So I bought the MLB 10 "The Show" for my Hubbs who is a consumate Baseball fan/player. He went from mild mannered, soft spoken man, to an intense, yelling, screaming, laughing fool!! He can't put the game down. He kept saying that Baseball is the one sport that takes more technique and talent...and he felt immediately challenged with "The Show". It took him over a week of daily playing to win his first game. The graphics are amazing, the stadiums are exactly like the real thing.... the pitching, hitting, fielding all requires a different skill set. Thank you for making my Hubbs the happiest man on the planet - the downside, is unless my name is Jeter or A-Rod, I hear "hold on Honey, 'til I finish this game"...- Hooked in Salinas, CA

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To get started this is the best baseball game ever. The graphics are great and the gameplay its self are great! There are a couple of game modes you can play. You can play a season,home run derby,franchise,exibition and road to the show. I am currently in a season with my phillies. Its not too hard and not too easy. Its a great game for any baseball fan. So overall it is a great game. I highly recommend you to get this game.

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BOUGHT FOR MY GRANSONS BIRTHDAY,THE DAY I CALLED TO SEE IF HE GOT IT HE WAS PLAYING IT AND HE LOVED IT AND HIS DAD DID TOO SO IT SEEMS TO BE A WINNER.

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Even,only on the veteran level,(second easiest one),It is Impossible to score runs almost, and they crush my pitcher no matter how good he is on franchise mode.In previous games you could pick your coaching staff and Manager.I can't seem to here!I lost last night 26-3 against Toronto and lost 17-2 the game before that to the Rays.3 is my high run total for the season!I skip spring training mode,But now maybe I should consider playing through to get these guys in shape,maybe thats why they suck!?LOL!Home run derby mode is the best,Maybe ever!(and yes,your teammates still laugh at you if you swing and miss!),(silently-of course)It is the most realistic baseball game I have ever owned so far.The various opening's they have weather its 2009 feats, or Joe Maur's season or milestones or The Yankees winning world series #27,Is really cool and keeps things more interesting!Good3-man commentary as well!This will take time to get good at,But I AM glad for one last Baseball game for the PS2,and it's a keeper!!!

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The Pros:

Realistic, great graphics,

The Cons:

Difficult fielding, no way to make the fielder run faster after a ball, leading to a lot of missplayed balls.

Pitching Box does not display accurately the Strike zone. You put the ball in the strike zone box and more times then not it's called a ball, very frustrating.

Hitting is Ok but if you don't crank the sliders all the way up you might never get a hit, frustrating.

Does not display info or name of the hitter when he's up. Scorecard info and season info.

When pressing the L2 button to get info it stays onscreen for about 1/2 second. Why have this option if the user can't review it?

I'm a user who just wants to play the game in season mode, period & don't need all the other options included. Probably less is more in this case.

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I now have played this game enough to write a review. The game is fun too play and is better then 09 that it is slightly easier to hit home runs if you can get the solid hit slider just right and the timing just right. I only give it 4 stars because I still like 08 the best even if it had glitches, in Both 09 and 10 they have the fielding sliders, base running sliders for base stealing and so on in the global sliders. Where in 08 you could doing that along with the batting sliders for the Human player and not let have the computer have the same running speeding and fielding and so on. I do like challenges in a game, but not too hard and it be nice if MLB the show took out the other hitting sliders and change it back to 08 where it was a lot easier to hit Home runs and not wimpy ones. I still recommend 10 but will need to practice a lot and experiment with the hitting sliders if you want to hit home runs to center field other wise will need to pull the ball all the time to Hit them.

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While many things are the same, graphics keep getting better. I like the way MLB keeps rosters up to date.

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I just got this game the other day and I love it. The graphics are great for the Playstation 2 and the game is really fun. It's a little hard but still really fun I love how all the players look exactly like the real people even there batting stances or the way the pitch.

This is a great game for video game fans or baseball fans.

This is a must by for either!

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Long story short, this is the best of ML baseball games still available for the PS2. Unfortunately - and inexplicably - the ability to connect to the Internet was TAKEN AWAY from last years PS2 version!? I can only speculate that this is an attempt to force users to purchase the PS3 which has the Internet update feature.

In summary - game play is great (both single player and two player modes), but no update ability really stinks!

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For 3 years, I had completed 6.5 seasons using MLB07. I didn't want to get the new version because I built such a foundation with the 2007 version but after 6 seasons, the rosters were WAY out of whack and too many computer created players on MLB rosters with the same faces!

This new version has its ups and downs. First, the graphics are poorer than MLB07. For example, Mark Teixeira is as white as a ghost. The fieling is a bit better. One plus side is the reality of the game. On MLB07, I was playing using "Hall of Fame" difficulty. In this version, I'm using "Veteran" and am facing a bigger challenge than 07's top level offered. I actually have tough down-to-the-wire games, even with the best of rosters. From that standpoint, it is more realistic with player stats and standings. In MLB07, all of my players batted .300+ and 7 of my 9 batters had over 100 RBIs. In this game, the numbers are more realistic as players hit hold/cold streaks like real life. Pitching is more realistic as well. Just as in real life pitchers have excellent, good and poor days.

One downside is the batting mode. I've adjusted the hell out of the batting sliders. In 07, I didn't have to adjust anything. In this version, for a player who in real life is MVP quality you have to increase the sliders when batting in order to get some real contact hits. Plus, if you call the right pitch and location, let's say it's going to be a fastball Low-Inside corner, the PCI will be stuck on middle-inside. Where to go from there is still tough to figure out. Whether or not to use the L stick a lot or just a little is a mystery still. It seems that if the PCI is an inch or two above the ball dot, just slightly move the L stick down, but the PCI doesn't move. Need to guess what part of the plate your batter is covering. After 3 months of a season, I'm just starting to get the hang of it.

So, if you want a more realistic game that will provide a bigger challenge, this is it.

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I was well on my way to banishing the PS2 to the basement. This game saved its life. I had been addicted to MLB 09: The Show but grew tired of waiting for the game to load. This version makes many improvements on the game load times though. The game loads much faster in many ways. You no longer have to sit and watch a frozen screen before the system figures out where to go next. The animations are more fluid and realistic. Of course the PS3 version has better graphics, but the one thing I admire about the PS2 version is being able to use my EyeToy to scan pictures into the game. The PS3 can't do that!

If you have a PS2 still laying around, scoop up a copy of this game. At (...) it'll bring all the punch and action you'd find in the PS3 version, if not more.

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If you have a PS2 do not buy this game, they fail to tell you that all online play and roster updates have been deleted drom the PS2 version. You now have to make all your own updates when it comes to roster control. I will never buy this game again!!

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trust me id rather watch myself slowly age and die than to play this. i could list all the things id rather do but ill just warn you, dont waste your money.

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