Archive for the ‘Baseball’ Category
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MLB 09 The Show Community Preview Requests
As mentioned previously I wanted to give everyone a chance to get some requests down for things you would like to hear about coming out of the MLB 09 The Show Community Preview. The preview takes place at the end of next week. No pictures or video of the game will be allowed but most of what we encounter when playing the game is expected to be open for discussion. For those who haven't read through some of my impressions out of community events I tend to look at the game with a relatively...
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MLB 09 The Show: Improved AI
The weekly series of postings for MLB 09 The Show on the Playstation Blog continues, this time focusing on AI improvements. The blog goes over some areas in specific detail and was accompanied by a video that talks more about it. You can read it in full here. Today we’re going to show you some of our new and improved A.I. for MLB 09 The Show. Realism is THE most important thing to use here on the MLB 09 The Show team. Year in and year out, with a development team that has a wealth of base...
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FOM Gets Hit Hard By More Reviews
Last week it was OXM that had the first review for MLB Front Office Manager giving it a 5/10. Now the latest edition of Game Informer includes a review along with a second opinion where it received scores of 3/10 and 5/10. After the first poor review I felt it would be important that 2K change the story by finally beginning to show the game off and lay out the specifics of it. A similar type game in NFL Head Coach 09 did an excellent job of that. There has been nothing about the game si...
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MLB Front Office Manager Achievements
Generally I don't end up posting full articles about Xbox 360 achievement lists. However in the case of MLB Front Office Manager I was looking forward to the list in hopes that it would provide some more insight into the game. As mentioned in my last article on FOM we are nearing release with less than two weeks and have very little to go on other than the vague feature details. Unfortunately the list doesn't provide much in the way of clarification or new information. Actually the list i...
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Videos Of New Stadiums In MLB 09 The Show
For those who got to see the leaked video a while back it was exciting to get a glimpse of the new Yankee Stadium as represented in MLB 09 The Show. SCEA has now presented MTV with a video tour of the stadium. Also now added is the Mets new Citi Field. Needless to say they look fantastic. Continue on to watch the videos and leave your thoughts in the comments. The new Yankee Stadium was constructed, like many stadiums built for “MLB 09: The Show,” pretty much by one person, artist Kev...
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MLB 09 The Show Franchise Mode
Just as they did last year SCEA is planning a series of articles on the Playstation Blog that will detail different aspects of MLB 09 The Show. The first posting has just gone up and it focuses on the improvements and additions made to franchise mode. You can read it in full along with some screenshots here. When we set out this year’s plan, one of our goals was to blow out the personnel aspects of the Franchise experience. Starting with the beginning of spring training, the rosters you w...
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MLB FOM Fantasy League Interest
Concern remains that there isn't more available about MLB Front Office Manager as we now reach two weeks before the game is released. The details known about the game remain vague. A series of producer video blogs were promised but only the one from over a month ago has materialized. And the less than encouraging early review hasn't pushed 2K to attempt changing the current perception by promoting the game. Still though I am looking forward to it, especially when it comes to the Online Fa...
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Padrecast: MLB 2K9 Feature List
In the latest Padrecast I'm again joined by Chase Becotte from Operation Sports to discuss the feature list revealed a few days ago for MLB 2K9. It runs longer than we had anticipated (52:27) which can likely be attributed to the numerous severe problems with the game last year giving us plenty to talk about. The features that are now known appear to be an attempt to clean up those technical and design issues and make the game more accessible. To listen in you can either download the file...
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