Posted: January 17 2006 at 8:12pm | IP Logged

Source: TeamXbox.com

You can’t fault 2K for bucking up to lock down the MLB license for awhile - EA did the same thing with the National Football League.

The lack of a pro license pares a developer’s options back a bit. You either a) use phony pro teams, b) use NCAA teams, or c) don’t make a game at all. Rather than let down the MVP addicts out there, EA decided to go the collegiate route in MVP 06 NCAA Baseball. If NCAA baseball doesn’t excite you, maybe the new gameplay features and reworked presentation will. Then again, if you can recite every TWIB Note ever reported, maybe there’s no convincing you that MVP 06 NCAA Baseball is worth playing.

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Posted: January 18 2006 at 6:37pm | IP Logged

Ted, I've looked at that quote on a variety of levels and it makes no sense, no matter how hard I try.

As a veteran of one baseball game (High Heat 2003, I think, I recall it had Curt Schilling on the front and was the only HH title released here lately) I couldn't comment on the game or the competition, but I didn't think an awful lot of that review.  By the time you get to the end of the final summary, it becomes clear that the review has been largely designed around what the game isn't rather than what it is.  It's not an MLB game, I assume the presence of the letters NCAA on the front were the giveaway, so would it not have been much better to review it on the strength of what it does as an NCAA game rather than saying it's ok but not MLB?

I don't know - am I being too critical?

Cheers,
Adam

Posted: January 18 2006 at 6:53pm | IP Logged

As long as we can change our lineup and starting pitchers before the game and are able to play 9 lag-free innings, I don't care what other online options it has.

BTW, I thought the review kinda sucked too.