World Series Baseball 2
Reviewed by Shinnokxz
One groggy day, I decided to go to the new pawn shop down on
the mini mall located on the other side of town. There I was
planning to buy some good games. But I was paritculary
looking for Saturn games, because... well... I had just barely
got a Saturn at that same place. I walked through the
opening door, and looked through the glass, hundreds of
Genesis games and SNES games glittered my eyes for only 3
dollars a piece. About 25 playstation games, 15 dollars a
piece for them. About 10 Sega CD games for only 2 dollars.
And Finally I came upon the Saturn rack. ohhhhhh no, there
was only 4 game there, 5 dollars a piece. I hade 15 dollars
with me so I was going to get three, but what should I get?
I got NiGHTS in a heartbeat. I played Daytona USA in the
arcade and decided to get that, the remaining 2 was World
Series Baseball 2, and Primal Rage. Knowing how stupid
primal rage is, I got World Series Baseball 2. But now, I
would've rather of gotten Primal Rage.
Game Modes:
'Exhibition Mode':
Exhibition Mode is just like any other Exhibition Game in
any other game or sport, if your to busy to start a whole
season, or your to lazy to start a playoff. In this mode you
will get to choose teams from the NL and AL. Then after
this, you will come upon a field selecting screen. There is
all 29 teams' fields here, and thats one of the good points
of the game. Then once you choose your field, you choose if
you want to go 1P vs COM, or 1P vs 2P. After that yoou
change your roster to whom you wish. Then you finally start
the game.
'season Mode':
For those of you who want to go all the way, try your luck
here. This mode somes to the same options for the exhibition
mode, except you can trade players here. The menu's in this
compartment is actually poorly put together and confuse a 15
year old. Expecially the roster menus. You see a whole
screen of your players for the tem you have picked. Then you
have to switch all of them the 9 people you want are first,
it don't sound hard but sheesh... just wait.
'Play-off Mode':
Ack... even more confusing menu's head are way. Now Play-off
style. Here you choose an assortment of teams you want to be
in the play-offs. Then, you choose a roster for those 19
teams (ACK), I just usually leave them as they lay. Then
it's tme to watch every game of the play-offs, yep, time to
watch one of the worst Saturn baseball games for about 3 hours...
Note: There is also a 'Home Run Derby' but that is just to
off to review, so I won't add it...
Graphics: 5/10
If you want to see worst BIT-map images doing repetitive
motions at they're best, buy this game. Lets' start off in
the fields's graphics shall we? After a long loading
session, the game finally starts, the camera circles the
field, and one of the most glass-shattering 'National
Anthem' songs ever played comes on the loud speaker. After
this brief moment of evil. You come upon a field with pop-up
prblems, camera problems, and just plain old ugly interior.
You throw the first pitch, the players look plain ugly. and
for some reson the camera is out of place! Yes you get to
purposely screw your putch up with the 's liding Camera'.
Enough about this field, the guys look so edgy and choppy,
the people out in the outfield look like huge big blocks
(let alone this is not a polygonal based game).
Sound/Music: 4/10
I allready told you the goof of a National Anthem song they
play you at first. But now we get into the annoying Ump.
Stupid music, and fuzzy player sounds. The Ump, sounds like
a turkey, when he says strike, he'll go 's TRYYYYIIIKE---HOO!'
And the sound of the characters falls, slides, and other things
like that sound apostricous. The music in the menu' screens
are also very annoying, involving dumb lyrics that don't get
you into the ball spirit at all.
Gameplay: 6/10
You start the game, pick your team, and go through the
confusing options setup. After about minute wait of loading
time, the game starts, that dorky National Anthem comes on,
and you start. You're up to bat, but already, the game goes
cheap on you! They throw curve balls out of your bat's
reach. Then when you don't even swing at all... the Ump calls
a strike. No!!! So after your out with no runners on base,
and it's your turn to pitch, you throw one of those
miraculous curve-balls and the AL hits it! By now your to
frushtrated to even go afetr the ball so from here untill
the game is over, you purposely try to hit the batter with
the baseball. The game's AL is just cheap atleast. But once
your friends get the hang of this 'curve-ball' they'll do
it to you to, so not even the TWO Player game is safe! After
a game of this so-called 'baseball', you might want to
through this CD out the window and Make THAT CURVE BALL!
Final Word...
Please, if you value your sanity at all, stay away from this
temper-torching game. Even the most biggest fan of baseball
will be tested by this game.
Overall: 5 out of 10
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