MLB 07 The Show | List Price: $29.99
Discount Price: $6.99
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Platform: Sony PSP
Brand: Sony
Binding: Video Game
Release Date: 2007-02-27
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Features: - The top-selling baseball franchise for PSP in '06 is bigger, better, and back for the '07 season
- Adaptive Pitching Intelligence delivers a revolutionary enhancement to artificial intelligence that considers strengths, weaknesses, and trends
- All-new Road To The Show career mode literally puts you on the field to play from player-based cameras and allows you to fast-forward between every at-bat and defensive play
- Pitch Command System challenges you to utilize the full repertoire of every pitcher in the Major Leagues
- Online leagues, MLB.com Headline News2Go, My Sliders, real-time MLB tickets, and much more
Nice Game, Terrible Manual [Posted on 2007-10-14]
So this game is an OK upgrade from MLB 06. It's probably the slowest game I own for my PSP but once you're on deck things move pretty quickly...unless there are two runners on base then the screen can get choppy when the action starts.
Warning to newbies: the game manual is flippin terrible! If you don't believe me go to Sony's web site and download the PDF. The only direction it gives is basic overview of the controls. You will be lost if you don't know what the different onscreen indicators mean. There is a lot to learn before this game can get really fun so if this is your first foray into a sports game then be prepared to spend a few hours getting spanked by the AI.
If it's all you got! [Posted on 2007-11-18]
I just recently bought a PSP and got this game so I could play some baseball. The graphics are amazing. I have only played the season so far and havn't tried anything else. Some of the aspects of playing the game are garbage. I had a guy hit an in-the-park homerun by running from second across the pithcers mound and home. I have had runners go from first to thrid by crossing the diamond and have had runners run past second and all the way to the centerfield wall. I did want that guy to go home but not literally. I watched David Ortiz take a pitch that should have hit him in the chin and hit it 400 feet over the Green Monster. Right. Throwing the ball from the outfield is always fun. I tried to throw a guy out at second and hit the button to throw the ball to second and for some reason the ball went to home plate. When the ball is first hit who you are going to control is always a fun guess. On a ball hit that one would think the second baseman is going to get for some reason I have control of the shortstop. It wouldn't bother me to much if the second basement would get off his lazy butt and go after the ball. That is some of the problems I am having with this game. I keep playing it cause I'm stuck in Iraq and don't have much else to do to pass the time away. I'm thinking about buying a new baseball game, but I guess this will have to do for the time being. If it's all you got, it's all you got.
Overall good game with a few setbacks [Posted on 2007-11-18]
I enjoyed the game with exception to a few glitches. The only time on career mode that the manager let me throw a complete game was when I was close to throwing a perfect game. There were times when the manager pulled me with 1 out left in the game and a shutout was still intact. You can question the decision but the common response was that he saw that I was tiring or that sometimes he says that he should have left me in longer, but the bottom line is your player/pitcher gets pulled, having it impossible to complete some goals such as getting complete games, etc... Then there are times when the fielders double clutch, resulting in what should be errors but the computer always gives them hits, which goes against your player/pitcher's avg. against.
With exception to those glitches, I enjoy the hitting, pitching and fielding aspects of the game.
MLB 07 Rules [Posted on 2008-01-08]
MLB 07 is the best sports game on the psp system period. The graphics and sounds of the ballparks are the real deal.
A decent baseball game [Posted on 2008-04-05]
My favorite baseball game ever was MLB 2k5 for PS2. The controls were spot on, it was hardly ever glitchy, and the graphics were pretty good for that day and age. However, after buying a PSP, I realized I wanted a quick baseball game as it is that time of year. Not wanting to shell out the extra bucks for MLB 08 or 2k8 (since graphics aside, there isn't that much year-to-year difference anyway), I picked this up. First, let me say the graphics are high-PS2 caliber, and that is saying A LOT for a PSP game. For a very small screen, they cram a lot of stuff in, the only downside being the total lack of detail on players' faces. Another thing this game does very well is totally immerse you in a highly realistic baseball experience. Some games (most, really) still leave you feeling less like a manager and more like a 20-year old who's sitting on his parents couch playing his PSP. However, this does a very nice job of all the small things, whether you're in season, career, or quick play mode.
Now for the controls. I really love the batting and the "guess the pitch" controls, and pitching is wondeful as well. Fielding is decent, but the fielders seem really stupid, a routine ground ball will sometimes not be thrown to first in time just because the fielder didn't throw it hard enough (and I turned the throwing strength slider all the way up and nothing changed). But now we come to the part of the game I hate most: the baserunning. First, it's extremely hard to control, and second, the baserunners only obey you about half the time, which makes for an unholy mess. The AI is suspicious as well, it is very easy to cheat. (For example, if a runner is on third and there is only one out, simply bunt along the first base line and the fielders throw to first every time, giving you an easy run).
Online play and gamesharing are completely underwhelming. I have done both at least three or four times and every single time, the pitching was off for both players. I could not control where I was going to pitch, and my opponent could not control what he was going to pitch. It was also really really laggy and glitchy.
It's a decent game, and most likely the best baseball game on PSP, but very disappointing in the MLB franchise.
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