MLBPA Sports Talk Baseball for Genesis
Review #4359
MLBPA Sports Talk Baseball
Stephen Hawking on the mic
Gameplay
The gameplay is reminiscent of NES and TurboGrafx-16 baseball games. It's fairly simple in the pitching and the fielding, although I felt like it was hard to throw to first base by holding right, I would almost always through to second base.
Hitting is not fun. I played most of the game and only got a couple of hits. Very frustrating. I don't know what I was doing wrong. On the other hand, the computer had no problem getting hit after hit against me so the difficulty is too high
Level Design
Exhibition and playoff modes
Theme
MLBPA license but no MLB
Art Style
Everything about the game looks early gen but it has a decent frame rate.
Audio
The gimmick of this game is commentary which was novel back in 1991. Unfortunately it's poorly implemented and sounds like Stephen Hawking providing play-by-play. The commentary gets hopelessly behind and announces things that happen quite a while back. It's unintentionally hilarious.
Aside from that, the sound is actually pretty good with crowd noise ebbing and flowing like you would expect in a baseball game and not just a constant hum like in the EA games. However, there's still too much noise for my taste.
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