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Major League Baseball 2K5 (World Series Edition)

Major League Baseball 2K5 (World Series Edition)

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From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games

List Price: $19.99
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Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars 3 reviews

Platform: Playstation2
Genre: Strategy Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: World Series
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0

MPN: 27898
UPC: 710425278983
EAN: 0710425278983

Release Date: April 5, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new Item. CD, DVD, Book, VHS more than 400 000 titles to choose from. ALL days Low Price !

Features:
  • Great World Series Moments - Re-live or re-write history as you take on 10 of the greatest moments in World Series History, including the 86 Mets, the Battle of the Bay and more
  • Pennant Fever Mode - 2 games out or 8 games out, take your favorite MLB franchise all the way to the World Series
  • Team records are locked in to match the real-life '05 Pennant Race, to build up the excitement
  • Updated team rosters and fully updated team rosters let you enjoy the late season excitement in all its glory
  • Top-notch gameplay options - On Command Baserunning, Online Leagues, Skybox mode and lots more

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
MLB 2K5 World Series Edition lets you live the thrill of winning the World Series. Take on the best teams in the country as you live out baseball history -- or rewrite it! Great commentary featuring Jon Miller and Joe Morgan Includes custom MLB DVD -- 45 minutes showing the real-life World Series situations, compiling the most pivotal World Series moments


Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Fun Filled Baseball Action   September 27, 2006
Paul Hemenway (Colorado Springs, CO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I picked this game up for 15 bones at the local game store, and I have to say that I'm impressed. All the ESPN stuff was removed, which is a downside. However, that's because when this game came out, ESPN decided to give all their rights to EA and went away from Sega. Ah, oh well.

So the game suffers a tad in presentation. The announcing is still great, but the music on the menus is actually bad as it studders and stops and for some reason is buggy.

On the contrary to what the kids were saying here, I actually found the pitching to be too easy. I play with the Kansas City Royals, and I find it difficult NOT to strike someone out, and I play the game on the middle high level of 3(there are about 5 levels of difficulty: 1 being the easiest and 5 being the hardest). The thing thought that I love most about this game when I'm on the defensive side of the ball is that everything is incredibally simple. All I have to do in order to reach, dive, stretch, or whatever in order to catch the ball, is point the right analog stick in the direction of the ball, and that's it. Throwing to each base is simple, and like every other Sega Sports game out there on the PS2 in order to go turbo you just hold on the R1 button. To pick off players trying to steal you just tap the direction of the base to where you want to throw by hitting the d-pad once. That's it. I'm not going any further in detail, but as you can probably gather, this game is very easy to pick up and play. Offense is just as simple.

For me, gameplay is everything about a game so that's why I actually fell in love with this game. Simple, and not complex. If you know a lot about baseball there is actually quite a bit of control you can have over your team. You can call players up from the minors, make schedules for your pitchers, blah blah blah you get the picture that you have virtually total control of your team. For baseball fans like myself who just want to play the game, you can have the CPU deal with all that so all you have to do is simulate to the next game, and I love that feature.

The graphics are descent, and not the greatest I've seen but also much better than what I've seen in other baseball games. EA probably has everyone beat in that category as this comes in a distant 2nd and could almost give up that graphics spot to Acclaim's All-Star Series. The ball parks are well done, however, and what is lost in detail on the players makes up for it when you see each stadium richly designed in detail right down to the very seats within the stadium.

The bonus DVD that comes with the game about some of the greatest World Series games played is fairly nice and entertaining to watch. The game itself has some various features unique to this version that the origanol 2k5 baseball game did not have.

Overall, this game is extremely fun and easy to pick up. I gave it only 4 stars because some of the presentation was lacking, and I found this game a little bit on the non-challenging side unless you crank up the difficulty settings.



1 out of 5 stars IT STINKS   November 9, 2005
1 out of 9 found this review helpful

It was awful! I always made an error. My brother hit like 25 home runs. dude its awful


1 out of 5 stars I am truly disgusted   November 5, 2005
Mean Critic (USA)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful

WARNING - This is NOT ESPN MLB 2K5!!!!!

Everything pertaining to ESPN has been REMOVED. Errors and home runs IN ALL DIFFICULTIES have been drastically INCREASED. You WILL throw a wild pitch in atleast one of every five THROWS, not pitches but just throws, and that is just on rookie difficulty. The "roster updates" are just a handful of players and nothing else. The Angels are still listed as the Anaheim Angels, and the White Sox are not even ranked in the top five! To make things simple, this game should in no-way be compared to ESPN MLB 2K5. Just stick with that one if you want a real MLB game. This "world series" edition is a Super NES quality JOKE.


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