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Major League Baseball 2K8 | 
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| From: 2K Sports
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $49.79
You Save: $10.20 (17%)
New (24) Used (10) from $42.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 283
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 39352
UPC: 710425393525
EAN: 0710425393525
ASIN: B00118T6G4
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New And SEALED!
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| Features:
| • | Best Booth in the Business - 2K Sports proudly brings back the duo Jon Miller and Hall of Famer Joe Morgan to the broadcast booth, delivering the deepest commentary available. | | • | Swing Stick 2.0 - Unparalleled ball-to-bat contact, unlimited variety of hit types and more realistic at bats with deeper Inside Edge integration. | | • | More Signature Style - New and improved player walk-ups, batting stances, waggles, home run celebrations, step-ins and step-outs bring each player to life in true, 2K Sports fashion. | | • | Total Pitch Control - A revolutionary right analog stick pitching system where right stick motions and timing determine pitch type, speed and accuracy. | | • | Precision Throw Control - Unlimited throw types and trajectories using real-world physics and Inside Edge data bring realism and variety to every defensive play on the field. |
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Product Description
It's 2008 and it's time to hit home runs as 2KG Major League Baseball 2K8 brings you your best season ever. Thrilling features have been added to make this season more exciting. Are you out or in? Joe Morgan is announcing 2K8! Play ball!
Team play is more expansive as there are 90 minor-league teams added to the game, including authentic uniforms, many authentic minor-league stadiums, and a few generic ones as well. 2K8 also features a new baseball-card system, in which you can earn players' cards by completing certain tasks. You can then sell duplicate cards for credits to buy new card packs, which consist of 10 cards and may include a stadium or special team. But by far the coolest part of the card system is the online card battles. When you have enough player cards to fulfill the requirements of a full team, you can then combine your cards to create a team and take head-to-head against other gamers' card teams online. An entirely new and unique pitching interface which is unlike anything that's been done before. The main input comes from the right analog stick. The execution involves matching a gesture to throw the desired pitch. This enables a lot more granularity from the input than a digital face-button approach.
Revolutionizing your control of the 5 tools in baseball are brand new pitching, fielding and base running controls and completely overhauled batting interface. Featuring a totally unique trading card mode, robust Minor League system, all-new Signature Style animations for 2008, and more! 90 Minor League teams available in both Franchise and Exhibition modes Over 1 MILLION online gamers in the 2K community for head-to-head games
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Reminds me of the late 90's bug filled Baseball games May 6, 2008
Fun to play when the game does not freeze up. Too many glitches in Franchise mode to count. Cut scenes are horrible. IMPOSSIBLE TO DRAW A WALK even with the sliders turned completely to the left for AI pitching accuracy. I was very dissapointed considereing this is the 360 and we are now in the year 2008. MVP Baseball 2005 is far supperior to this. This is what happens when there is a monopoly. The game makers get lazy. One other thing, just like 2k07 the farther you get in franchise years the more bugs...
Too many bugs -- stay away May 6, 2008
I've been really, really trying to look past the bugs in this game, but I've finally hit my breaking point. This game is so full of bugs that it's unplayable. It literally freezes about 15% of the time for me. And no, it is not my Xbox. As a software developer, I understand that you cannot fix every bug or else you'd never ship. But to deliver a product with massive defects is inexcusable. Add in the fact that the opposing pitchers never throw balls and there is no contact swing, that seals the deal. 2K Sports -- epic fail. I will not be buying MLB 2k9 no matter what. [...]
A down year for 2KSports May 2, 2008
I get 2KSports baseball game every year. When the playability is good, I play entire seasons and its pretty much the only game I play for an entire summer. When the playability is bad, I get through a few games and it goes on the shelf.
This game sits on the shelf for me. Too difficult to hit and pitch this year unless you're in rookie mode, and in that mode no fun to hit 15 home runs a game.
 Rent before you buy! April 22, 2008
I have many complaints with this game.
First of all, it is pretty glitch heavy. It takes forever to load on several screens, and with no status bar that leaves the user wondering if the game has simply frozen.
Second of all, the learning curve is, as others have said, pretty damn steep. Pitching is insanely difficult. The slightest twitch in your thumb will frequently cause a wild pitch or the batter to slug a home run.
Third of all, the cut scenes during the game take way too long to load and are jerky. There is no smooth action to the gameplay. Even when I modified the settings to eliminate the cutscenes, the movement was still hesitant and jerky. During the fifth inning of one of my games during a batter change for the opposing team, the "End of Game" screen came up and announced that the game was over! I thought for a second, "Okay, cool. I'm winning," but when I got to the franchise screen it did not count that ball game as having been played.
Please rent before you buy. I'm glad I did. I almost shelled out $60 for this game until I remembered that I had a free rental coupon. There are far too many glitches in this game for me to find it entertaining.
The Lesser of Two Choices for Baseball April 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A review of MLB2K8 is pretty much impossible without comparing it to the only other baseball game out there, MLB08: The Show (and no I don't count 'The Bigs' which is horrible).
There are major differences between the games. 2K8 uses an analog scheme for everything, which I actually like more than the button pressing in 'The Show'. The problem with 2K8 is that the analog controls are incredibly finicky (although they are much better on the Xbox than the PS3, for some reason). And if you make a slight mistake in your gesture - or even sometimes when you make a perfect gesture - the AI team will PUNISH you with a deep home run or triple into the corner. Those guys never hit singles.
Another problem with 2K8 is the ridiculous "batter's eye" that never works. You have this tiny little sphere you can place somewhere in the gigantic strike zone, and I have never - NEVER - seen it correctly predict a pitch. Unlike 'The Show', if you predict wrong you get no information whatsoever about the pitch. You just have to time it.
The hitting itself feels better, to me, than 'The Show' with a pull back and swing forward motion (step on the egg shell, crush the bug) that really feels good. No real complaints here, except when I look like an idiot swinging early at a changeup. It also lets you pull or push the ball by slightly changing your stroke.
So it has better pitching (when it works), better hitting, better throw control. Why two stars? Well, because there are tons of bugs. As mentioned before the pitching interface will have you randomly giving up gofer balls, or perfectly executed pitches flying wildly out of the strike zone. At times it can seem like your every contact with the ball goes right to an enemy fielder, or they make highlight reel plays to catch shots that were destined for the outfield. It's like you can feel the game cheating - I had a situation where an opposing batter hit a high pop fly and I was given control of a fielder. He was right next to where the ball would come down, so I pushed right to get him closer. He overstepped. I pushed left. He overstepped. I'm frantically trying to get him into position, and the ball drops - ruining a perfect shutout and giving the computer the advantage. Conspiracy, or just buggy? Who cares. It still ruins the experience.
The presentation is muddled. The game slows down horribly at random times. The graphics look outdated, and the one little trick they added of the players' shirts ruffling in the wind just looks like Z-fighting. The announcers make ridiculous calls that rarely match the play. The game can't even figure out what's going on - I hit a ball off the foul pole and the words 'Ground Rule Double!' popped up while my guy was rounding the bases with his hands in the air.
Everybody says that 'The Show' is the better game, and unfortunately they're right. Conceptually 2K8's control scheme is better but it is so poorly executed that I'd rather just push buttons - at least with 'The Show' I know the game will mostly do what I tell it.
You can, of course, download the demo and try it for yourself. Maybe you'll like it - and of course if you don't have a PS3 you're stuck with this one for baseball. But 2K Sports needs to get this game in order. Clean up the bugs, fix the outdated graphics, and make the controls more consistent and they'll easily win over 'The Show'.
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