This is the only review you need to read. It comes from a die-hard baseball fan and its from the heart and unbiased.

User Rating: 8.2 | Major League Baseball 2K7 X360
By loogs | Review Date:
Let me start off by saying that baseball and video games are my life. So I promise you that this is a very thought out and accurate review. This is a very good game with some problems, but your overall experience should be a good one especially if you’re a fan of baseball and baseball video games. Ill start with the graphics, which in my opinion are awesome. I’m playing on a brand new 50-inch plasma with component cables and the colors really pop out. Most of the player models that I saw were spot on and looked great. Some looked not so good but not terrible. I’m a met fan so I use them of course. David Wright, Jose Reyes, Beltran, Delgado all look great. They have their mannerisms and batting stances all accurately. The uniforms look great and the detail is amazing. You will not be disappointed with the way the game looks at all. I created a player of myself in which you have plenty of options, all though I would have like to have seen more options especially for the face. My first and last name are on the list which is a nice bonus to hear your name called by the pa announcer and the announcers will call you by your last name. I only played in a couple of stadiums but they look great. The fans look dumb but that doesn’t bother me. They fixed one of the biggest problems from last year’s game, which were the animations. No more weird throws. The only issue I have is the computer sometimes doesn’t know the right situation to use the right animation. For instance, a very slow runner hit a bullet up the middle that Jose Reyes got to quickly, he had all the time in the world to throw out the runner but he chose to rush the throw and make a really awkward looking throw to first. You will notice that a lot. Unless im doing something wrong. I haven’t figured that out yet.

That leads me to the part that most baseball video games drop the ball, pun intended, fielding. The fielding is the worst part of this game. Now that’s not to say that’s its terrible, it’s just not very fluid. You have to work hard to make the fielding work for you and it shouldn’t be like that. The fielding is just as important as the batting and pitching interface and they need to put more energy into making that part great. Also what in the world is with the robbing of homeruns? I see an average of three unbelievable homerun robberies per game, PER GAME, are you kidding me. You’d be lucky to see three catches like that a YEAR. Its like the owner of 2k sports had nothing to do with this game except for that. He told the developers to go ahead and make the game they want but put in one stipulation and told them that his 4 year old son loves it when a player robs a homerun so they had to put that in their and have it come up in every game played at least three times otherwise they would all be fired. It looks nice the first time you see it but come on, give me a break.

Now the batting interface. Wow did they nail this. Hitting is so much fun and its not hard to do. Try to guess where the pitch will be, if you’re right you get a little bonus, if not, good luck. The swing animations finally look great. The only gripe I have with this is that for some reason the contact between the bat and the ball does not always result in a realistic outcome. For example. I hit a home run and I could tell that something didn’t look right, so I checked the replay in slo-mo to see that the ball had made contact with the bat down by the handle really close to the hands. Now knowing baseball there’s no doubt in my mind that in real life that ball would have broken that bat resulting in a weak ground out, but here the ball traveled 411 feet and it was pulled. Very very unrealistic. I’m not sure how they allowed that to happen but they need to fix that next year. There are some other strange things that you’ll encounter while batting, but you’ll just have to see for yourself and figure out which ones bother you and which ones you can deal with. Overall the batting is lots of fun and very well done.

The best part of the game is the pitching interface. This is the reason you’ll want to play this game. It is awesome. The inside edge is a fantastic idea that works great. If you don’t own an inside edge report the pitcher will make suggestions for you. I don’t know what took them so long to put that in a video game it is a great option. Two problems from last year that they fixed and are just about perfect are, 1. The pitchers delivery is accurate as far as how much time he spends in the windup and stretch. And 2. The ball travels to the plate a t a very realistic perceived speed. You will enjoy this part a lot especially when you get into high-pressure situations. Great job on this one 2k.

The audio is not good at all. The announcers repeat themselves way too often. The stadium music is not realistic or true to their real life counterparts. The crack of the bat hitting the ball is way to exaggerated. The pitching does sound good but that’s it.

The menus are done nice.
Franchise mode is great. I don’t know about online but it seems to be done well.

I’m waiting patiently for mlb 07 the show for ps3 but I think this is the game to beat. Usually the show is a better game but this is next gen and no matter how many flaws this game has im not going to play the show on ps2. This game just looks way too good. My expectations are very low for mlb 07 the show on ps3 cause its their first try on the next gen systems and nobody seems to be able to make a good game on the ps3 except for resistance, but it may be able to blow this game away if they can combine their excellent baseball games with amazing graphics, well have to wait and see but for now GO GET THIS GAME RIGHT NOW…………….its ssssswwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttt.

Other Helpful Reviews for Major League Baseball 2K7

Load Comments (0)