Gets worse every year...
User Rating: 4 | Major League Baseball 2K9 X360
To be completely honest, I have never really liked the 2K series for baseball. Ever since they took it from ESPN, it seems like something is wrong with the game. MLB 2K9 is no exception. I made the mistake of renting MLB 2K8 last year and regretted every minute of it. This time, I made the wise choice and downloaded the demo of it. When I first started playing I thought, okay, the stadium looks nice. Then I saw the players. The face-mapping was atrocious. Most players looked like bums off the street. I see Ryan Howard and he looks like a guy they just picked up from the side of the building and got him to map his face. Just awful. Now, I never got that hit stick thing down, so I was obviously bad at hitting. Then I got to pitching. The meter thing isn't so bad, it is just when the other team hits it. Your team cannot make the simplest of plays without botching it. So by the end of the first inning your team is probably losing. That was the case for me so I was like "forget it" and I deleted the demo off my hard drive. It is sad how 2K thinks that they can make a crappy baseball game for the 360 just because they have no competition on this platform. If MLB The Show were on the 360, 2K would be going out of business. This is exactly why I just settle for MLB The Show for PS2 every year. It may be mediocre graphics, but at least the gameplay is right and fair. If you are a baseball fan and have a PS2, PS3, or PSP, get MLB The Show. If you don't, then you're out of luck.
