Major League Baseball 2K8 | 
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| From: 2K Sports
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $52.99
You Save: $7.00 (12%)
New (28) Used (6) from $44.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 450
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
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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 14 more reviews...
 It's not great, but it's the only thing 360 has May 22, 2008
I've been playing this game often, but it becomes extremely frustrating. There are numerous bugs that just break the flow of the game, including slowdowns during fly balls, choppy instant replays, graphical problems in regards to collision detection, and poor graphics (far less than stellar). Also, it's worth mentioning that many people are experiencing freezes often, online play is incredibly laggy, so really not worth playing online, and out of the box the frame rate issue was horrendous, so a patch was released improving (but not fixing) the issue- you cannot get this patch unless your Xbox is connected to the internet.
That being said, it's not a bad baseball game at times, but not worth $60. An update is allegedly in the works, which hopefully may fix the issues and improve the value of the game. Check out the 2k Sports message boards for more in depth issues and gripes about the game.
this game sucks period! May 19, 2008
The one thing I hate about this game is the pitching, every time you pitch the other team scores a run,I even dropped the AL computer ratings but it still gives the advantage to the computer. Do us a favor 2k sports if you make a game next year please bring back the classic pitching mode from 2k7.
 Reminds me of the late 90's bug filled Baseball games May 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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