Great game... but not your typical baseball sim.

User Rating: 8.5 | The Bigs X360
For those of you looking for a detailed baseball sim, this may not be the game for you. However, for a baseball game that is fast paced and provides more of an achievement based feel, I think it's great!

The turbo and power boost features can be used at just the right times to lift your team to victory. And the pitches can be downright nasty. I love powering up and blowing a fastball past my friends at 114 mph!

Plus, you can swing for the fences and take your chances on getting robbed of a homerun and powering up your opponenets boost meter, or play small ball to fill your meter and then launch one into the scoreboard!

The only downside is that the fielding can be difficult at times, and the baserunning functionality can take some time to get used to. Plus, you'll notice that the amount of different animations is a bit limited.

I've played a lot of baseball games on many different platforms... from MLB the Show on PS2 to NCAA College Baseball '07 on the original XBOX. Like most people I have good intentions of playing a full season and completely managing every aspect of my team. But the reality is that I don't have nearly that much time on my hands. So, this game is great because you don't spend as much time in the menus and a lot more actually playing the games.