Hitting will give you a slight sense of enjoyment but that all goes away once you get on base.
User Rating: 4 | Major League Baseball 2K11 X360
Hey MLB Guys lets take a game and say there have been improvements and re-live the whole 1Mil for the first perfect game thrown thing and put a game out there for 60 bucks!! Oh o.k. you guys did never mind then. Look I love the baseball genre and was totally let down last year but then hearing that changes were made to improve the game play I was hoping upon hope that this years release would be better. Boy was I wrong!! The pitching is ok even though you can throw the ball so far out of the strike zone and it will be either called a strike and the ball will mysteriously appear in the zone and be hit. A single ask you? OH NO its either an extra base hit or a home run each time. However, like I said the pitching is o.k., because these were rare. The hitting gives you a nice sense of achievement when you crack one, but don't get your hopes set on making a slugger and expecting to hit HR's. NO, after a 30 game stint I had hit one (1). That's all while racking up 73 hits. Now lets talk about why you should NOT and I repeat NOT buy this game. The base running is ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS!!!!! I mean it Stealing is almost impossible and while my guy has average speed hes constantly thrown out from right field and first and don't even think about breaking up a double play. I guarantee you wont even make it half way before the ball has already been thrown to second and relayed to first. One of the goals is to hit n run... HAHAHAHA Yeah ok sure I am literally holding down the advance runner button and hes not moving until after the guy pitches. The AI pitcher doesnt throw over much unless you make a speedster and even those guys are SLOWWWWWWW with there perspective job I mean. Of course the speedster is going to be the faster of the preset, but its still just BAD! One thing that will upset you to the point of just sitting there and either having you mouth open and saying "Huh?" or cursing so bad people think you are nuts. When you are running DO NOT hit the advance button more than once. If you do, your guy can be standing on the base and all of a sudden just take off. I mean it for no reason just takes off for the next base. The goal system is trash. It gives you goals like don't strike out. Ummm o.k. really hell my two year old could randomly press a button and get a pop out ground out or whatever. Then the one I love the best is get and extra base hit!! COME ON, REALLY?? How the hell can you be worried about trying to get an extra base hit. Just get on base. That is a goal as well BTW. So I rated this game a 4 because of its lack lustered game play. The graphics are OK seems like there are a lot of pixels just jumbled together at some points on the players. I mean if Tiger Woods can have a very smooth looking player and nice looking atmosphere why cant all games? I am taking the game back today which is 2 days after purchase and getting MLB 12 The show. I played this game last year and will say it kept me involved for quite a while. However even that lost favor about 75 games into my 3rd year. Hope this helped someone from spending their hard earned money on a bad game.
