- Season mode featuring full MLB schedules, stat tracking and roster management, as well as the ability to play as part of the team and general manager.
- New Legend mode in which players create a player, progress your career from a Mexican league to the Majors and, eventually, the Hall of Fame. Along the way, compete in boss battles against MLB legends.
- The ability to train your players in action-oriented mini-games triggered by advanced legendary moves.
- Pitcher/batter duel in the Batter¿s Wheelhouse, where hitters are strongest, but sneaking a pitch past the hitter will shrink the wheelhouse for the rest of the game.
- Earn power-ups trigger special effects, like a massive windstorm to prevent sluggers from belting a big home run.
Product Description
It’s the last stop. The final destination. The BIG SHOW. It’s where dreams born in backyards are finally realized. Where the fences are FARTHER. The grandstands are LARGER. And the spotlight is BRIGHTER. It’s where thieves run FASTER, pitchers throw HARDER and the sluggers go DEEPER. Where the bats are BIGGER, the spikes are SHARPER and the comebacks are harder to swallow. It’s where home runs are RUTHIAN and fastballs CATCH FIRE. It’s where a monster lurks in left… More >>
This was my first sports game for the Wii, so i didn’t really know what toexpect….I really really hope they’re not all similar to the bigs 2. The only pros i would say about this game would be the fact that u can use the classic controller, which really helps for sports games….and the graphics are decent, but not great….although i understand you’re not supposed to expect much graphic-wise on the wii. anyway, my most major disappointment was in the season mode– stats are kept but only the most basic ones, and they are hard to get to during the game. They don’t show anything stat-wise in game. Not all players are available for use, only 5 or 6 pitchers and i believe 12 hitters. The “points” that you accumulate during a game is just ridiculous, if i wanted to play something where i needed to win points i’d put in a non-sports game. You also don’t have complete control over the situation when playing the computer, if they want to get a “Big Slam” they will just load the bases without you having any control over the pitches that were thrown, and then the next guy will hit a grand slam magically. Its just RIDICULOUS. Thats a good word to sum up the game. Anwyay, i would give this game 2 stars as opposed to 1, due to the fact that maybe non-baseball fans and kids would enjoy it. BUT IF YOURE A REAL BASEBALL FAN AND BASEBALL VIDEO-GAMER, DO NOT GET THIS GAME!
Ratings: 2 / 5
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!! The controls on this game are awkward and poorly described both in the game’s tutorial and in its manual. I tried to even throw a pitch and couldn’t get it to register my movements. Swings are also delayed in hitting, which makes that difficult, though not impossible like the pitching is. This game should not have been released in this condition.
Ratings: 1 / 5
I’m having a lot of fun with this game and thats why it gets 4 stars. In reality it probably should be 3 stars but no matter the flaws you cant beat good gameplay. The home run pin ball is a lot of fun…those breaking balls can be really tricky! Legend mode offers a good mix of regular games, specific goals and the chance to upgrade your guy while stealing other players. Season mode seems a little too linear for me and for some reason I seem to be able trade anyone making too easy. I tend to pick this game up every 3-4 days and usually don’t want to put it down..any longer though and the old wrists would be in trouble.
Pros:
Great Gameplay
Smooth mechanics for pitching
Good background music
Decent enough commentary & varied enough to keep it not to repetitive
Strategy of using big slams, big heat to beat the opposition
Legendary catches look cool
Legend mode adds variety including going to other countries
Controls are intuiative (but need practice)
Players attributes simulate real players in the MLB
Cons:
Mini games can be annoying and irrelevant mechanics
Some legend targets are difficult
Graphics are a bit poor
Fielding can be tricky at times
Ratings: 4 / 5
I was a bit skeptical of this game, I’ve been let down by baseball video games in the past. However, after spending a few innings learning the control scheme, this is by far my favorite baseball game. Certainly; it’s worth mentioning that this is the only one where pitching is just as much fun as batting, so you don’t have that “lets get the top of the inning over with” feeling.
I won’t go too much into the details of the game-play. It’s enough to say that it’s definitely an arcade baseball game; though there’s enough meat to satisfy hardcore baseball fans too.
Well worth the purchase.
Ratings: 5 / 5
This game could have been so much better but it just doesn’t get it done.
To start with, the graphics are pretty poor. Yeah, I know its a Wii but they look like something you would have seen on Nintendo 64.
The various modes of gameplay are varied enough that you can spend a good while in each of them but in reality, its all the same.
The regular “play ball” is okay, about what you’d expect…just a single game.
The season play is about the same.
The legend mode is kind of fun but the mini games are rather pointless in that you have to “pass” them in order to move on…so its more frustrating than fun. The way the games are set up make them tedious.
The actual gameplay is okay…being able to actually throw a pitch or swing the bat is nice but once you get past that, its just kind of a dull repetative game. There are some times in the game where you’ll have a “duel” between a hitter and a pitcher and all the hitter has to do is make contact and he’ll hit a homerun…kind of silly to me.
Another aspect are the “legendary plays” when someone makes a great catch. They usually occur about every other inning so they loose their “coolness” pretty quickly.
Pitching is easy…just get your powerbar to max and the hitter is going to strike out. Move your controller with some twist and there you have it.
The rosters for the teams are pretty limited. You have probably a total of 5-6 pitchers…which I guess doesn’t really matter because all pitchers pretty much pitch the same.
In all, this game is fun to just play a pickup game but it doesn’t have everything that it could or should. They could have done much much better on this.
Ratings: 2 / 5