Definitely not what you expect in a PS3 baseball game. It felt like I was playing the Playstation 1 again..

User Rating: 4.5 | Major League Baseball 2K9 PS3
Steve Phillips is(was) one of my favorite baseball announcers despite all the bad news about him lately ruining his reputation.. and Gary Thorne does a pretty good job, but I grew up hearing him on the hockey side, so I think he should stick to that. The game could have used a ton more commentary lines out of both of them.. you play 2-3 games and you've heard everything they have to say for an entire season. I know hearing the same things over and over in a baseball game is inevitable.. but they could have put more content in it to make it not so often..

The game is either too easy or too difficult. Chipper Jones, Brian McCann, and other above average MLB Players hit 2-3 home runs per game if you're good at it, and that gets old fast because it's simply unrealistic on that kind of basis. Your outfielders run way too slow to catch up to most of the CPU's hits.. but when you hit the ball they run as fast as they need to get you the out. Unless you use the batter's eye feature, 90% of the time you bat, you will hit a pop-up that the always all-star outfield will catch. When you try to catch the CPU's pop-ups.. getting in the right spot to make the usually easy catch is tricky.. sometimes the ball will land behind your outfielder while he still has his glove in the air staring into space while the CPU baserunner is on his way to third already. Definitely some annoying bugs present.

The trading cards feature is enjoyable, along with having the ability to unlock them through in-game achievements, but when gameplay is off this bad, it takes away from having the feature in the first place. The in-game sounds are too unrealistic.. the crack of the bat sounds like a cannon going off when you get a big hit.. and injuries are way too common.. diving to catch a ball with either an infielder or outfielder on a daily basis in season mode is likely to get you a 200 day injury.. in just a 162 game season.