MLBPA Sports Talk Baseball
Stephen Hawking on the micGenre: sports - baseball
Publisher: Sega
Year: 1992
System: Genesis
Gameplay Score: 2
Gameplay Notes:
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 Score: 2
Level Design Notes:
Exhibition and playoff modes
Theme Score: 2
Theme Notes:
MLBPA license but no MLB
Art Style Score: 2
Art Style Notes:
Everything about the game looks early gen but it has a decent frame rate.
Audio Score: 2
Audio Notes:
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.
Overall Score: 40
Review ID: 1080
No comments:
Post a Comment