World Series Baseball
Genre: sports - baseball
Publisher: Sega
Year: 1994
System: Genesis
Gameplay Score: 2
Gameplay Notes:
There's no way to tell if a pitch is a ball or a strike, whether your pitching or hitting. Pitching ostensibly allied you to choose the placement but your porch never hits its target. I was throwing balls nonstop with Greg Maddux. Riiiight Hitting is also a crapshoot. You can't move within the box or anything like that so just swing at everything and hope for the best. Base running is weird. You have to press the d-pad to the base where the runner is coming from and hold. B. To tell him to run to the next base. You do the same thing to make him retreat but press A. It's the opposite of any other baseball game I've ever played so I could not get used to that. Movement is extremely slow which makes fielding easy. This is one of those games where you can hit for contact normal or power and pick a pitch. But honestly, I don't see much difference between any of these options.
Level Design Score: 2
Level Design Notes:
Just exhibition and season modes. No options to tweak.
Theme Score: 2
Theme Notes:
Includes both MLB and MLBPA licenses. It just doesn't feel good though. It's just sort of blah.
Art Style Score: 2
Art Style Notes:
Extremely grainy and washed out looking graphics. The players have stilted motion and just look robotic. There's no fluidity to the graphics.
Audio Score: 1
Audio Notes:
The play by play isn't as robotic as Sports Talk Baseball, but it's close. Constant crowd noise drive me up the wall, as does the intermittent sound it's that play, like a popcorn vendor yelling.
Overall Score: 38
Review ID: 1405
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