MLB 08: The Show

MLB 08: The Show
Price: $59.99 USD
MLB 08 THE SHOW is set to provide fans with the most realistic baseball experience to date with innovations such as a more immersive Road to The Show mode, enabling gamers to play both offense and defense from the created player's perspective. Providing players with some additional performance incentives, the MLB franchise introduces the Progressive Batting Performance feature, which will both reward players for superior performance and penalize them for hitting slumps. Specific to each individual batter, players will be rewarded with slight contact bonuses, or punished with slight decreases in contact, based on how that batter performs beyond his "natural ability." MLB 08 THE SHOW introduces SCOUT (SportsConnect Online User Tracking), which allows you to set and store your game preferences on the MLB server, and enables the system to look for a Quick Match with opponents that fits similar competitive criteria. Exhibition Mode/Quick Game - Gamers can select their favorite team and compete against the AI for a quick game on the go Historical Greats - Offers Historical Greats, giving them the opportunity to go against the legends of the past Release Point Pitching with Confidence Meter - The ultimate pitcher/batter interface returns Playmaker Fielding- The fielding interface brings the player attributes together with the user's skill level Multi-Branch Fielding - Branch Point Technology goes to a new level as gamers can now take full control of fielders and break out of any animation in the process User Controlled Slides - Players can now control base runners in attempts to advance and/or score MLB Authenticity - Presents fans with finer details and nuances that make the game America's past
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Customer Reviews
  • Great
    Great baseball game lots of fun, still cost to much on Amazon. I picked it up for 15 dollars at target.
  • Best baseball game to date
    This game definitively lives up to all of the hype. If you are a hard core baseball fan, love video games, this game is the way to go. <br /> <br />Pitching, fielding, hitting, and base running are the most realistic and fun of any other baseball game I have played. Pitching is not only pressing a button and expecting the pitch to go exactly to that spot, as with other games. In this game, the pitcher has to work to get a good feel for all his pitches. The more you use a type of pitch, and the better you get hitters out with it, the more effective it becomes. The less you use a pitch, the less effective, and harder to throw (as in real life). <br /> <br />Franchise mode in this game is great. You have comprehensive control including player contracts, ticket prices, vendor prices, travel costs, and even bank loans. Since most people probably can't play every game in the season, the simulation mode is pretty accurate. You can even sim through innings in the middle of a game. Playing with the Giants, they were around 30-35 after two months of the season with pretty similar stats to their actual performance this year (horrible hitting but great starting pitching). <br /> <br />To top it all off, graphics are excellent.
  • The best
    I'm very picky about baseball games, but this is the best one I've ever played.
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