Ballistic Baseball

I’ve been playing this game for a couple years now and I still enjoy picking it up for 15 minutes a day or so. The graphics are good, but not quite up to their full potential. Certainly not a deal breaker though. Gameplay is easy, and upgrading is simple. There ARE a few bugs that I want to mention, however… Certain pitchers will sometimes loose their heads. No, I’m not kidding. Weird as it may sound, the pitcher’s head will suddenly disappear, leaving an empty pair of pants and shirt floating around on the pitcher’s mound. The baseball cap floating in midair is quite amusing as well. Although rather comical, this tends to become annoying. Another problem I have is with my batters skipping bases. If I steal a base and bunt a foul ball in the same play, the ball with float in midair for a bit, and in the next play my first base guy will run directly across the field to third, and my batter will run straight to second… both of them nearly trampling the poor floating uniform on the pitcher’s mound. Lastly, under certain circumstances when playing against the computer in arcade mode, some pitchers will throw fastballs at about 125 mph, which is absolutely ridiculous considering that the fastest possible throw for a fastball is about 108 mph. All in all a great game, but please fix these annoying bugs.

I love this game so much!! Being a lover and former player of baseball I feel like pretty much everything is accurate to real life-whether it be the cutoff man when the ball is in the outfield or the diving catches everything just feels right. My only concerns to developers is if you could add something to where you can control your players when their running the bases, for example: I have a challenge where I have to hit three Grand Slams and it’s very hard to get one person on each base in order to get the Grand Slam or if I know I’m going to get thrown out at third when the ball is in the outfield. I wish I could hold players on a base whenever I need to instead of just hoping I’m safe. Another small detail is when I get that slow motion animation for the home run the batter leads with his hands and is almost pushing the ball instead of leading the hips and the bat follows. The regular speed doesn’t have that problem but, it’s just when it slows down it’s noticeable and makes me cringe every time I see it. Just a couple minor complaints but, nothing big enough for me to dislike this amazing game!

I have played this game for the past week non-stop essentially, really great game, love the progression part of career mode. The only thing I’ve noticed that could be improved would be a progressive amount of training points per each league. You still get the same amount of points as if you were still playing at the cornfield and only one inning, even if you’re at a 4 star team. For one team I have to grind 3 innings for the same amount I’m doing for a rookie team with 1 inning. I’m kind of cheesing the system with just upgrading 2 batters to full contact and full power and winning off of two hits in the rookie league. I can stay here for as long as I need to, but I would really enjoy a reason to play 2 more innings on my other team, but the rewards system isn’t up to par. Solution possibilities, Gain additional points for highlight features, e.g., a home run, grand slam, shut out, no hitter, etc. Again really enjoying the game, but I think allowing players more training points the higher you go or implementing a reward system would be beneficial. Don’t take the grind out of the game, don’t allow us to buy training points please.