Gag me with a spoon. MVP Baseball is garbage, it is arcade, easy as hell, 200+ HR’s a season baseball, unrealistic pitching, lame presentation, lame commentary.

The Show Series is the best baseball series ever. IT is sim, not arcade.

Playing the demo the graphics are VASLTY improved from last year. Better textures on skin and clothes and even the baseball and even stadiums. Lighting reflects off name and numbers on back of jersey, and you can see pine tar on helmets with light reflection off of them. Clothes that wrinkle realistically, wind blowing clothing, tons of animations that give the game a baseball feel more so than any other game. No lame cardboard cut out crowd, they jump for balls hit near them.

When you let the game go unpaused things get really interesting. players get bored so they do some…odd things to pass time.

Umpires taking a bat from a batter and swinging it a few times before giving it back to the batter, or the batter using the bat as a guitar, or 1st baseman talking to first base ump and also talking to first base coach. Players in dugout doing the wave. Manny laying on the ground in the outfield, Ellsbury doing situps in the field. OR even PLayers trying o hype up the crowd and the crowd responds by cheering.

No game gets closer to baseball than The Show Games

I HAVE TO GO MLB 08 THE SHOW………LOOKS AND SOUNDS AMAZING

It was funny to me that guys like matt kemp, james loney, chad billingsley, and andre ethier did not improve at all during franchise mode. I dont know if i want it like 2k7, where everyone becomes incredible, but lets meet somewhere in the middle: certain mini games you can do to improve your players. Something like the offseason drills for franchise in madden.