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(More customer reviews)It would seem as though the folks at Wizbang (the developers of the title in question) were quite busy basking in the success of Baseball 2000, because they didn't spend much time improving it for the new year.
The first thing I do with any baseball game is create a player with my own name, crank up all of the stats to their maximum levels, and then go have a 4 home run game against Pedro Martinez. Typically this is accomplished via a ratings system. Baseball 2001's greatest new feature in my opinion is the ability to define and edit players based on actual statistics, rather than ratings. Instead of saying player x has a power rating of 99, you can say player x hit 74 home runs last year. This allows much more control for the statistics engine of the game to work with.
The feature, which is reminiscent of the Tony LaRussa baseball series of the early 90s (which was the best graphical baseball simulation ever in my humble opinion) is about all that is new in the game.
I honestly cannot see any difference in the graphics engine. The players (some of which have actual rendered faces) look very much the same; aside from some improvements in the stadium details, the game is graphically identical to BB2000.
More frustrating is the fact that the game is very buggy, and the same bugs that annoyed me in BB2000 have reappeared in the new version. For example, a common problem is a batter which steps up to the plate standing on the plate and gets hit every time! The game freezes at least once for every 3-4 games that I play. The extra task of having to save the game every 1/2 innning is very frustrating, and the crashes require a full reboot of the sytem.
I would not recommend this game to anybody that already owns the 2000 version, as it is much the same.
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With play-by-play and color commentary from FOX announcer Thom Brennaman, and game play that's designed for both the hard-core baseball gamer and fan, Microsoft Baseball 2001 brings a fresh perspective to the PC baseball category. The addition of the Baseball Mogul engine to Microsoft Baseball 2001 positions this version of Microsoft Baseball solidly against all other PC baseball games--offering an unsurpassed combination of award-winning graphics and arcade-style game play with Baseball Mogul's cutting-edge simulation technology.
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