All Star Baseball 2004 Preview
We check out the Xbox entry in Acclaim's respected franchise.
Fans of Acclaim's All-Star Baseball series should be excited for the latest game in the franchise, All-Star Baseball 2004, since it appears to improve on and fix most of the problems in last year's offering. The Xbox game is scheduled to hit stores at the end of February, but we've managed to get our hands on an early build that looks quite promising.
As you'd expect from a fully licensed Major League Baseball game, All-Star Baseball 2004 includes all the teams, players, and stadiums from the major leagues. But it doesn't stop there--All-Star Baseball 2004 also features a respectable number of historical teams and stadiums, as well as more than 110 legendary players, including Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Cal Ripken, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Buck O'Neil. In addition to the rosters packed into the game, Acclaim will be offering downloadable rosters so you can keep your virtual game of baseball as true to life as possible.
The game's front-end menu system makes use of a 3D representation of the offices of a professional baseball team. The effect works like the menu system seen in some DVD movies, where you make your selection and the camera moves down a hallway or into another area with more-detailed options. For example, if you are going into the game's franchise mode and need to take care of some managerial business, you'll find those options in a 3D model of a general manager's office. In all, All-Star Baseball 2004 features nine game modes, allowing you to do everything from simply jumping into an exhibition game with two teams of your choice to placing yourself in a specific situation in the game's scenario mode, which allows you to tackle 21 of the most talked-about situations from last year's season, such as trying to win last year's All-Star game.
All-Star Baseball 2004 will also feature a new pickup game mode that is set up so you and your opponent are given 18 randomly picked players to choose from. You take turns picking players until you both have full teams, and then you play a regular game of baseball, just as if you were playing at school or in a sandlot somewhere. Also new this year are a number of DVD-style extras that you can unlock in the game's scenario mode. Included with the extras is an incredible assortment of original interviews featuring commentary from Cal Ripken, Derek Jeter, and others. Another really handy new feature in All-Star Baseball 2004 is the ability to save a game at any point so you can come back to it later.
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