over. I haven’t even mentioned dumb things that just don’t happen in a true baseball sim. Things like the CPU swinging at everything. They never take a pitch. For that matter, the CPU hardly ever throws a ball. Almost every inning is three or four pitches. You can fix that with sliders like last year right? Wrong. They took away a ton of sliders and presentation options from last year. There is no slider to control CPU aggresiveness at the plate. There are no sliders for a ton of things, and what ones there are you can’t figure out what they mean. Want to change the presentation angle? Can’t, there’s no option. Oh and if you do mess around with some sliders it disables the card collecting feature.

I will close by saying that everything is there for 2k to improve on to make a great game. Like I said before the presentation, graphics, and overall broadcast of the game is very nice. Unfortunately, I believe the bugs are just going to be too much to overcome for us xbox360 users to have a good baseball game to play this year. Oh well, theres always next year….

Do Not Buy This Game!,

By Sam Stone “Man among Many” (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews
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Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

The title of this post should pretty much say it all: This is a BAD GAME. Many reviewers are noticing the rampant glitches in this year’s version–many more than were in MLB 2K8, which wasn’t all that smoothly done in the first place–and what they are reporting is accurate if, perhaps, understated. In terms of its programming, this game is a disaster. And the baseball action (fielding mechanics, pitching, etc) make it seem like there probably isn’t a single actual baseball fan employed in the 2K studios. Had a chance to check out The Show 09 on my buddies PS3, far–far–better.

So my solution is simple–don’t buy this game. If you did buy it, return it to the store immediately. It’ll be disappointing not having a new baseball game this year, but maybe if everyone leaves this dog on the shelf either MLB properties will reconsider and send the license back to EA, or 2K will fire their entire design team and start over. At this point, either solution would likely result in a major improvement.

EDIT

I’ve talked this over with a number of friends, and we all agree–the enforced yearly output for sports video game franchises is killing the quality of the games. There is, literally, no time for major innovation, good quality control, etc. We’ve all agreed the following solution would work and hope you agree: Put out a new title once every two or even three years–offering downloadable ($) roster and rating updates for each new season between generations of the game. Giving these studios more time to focus on quality and innovation would probably lead to increased game sales. I did not purchase MLB 2K9 this year, choosing to rent it first instead since I was disappointed with the last two or three iterations of the franchise . And, needless to say, won’t be buying it. I will be doing the same thing with Madden as well. Use the power of your pocketbook, rent these games for a few days before u purchase them. It will save u both money and time, and maybe the sports game companies will wake up and smell the new century.

Yes! Nice changes for the better. A Nice Surprise.,

By Jim Cutler “jim@jimcutler.com” (NY United States) - See all my reviews

Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

I’ve been jonesin’ for a good baseball game since the good old days of Acclaim Sports and the EA versions of MLB. When 2K locked up the MLB franchise and locked out EA I was really disappointed in the 2K game play, the controls, and many other things. I’ve only played 3 games with the new 2K9 MLB but the difference for the better was immediately noticed. YES! Nice coding 2K. You notice nice little improvements everywhere. Lets go right to gameplay: I hated pitching last year, this year is soooooo much, much better. 2K9 has clearly labeled just about everything in the game that was a mystery last year. This makes a huge difference. And they’ve provided a nice practice mode with CLEAR explanations for Pitching where you read what to do and how to throw and then can practice till you’re comfortable. They’ve moved a couple of buttons in pitching to more logical places but for the better. Don’t worry, the buttons are all where they supposed to be if you’ve played baseball games before. There is a second practice mode for how to run and steal, a third for for fielding where you shag balls and try to throw out stealers. Again improvements with the buttons making it much nicer and more intuitive. This year you can throw to the base in last year’s style with the RS, OR new in 09 you can use the 4 buttons to throw to bases! Both methods work right out of the box without changing settings. There’s a batting practice mode as well with helpful big letters that tell you how you went wrong “VERY LATE SWING” “LATE SWING” “VERY EARLY SWING” etc. This is very good, it’s not an earth shattering change but it’s easier to learn how to hit. I can’t emphasize enough how the general feel of ‘09 now that makes it easier to get up to speed on any aspect faster. Things make sense because they are now well labeled. The announcing is very good because it is less in your face. Last year’s Miller and Morgan patter was a 10 on the tiresome scale because the same raps came up over and over again. (The passed ball from the 1941 World Series line.) This year it blends so much better and will probably not be tiring as the season goes on. The gameplay is so much more like the good old days of Acclaim Sports and EA Sports baseball. Hitting, pitching and fielding all feel great. You can actually pick guys off the bases this year. A nice promise appears at the beginning of the game. When you log in for the first time the game asks your permission to let 2K rabidly keep your rosters updated with the very latest changes in baseball on a daily basis if necessary. If they really do this, it’s a VERY smart move and it’s going to make for a great season. I’ve only had this one day (it came out today!) but I am thrilled. I expected it to be crappy like last year. Way to go 2K and thank you! A Nice Surprise.
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