Beautiful on the Outside, Ugly on the Inside.

User Rating: 5.5 | Major League Baseball 2K7 X360
By cleanslate1982 | Review Date:
Gameplay (4/10) - The vast arsenal of controls you have is fantastic. The complexity of those controls is not. To put it simply, the game wll start off giving you random help pop-ups during a game to explain how to play. They are usually 5-10 pages longs. Hitting is very realistic, which makes it very frustrating to hit. Although, I hate the use of the R-Analog for this. You pull back to step into your swing, and let got for contact or move directly up for a power swing. Power swings are extremely hard to time, and sometimes you can click into a bunt or move the stick and accidently hit the pause button. Like I said, it gets frustrating. Fielding is an absolute nightmare. The wrong players move toward the ball when hit. Routine grounders will routinely miss your gold glovers glove.
Pitching, you need to purchase "Inside Edge" reports, or you will never know what the strike zone is. Especially since the catcher usually lines up outside of the strikezone. I don't like the way they did the pitching at all. It's a weird double-click system that's extremely hard to get down, and it's hard on the thumbs. Graphics (9/10) - They are almost perfect. Players just seem to move a little too slow in their animation. That's the only fault I have with the graphics.

Sound (7/10) - I swear I've heard the 2K Trax on this game on previous EA sports games. They are also very old songs. Sounds you'll hear in a real ballgame are fairly accurate, could use some improvement. The broadcasters are pretty decent as well. Value (5/10) - Depending on how much you love baseball and online multiplayer, the value score could vary. Franchise mode seems very empty to me, especially since I know I can edit all my players to be superstars during the season. Free Agency, Contracts, and Drafting mean nothing when you can completely edit a player. I think the difficulty, and the lack of a serious franchise mode seriously hurt the replay value of this game. It only gets a 5 because a few people out there will love this game strictly for it being a really fantastic simulation of baseball (to a fault IMO, there's a reason why hitting a MLB pitch is the hardest thing to do); and those people will find other's, with their same love for this game, online and play them for hours on hours. Those will be few.

Reviewer's Tilt (3/10) - For me, the game's difficulty really did me in. It's so hard to hit the ball, so I striked out a lot. The computer, rarely ever striked out. The fielding was terrible, my player would constantly drop routine pop-ups and grounders. The guy closest, would usually just stare at the ball as it rolled past them. The guy running towards the ball is usually the farthest from it. It was just miserable. If the game wasn't so hard, it would have been great. It will turn a lot of people off, except for the one's who have the gift of being professional video game baseball players. I'm not one; and if your not you could find yourself cursing way too often at this game. Like I said, this game is almost too real to a fault.

Overall (5.6/10) - It's worth a rental, because the game isn't that terrible. It's just really hard, and if you have no patience you might never play it again after a few tries.

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