Major League Baseball 2K6 Review

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(More customer reviews)As a huge baseball fan and moderately fired-up gamer, I was primed to enjoy MLB 2K6 PSP. I'd read how the graphics were so hot you could tell the players apart just by looking at them. Surely it had to be better than the cheapie game I downloaded onto my LG cell phone -- you know, the one where your runner stays glued to first base while the batter hits one off the wall, resulting in your basic 8-4 fielder's choice.
Well..... Certainly the graphics are impressive. The game LOOKS right. But playing it? Forget it. Maybe it's me; maybe I've lost all hand-eye coordination overnight. But I found 2K6 absolutely unplayable. I lost my first two games by a combined score of something like 26-4. Figuring I needed to crawl before I could walk, I then opted to play the Yankees against the lowly Royals. Only lost 6-0 this time!
Don't get me wrong; I'm not ticked off that I kept losing. I'm a loser all around, I'm okay with that. But check out the way you lose. Your runners get thrown out on the basepaths left and right, even if you aren't particularly aggressive about sending them off. I somehow managed to get 12 hits in one game without scoring! Has there even been a 12-hit shutout in the big leagues? If there has been, it probably wasn't much fun, and neither was this.
Defense? Sometimes it works fine. Other times, your outfielder might decide to pull a St. Vitus Dance on you, turning a single into an inside-the-parker for the other team. And for some delightful reason, whenever the other team has a guy on first, your catcher decides to rebel against his job description and allow pitches to fly over his head. He also turns out to be crotchety about chasing the errant throw, resulting in your basic first-to-third-on-a-passed-ball play. Fun fun fun!
The hitting works all right, the pitching is good, the graphics are great. Hopefully the glitches will go away next year. Yeah, that's right, wait 'til next year!

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