Mr. Showtime

Still didn't get my WSB2K3 in case anybody was wondering.

Yes, their is a minor league system. I'd have to get back to you on the rest, I'm so wrapped up in watching this war, I won't be playing the game for awhile. I mentioned the minor league players in another post, a few names that we all know, but the rest looked like made up names. As for free agents, it's pretty close to what we see now. Rogers and Finley are still there for the taking in the game.

Jesus. I don't care that much about the jersey's.

Start a thread like mine, but lets only have one review thread on WSB2K3.

This is sweet because you don't even have to aim at them. You just hit L1 and they throw it right at the guys head. I was laughing my ass off.

Looks like Konerko stopped by the SNR studios.

I don't think you can choose your jersey during the season/franchise. However, when you're playing a regular exhibition game, you can wear the 1917 uni's. Sox have Colon, Rios, Olivo, Borchard and Rauch. No Daubach though, since he isn't allowed to be in the game. So it's pretty current, haven't really looked at the other rosters. The minor league players are sorta right, but not at the same time. Ginter, Barcelo, Porzio, are the names I recognized, the rest are total no-names in my world. I'd give the game an 8 out of 10 right now. I've adjusted to the hitting, and gotten a feel for the controls. Once I've played some more, I might bump that up when I see how things progress during this franchise. One cool thing is that you can beam players in the head, and even hurt the, by doing this. I know that is a sick thing to do, but what are you gonna do?

Tons of cool stadiums. No Old Comiskey. But they have "Classic Wrigley, and Future Wrigley." Future Wrigley looks exactly the same, but has double deck bleachers.

Ghey. As far as the Cell goes, they have the new stuff in center, but they have the old bullpens still. Unf***ing real.

I've got it on the easy option now. I'm making contact every time now, however, it's realistic as hell. You have to swing at the mistakes or you pop it up. I did launch my first homer yesterday though, hit it with Borchard. Not sure on the Old Comiskey option, would have to look.

Few more notes: Trivia game is pretty fun to do. If you're having trouble hitting, hit some Batting Practice, I put the batting interface on easy. Which means you see the strike zone and that's it. That way all you have to do is see the ball and hit it, as opposed to trying and use the cursor.

Right, I just got a weird message like that while I had to pull White. It told me to let him finish this inning off, but it said he was out of gas. There was nobody out in the inning either.

I went through all the hitting options, and that just makes things worse. You really have to be quick on the draw. When the pitcher throws, a white circle will show where the ball is headed, if its' not in the strike zone, don't swing. I went down 7 times in a row because I was swinging at everything in sight.

Nope not yet. I did order it, and once amazon gets their s*** in gear, I'll have thoughts on that game.

OK, maybe it wasn't so brief.

Finally, after all my talking about it, I own the game. I'll be updating this thread as I play the game further. Let me just state that I haven't played ASB since Larry Walker was on the cover like 25 years ago. Let me also add, I've played just one game. Maybe, an hour's worth of the game. So this isn't very in depth. On to the fun: First thing that sort of struck me as bad was that Smash Mouth has that ghey ass song "All-Star" in the v-roll (video package). I hate that song with a passion, cool package besides that. Next thing that I find odd was the way you control the main menu. In a vast majority of the games that I've played, you use triangle to go back to the previous screen, well, here you use circle. That took awhile to get used to. I just selected a regular game, no franchise or anything like that yet. I went with the Sox ofcourse, playing the Twins in Minnesota. Once you get past all the stadium and jersey options, they play the anthem as you get a look at the stadium. The game has a real FOX feel to it. Psycho and Tom Brenehmen (I know its' spelled wrong), are the broadcast team. They show the lineup and highlight a player, in this case it was Magglio and they brag about his stats. Then you see the two pitchers in the pen warming up, and the announcers talk about their stats, quite cool in my mind. Next is how the defense shapes up for the Twins (in this case), and then it's onto the game. Not sure if he said it here or to me on aim, but Spiff has said hitting is a pain, and boy is he right. After awhile you get used to it, but first time in, its' K city. They have 4 different hitting options, in terms of an icon, or there not being an icon. You really have to be a selective hitter or you're in trouble. Takes some time, but after a game or two, you get the hang of it. In my case, MVP Baseball will be here tomorrow, so you can bet you're ass I'll get the controls of that game and ASB all screwed up in my head. Anyway back to the game. Pitching is pretty easy, pick the pitch, aim where you want it to go, nothing to it. You can throw at hitters, after you select your pitch you can choose to throw it or, throw it at the guy, sweet. Fielding is simple, bases are the triangle, circle, square, and X. Triangle being 2nd, circle being first, x being home, and square being third. Most of the baseball games have that, so that's nothing big. The managers options kick ass. You can relive the glory of the Nardi era, and send the pitching coach to the mound, a screen will pop up with the pitch count, and status of the pitcher. In my case, Colon was "rattled", coach suggested to warm someone up. Funny thing was Manuel goes to the mound for this, or atleast it was a black guy, Cooper as we know, not black. No biggie. Best/Worst part of the game at the same time was Thomas charging the mound. I'm down 4-0 to the Twins, and that biotch Brad Radke hits Thomas in the knee. He gets out of the box jumping around, and the ump yells "Your out of here", then Thomas charges towards the mound sadly the camera pans away. So Thomas got ejected, which was ghey. That's all I have for now, I'll have more later if anyone cares.

Yes.

ASB has arrived. MVP Baseball will be here tomorrow.

OK, ASB didn't arrive today, so it'll be here for sure on Tuesday. I will have my review of the game up Thursday.

Rogers can bite me. My guess is Boras told him to stay out of Chicago.

No. Bush is going to talk tonight, I'd look for Thursday.

If you mean why do we suck in ST vs. them, not sure. If you mean why do we play them in the regular season, MLB rotates the inter-league play matchups. At least Bonds is coming to the Cell.

Son of a b****.

How the hell did you get it before me?

That game was the s***. I remember you could run your player into the wall and it would make this loud thud-like sound. I would do that over and over again. Hours of laughs. I own and still play the N64 version of Griffey baseball, when you do a season, the scores are real high earlier in the year, but once you get half way through the season they start to come way down. I've got way to much time on my hands, so I love to play all 162 games in a season, if the game is good.