MLB'06 offer and launch a brand new rivalry mode that allows you to create and maintain rivalries between multiple actors, an improved franchise mode and refined, with more intuitive features, completely new to the forefront of its career to highlight all your accomplishments in his career as an innovative mini-game for the King of Diamonds, where the pitcher and batter in the square of the park in the classic games, new game time Decisions bring more depth to the franchise and season mode, and a man new three places with MLB'06 offer and any new way that rivalries can create and maintain rivalries between multiple player features a refined and improved franchise mode more intuitive, new brands at the top of his career is to highlight all the achievements of his career mini-games innovative new king of diamonds, which the pitcher and batter in the square park in classic duels, all new decision time game will give more depth to the franchise and season modes, and a new bridge with three men
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Awesome Game; but with some very annoying flaws...
MLB 06: The Show, is without a doubt the best baseball game on the market. However, it does have some very aggravating flaws that will takes some getting used to. Among other things, players have a habit of advancing to second base on their own, even if there is a runner on second that is not moving, or if they just hit an infield single. I can't begin to tell you how many outs of lost because of this. Another annoying glitch is the frequency of wild pitches. Once you get used to the controls, there are less, but there are still an unrealistic amount. When you're first getting used to the game, it will seem like every time you throw a slider it's a wild pitch.
Now, enough of the negative stuff! Let's talk about why this is the best baseball game on the market today.
Graphics: 10/10 The graphics are amazing in comparison to any other baseball game I have played. I played 2K5 last year, and I though it's graphics were excellent, but The Show will just amaze you in comparison. Player movements are much less choppy.
Gameplay: 8/10 As I have already stated, there are some glitches in the gameplay that can be really annoying. But one other annoying thing about this and EVERY baseball game that has come out in the last 2 years is that you can't slide into first. It's acctually just impossible. Why this is I have no idea, as in all of my really old games you had this capability, but not here. Really weird. Still, the gameplay is a lot of fun and very realistic. You will no longer hit a home run every time you come up to bat, you have to acctually keep your eye on the ball and aim your swing.
Extra Game modes: 11/10 This is what makes the Show stand out above the crowd. This is the only baseball game out that has an ACTUAL HOME RUN DERBY! 2K5 only had some game where you saw how many homers you could hit in a specific time period, but The Show has the actual derby from the all star game. 10 outs, anything other than a HR is an out, multiple rounds etc. This mode is especially fun to play with friends. King of the Diambond is also an interesting mode, in which you chose one batter and one pitcher and play an arcade style game with ghost sunners and bonuses.
Franchise: 10/10 Amazing, and I absolutely love the stadium management stuff where you can set food and ticket prices and even advertise games and hold "bat day" or "bobblehead day".
Career: 10/10 This is Baseball's answer to John Madden Football's "superstar mode". You create a player and guide him through the minor leagues with the eventual goal of makeing "the show".
Overall: 9/10 All in all, MLB 06: The Show is an outstanding baseball video game. I highly reccomend it, but there are some glitches that can get very annoying at times, so be warned. In reference to the review above which states that the game has problems with lockups ("freezing"), I have had the game for over a month and have never experienced a problem.
Great game, but room for improvement
I've been playing this game for about 3 weeks now. In previous years I was loyal to the EA Sports version until they lost their contract with MLB this year.
The Show 2006 is a very worthy competitor. Better in many ways and not as good in a couple of others.
PROS:
- Graphics are good; no better or worst than EA Sports as far as I can tell;
- Love how the pitching works, and how pitchers will lose confidence. In a tight game you can really "feel" when a pitcher is starting to lose it. Forces you to manage the bullpen, etc. which I like.
- The "Guess Pitch" feature when batting is just outstanding. Allows you to sit on a fastball (if you so choose).
- Gameplay is smooth.
- Settings are very customizable. For example, by default the game is set with a lot of cut scenes between pitches. A replay, the runner standing on first, etc. This makes for great realism but it really slows down the gameplay (I mean, if I want to watch a baseball game I'll just turn on the TV, otherwise I just want to play the game). The great thing about The Show though is that you can turn all this stuff off, which makes for a much quicker transition between pitches/batters.
- Franchise mode is very in-depth, much more so than MVP, particularly on the financial side. You can set up advertisements, take a loan from a bank, etc. Some will like this, others will think it's too much to manage. Again you can customize this to your liking (e.g. have the computer run the financials).
- Sony updates the MLB rosters weekly, which you can download via online mode. Much better than EA Sports.
CONS:
There are several areas that can be improved:
- The announcers voices lag behind the gameplay. Not a huge deal to where it detracts from the fun of the game, but definitely a little annoying after awhile. A company like Sony should be able to clean this up.
- Lack of variety by the announcers. Again, not a huge deal, just a little annoying. For example, every time Willie Taveras comes up to bat the color commentary is "and you can see by his numbers that he's swinging the bat a lot better at home". Every single time.
- Trading players in Franchise Mode is a complete joke. This is a big one for me. As an Astros fan I like to take the team in Franchise mode and "tinker" with the roster a bit. First of all, the computer won't allow you to trade multiple players for a single player (for example, a 3-for-1 deal). This happens ALL THE TIME in baseball, but not in The Show. In The Show, the computer says "unable to make trade as the Yankees don't have roster space", meaning that they already have 25 players assigned to their roster and so can't take on two more players while giving up only one, as it would give them 26 players on the roster. This is ridiculous; obviously a player should just be pushed down into the minors. This is how MLB handled it.
The stupidity doesn't stop here though. Assuming you do find a team willing to trade, the AI is just awful. For example, in April/May during my season, just to test the system I offered Morgan Ensberg, Roy Oswalt, and Brad Lidge to Tampa Bay for Carl Crawford and two scrubs from AAA. Tampa Bay wasn't interested. HOWEVER, once the trading deadline came around in July I was able to trade a 28 year old AA pitcher for Crawford. I made similar types of trades to acquire Joe Mauer and Dontrelle Willis.
For me this is a really big negative of the game as I love the franchise mode. EA Sports was far superior in this category, and Sony has a lot of work to improve the AI here.
- This is very nitpicky, but I personally don't like the swirling baseball graphic that appears on the field during a pop fly (the area to which you are to direct your fielder to catch the ball). Would prefer something a little simpler.
- I've had a lot of trouble with effective baserunning. Not very intuitive for controlling manually. And when you set it to allow the computer to handle baserunning, every now and then you'll see your fat, slow catcher (or whoever) trying to turn a single into a double. Not a huge deal, but sometimes annoying.
In summary though, I can definitely recommend The Show as a very good game. The gameplay, particularly the pitching and hitting modes, is better than EA Sports in my opinion. The annoucers are not as good. The franchise mode is more in depth, with the exception of making trades as noted above.
ADDENDUM: After completing my first season in Franchise Mode, in fact the game does allow you to trade multiple players for a single player. The AI still is not very saavy as you can get some real steals by trading with AA and AAA scrubs. But it is possible to do it.
A lil disappointing
This game seems half baked. Good ideas with poor execution.
Graphics:
Arguably the best part of the game. The graphics are nice and the faces of star players are pretty well rendered. Body types aren't as well rendered and look pretty generic. Stances and deliveries are done well. Ballparks are also replicated nicely.
Little glitches mentioned later detract from otherwise beautiful game graphics.
Gameplay:
The pace of the game is slower than any baseball game I think has ever been put out on a platform--but in a good way. It does give one the feeling of a real baseball game one would view on television. This can be quickened up in the options if one prefers a quicker game experience or just want a 'quick and dirty' game. The commentary is pretty good and although a little bit repetative is not annoying except for exclusion of a lack of recording names for almost all game generated players if you play franchise or career for a decent number of seasons.
Pitching lacks depth in that every given pitch breaks the same way. No differing breaks on any changeup, although one may break more given the pitchers ability. Also many pitchers especially relievers seem to be given extra pitches that they don't throw in real life presumably so 2 or 3 pitch pitchers cannot be guessed so easily for the pitch guessing feature in the game.
Fielding
The controls feel a lil slow and clunky in the responsiveness department. Throwing feels the worst as the game really needs a throw meter.
Tuning
Some gameplay feel that I found a little not to my liking or a little off was the ease of getting on base via bunting--especially drag bunting. More than what would be a normal amount of infield singles. Many of what should be routine double plays the first base runner beats out. Injuries don't seem to happen often enough. I think I hit 6 or so batters in a row without my pitcher being thrown out and with none of the batters sustaining an injury. Ease of wild pitch seems a little off also. For as much as the game wants to be simulation-like it loses credibility as rare events happen to the point of being routine.
The title "The Show" would make you think the developers spent a lot of time on their unique Career mode that lets you create a player and play through his career--WRONG! It's not terrible at all but is not much more than a franchise mode without any control over the lineups and rosters since you are just a player. The mode lacks the depth that could have made this title uniquely great. Nothing happens by chance except injuries with the choice of playing through it or not. Recieving mentoring from veteran players or advice from coaches is totally absent and it's a shame. Also the notes other players and the manager quickly become repetitive. You feel pretty detached from the team. An interesting feature would be to open up requests with say the owner or the GM once you reach 'veteran' 'all star' and 'hall of fame' status, increasing your clout in your organization based on your star status and importance to the team as an individual or the ability to recruit key free agents.
Bugs that are pretty inexcusable and may be a gamebreaker for you:
1. Game freezing during a played game
2. Lack of running tagout animations. First time I ran down a player I literally wasn't sure if I'd tagged out the runner because my player didn't reach out with his glove.
3. The minor but very annoying 4 shadows for every player on the field.
4. Umpires don't move, they sometimes in overhead shots go 2d, and you can walk right through them like they are ghosts.
5. A glaring lack of recorded names for game generated players. Hearing, "Number 24 comes to bat!" gets pretty annoying if you play career or franchise for a number of years and game generated players start to predominate the league. Some minor leaguers do get the recorded name treatment from the game for some reason, but not the majority.
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