R.B.I. Baseball 3
Genre: sports - baseball
Publisher: Tengen
Year: 1991
System: Genesis
Gameplay Score: 3
Gameplay Notes:
I love the simplicity of the RBI Baseball games. This is a port of the NES title and it plays just like it. Everything moves at a slow, but not annoying pace. This makes fielding and baserunning easy to understand and react to. It also helps with hitting. This is one of the easiest baseball games out there. Pitching is your classic controls where you hold down to throw fast, up to throw light, and can make the ball curve across the plate. My only gripe is that your fielder's hitbox is so tiny that you often miss the ball. Well, that and the opponent AI is dumber than a box of rocks. Whichever fielder the ball approaches first is the only one who chases after it. So a seeing eye single past the first baseman can easily turn into a triple since the right fielder never comes in to get it. If not for those two warts I'd say this is the definitive japanese-style baseball game on the Genesis.
Level Design Score: 2
Level Design Notes:
Exhibition only
Theme Score: 4
Theme Notes:
MLBPA license with 1990 rosters. Anyone else have nostalgia for that era? I love the little jingles that play and the crowd noise that plays. This reminds me of playing my NES.
Art Style Score: 3
Art Style Notes:
NES+ graphics, obviously. Even so, the graphics are clean and simple and perform as you might expect. There is consistency across the board. Things don't look drastically different between the pitching/hitting and the fielding/baserunning sections, for example. They're not impressive graphics, but I like them.
Audio Score: 3
Audio Notes:
Again, the sounds are simple and nostalgic. Little jingles play when someone gets on base or whatever to get you hyped and the crowd noise that plays at appropriate times.
Overall Score: 56
Review ID: 1182
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