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MLB Power Pros | 
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| From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $4.25
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Rating:  12 reviews
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Baseball Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 37315
UPC: 710425373152
EAN: 0710425373152
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Cartoon-like version of MLB players are brought to life with player-specific facial details and expressions | | • | Stunning MLB ballparks with famous landmarks bring authenticity to every game | | • | Amazing animations with incredible double plays, diving catches, and even home-run-robbing wall catches | | • | Easy pick-up-and-play mechanics in both pitching and batting, making it fun for both novices and gamers | | • | Game modes include Practice, League, Season, Home Run Challenge, Wii Remote Mode, and Success Mode |
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Product Description
America's favorite pastime gets a fun new twist as MLB Power Pros, the latest installment of Japan's popular baseball videogame series, debuts on the PS2! Every MLB player are represented in the Power Pro character style - a miniature toy-like figurine model. Gamers will recognize their favorite baseball stars through comic usage of facial expressions, facial hair, and hair styles. Even each MLB ballpark has been faithfully replicated with their respective famous landmarks. With a unique control system, amazing animations and an assortment of enjoyable and challenging game modes, this is baseball as you've never seen it before! ESRB Rated E for Everyone
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
Power Pros is simply AWESOME ! September 26, 2008
Brendan A. MacWade (New York, NY, USA)
I haven't played a baseball game for the PS2 since All Star Baseball 2003 by Aklaim (remember that?) What made that game great was the realistic action, 900 players (both living and dead) and 50 stadiums, including classics like the Polo Grounds, Ebbet's Field, and the original Yankee Stadium (before they ruined it with blue vinyl siding).
Well Power Pros takes all the realistic physics and action from recent simulation baseball games, and presents it as fun anime-style game. But don't be fooled into thinking that this is an arcade or platform game. It is just as deep as simulation titles a few years back (think EA MVP Baseball 05, which I hear is EA's last great baseball title before it degraded as MVP NCAA Baseball 06/07).
Apparently, Power Pros has been enjoyed by Japanese gamers for 14 years. In some ways, it is the successor of SNK's Baseball Stars 2 (1992), a cartoonish baseball arcade game. The current version for the Japanese Wii and PS2 is 'Jikky Powerful Pro Yaky' 14, which features the licensed teams of the NPB. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jikky%C5%8D_Powerful_Pro_Yaky%C5%AB_series ). We're fortunate that this hit game has finally come to North America with the blessing of MLB to feature its teams and players in the same goofy, fun format.
While Power Pros lacks historic ballparks (like All Star Baseball) or the ability to build a custom ballpark (like MVP Baseball), it gives players as little or as much control over a team as they want, just like the simulators for the PS2 today. They can create a league for online or multiplayer action. They can create a college player and develop him through the NCAA, AA, AAA, and the majors (the 'life' mode is very challenging - it usually takes multiple ties to get a player to advance into the minors). They can take control of a real MLB team as GM/manager for a full season in role-playing mode. Or they can use the practice, home run, or exhibition game mode for instant MLB action. The action can be fast - 9-inning games are almost always 30 minutes long. So mastering the fielding and base running controls is crucial if you want to get the most out the games. There's a lot to do, but in my opinion, it is all fun.
Power Pros can be forgiving, too. So it is friendly to casual gamers and younger kids. Every aspect of the action (batting, fielding, defense, pinch hitting & running, pitching changes, etc.) can be set to automatic, semi-automatic, or full-manual. You can play a game just controlling pitching and batting location, or go full-manual and control fielding depth, hit & run tactics, and how your base runners lead off the bag. And with every game played, either exhibition, life, or season, the stats in your profile only grow richer. As many reviewers have noted, this is a kids game with a remarkable amount of grown-up statistical depth.
In just a couple of days of exhibition play, I've noticed that the stats are highly realistic in how my left-handed and right-handed pitchers perform. They fall into patterns I see in the real-life statistics of today. For example, the 2006 Red Sox in this game have a team ERA in the 4-5 range, and their left-handed pitchers paint the outside corners better, while the righties are far more effective inside. I'm not statistics nut, but I know my Red Sox history, and these little guys are performing as I would expect. Schilling is often hurt. Matsusaka is shaky. Papelbon and Beckett are nails. And Lester has promise, but can only go 2 innings. And so far, the easiest batter to strike out is Griffy (poor Ken).
And if that wasn't enough, how about the art direction and the welcome arcade aspects? The style is bubbly Japanese anime. The career (life) mode is goofy, with your player attending college classes and experiencing a kind of tamagotchi-like social life. In game and season mode, each player has a 'mood' icon, which improves or degrades within a game or during the course of the season. Remember when one of your players in NBA Jam caught fire? That sort of happens here when your pitcher strikes out a side, or wins a few games in a row. These aspects lose some realism, but they make this game a lot of fun for kids and adults of all ages.
I'm sure this game is wicked awesome on the Wii. But it is a blast on the PlayStation 2. Discover sports games again and add this to your collection. The PS2 platform is far from dead, and Power Pros (and Madden 08 & 09) helps prove that.
good fun.. September 17, 2008
Delli07 (Hawaii)
This is a game with a low learning curve that is extremely fun to play. I admit, i really haven't cared about a baseball game since Baseball Stars on my nes, but this game is fun!!!
MLB Power Pros April 20, 2008
J. Mac Lean (Astoria, OR USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this game to play with my grandson (he is 6) who loves baseball but I didn't want to get one that was to hard to play or learn how to play. This game was the perfect game. It is fun for the young and the old. It has all of the Major League teams with their players. You can pick which team you want to be and play against each other with your favorite teams. I didn't really read the directions before we started so it took us about 45 minutes to get all of the plays down (pitching, hitting, catching....). Once my grandson learned how to hit home runs there was no stoping him. My son-in-law is in Iraq and is to be home soon, so I bought another MLB Power Pros (they have a Wii) for my grandson to take home, so when his dad gets back they can play. If you are looking for a game that is a REAL challenge then this is not the game for you. But if you are looking for a game to just play and have fun with then this is a good one.
 Good Game April 7, 2008
D. E. Garcia (Guatemala)
This is a great game to play Baseball!!!
But the only thing is that does not save the stadistical avg. for the players, on each game that i play Ken griffey Jr. is 1 Run away of the all time RBI record.
Always the same number of RBI's
But a Great and fun baseball field to be playing for hours.
Great game! Part 1 of 1. March 15, 2008
Cassidy5 (Eastern America)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first found this game on the computer, I thought this is a good game to buy. I recieved the game, and after 2 days I'm addicted to it. This is why:
Gameplay: The gameplay is very good. The graphics are great, the player reaction to pitches is fun to watch, and the controls are easy. Feilding is requested to be auto, the batting is only colliding a bat and ball, and the pitching is wherever you locate the ball.
Roster: The roster is pretty easy to understand except for creating players. For that, you must take a player from the free agents and edit it by going to my data and select edit players and select the player. You cant to this when editing a created team. My only slight problem is the creators of the game didnt give credit to players by their ability. People like Trevor Hoffman and Mariano Rivera get bad ability but others like Abreau and some others get great ability. Other than that the game is great. Overall : 4.5!
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