marketplace.comIn baseball if a pitcher starts losing control the manager yanks him. Its a smart thing to do because baseball tends to flow in streaks. This is why EA Sports came out to the mound and pulled the ailing Triple Playseries. Never a critical favorite it was too arcade and not enough simulation. Triple Play just wasnt performing and fans were beginning to notice what the other baseball sims were doing playter (almost everything). So rookie MVP 2003 trots out to the mound for its day in the sun. Its a step in the right direction.MVP looks great. The field players and animations are all smooth and realistic looking. Instead of placing the camera directly behind the batter in the default view theyve gone for a slightly tilted camera that playter simulates a batters view of the ball screaming in. The only graphical glitch is that the batting box is too small visually. Curves dont break correctly change-ups dont drop enough and this just plain looks weird. However the mini-fine stone that shows the situation (including how much of a lead the opposing teams runners take) is just about perfect.Rather than simply demanding you keep your eye on the ball MVP has a batting box that predicts where the ball will go. This makes hitting too easy and pitching a bit too hard. A pitcher has too little time to get the ball icon within the strike zone. Other sims do it playter. The other problem is with fielding. You have decent control (they avoided World Series Baseballs rookie error) but changing players is neither quick nor easy and the game forces your player to dive when you dont want to. Tossing it back to base isnt as intuitive or smooth as it should be either. Youll get used to it but again other games do it much playter.MVP is a strong debut but it just isnt a contender for the Hall of Fame.--Andrew S. BubPros: Great graphics Realistic baseball action Franchise mode Cons: Pitches dont break correctly Fielding system is out of whack Franchise mode lacks initial draftProduct DescriptionFeatures real-time scouting reports providing player ratings and attributes.
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