World Series Baseball

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World Series Baseball takes the Xbox field with ultra-responsive controls and the deepest Franchise Mode in town. Throw in old school players and unis, advanced gameplay and more stats thank you know what to do with and you've got the ultimate hardball sim.Product Description Baseball the way it was meant to be played is speeding over the plate with the release of Sega Sports World Series Baseball for the Xbox video game system. With refined pitcher-batter duels, stunning new fielding animations and top-notch camera action, you'll be right in the bullpen for this game. Featuring awesome in-game sounds, like player-stadium specific chants and a new two-man booth you'll be immersed in an authentic baseball experience. Detailed player faces and true-to-life habits, windups and stances of your favorite baseball players, this game is more than able to hit home runs all season long. The world of baseball comes alive with a richly detailed Franchise mode, complete with a full financial model, the ability to hire coaches and managers, select scouts to help pick the stars of the future, negotiate contracts and more. Every team and every stadium is fully licensed and beautifully represented to give you the most realistic MLB experience ever. Amazon.com In 2001, Sega and developers Visual Concepts--the same people who brought you the NFL 2Kx series and other sports games--turned out a solid console baseball game that was a major improvement on the previous version and the first with head-to-head Internet play. This version for the Xbox marks a similar leap in quality, combining some of the best features of its competitors into one well-considered whole. Alas, the only thing missing is Internet play. Going beyond motion-capturing batting stances (there are 89 distinct ones in here by my count), they've done a great job of animating pretty much every aspect of the game in pitch delivery, fielding, and base-running. The instant replay system, which borrows from and improves upon the one seen in the High Heat series, allows you to move the camera anywhere on the field to see the realistic movements at any speed. You can also use the feature to see the game's sophisticated artificial intelligence--for example, there's a brief, realistic delay when a player tags up from third on an outfield fly. There's also a solid pitching game that lets a starter like Tim Hudson get off without a shelling when pitching heat down the middle, but try it with a pitcher like Byung-Hyun Kim and you're bound to see different results. And the TV-style zone chart shows which locations each batter is best at connecting to and where your sequence of pitches has landed. A number of the new features are so obvious that you may wonder why you've never seen them before. One is a controller map in the pause menu that quickly shows you exactly which buttons perform the task you want. An option is also included that sets the relative speed of pitches to the plate. This really comes in handy when coming from another baseball game like All-Star Baseball 2003 where pitches seem to blur to the plate. To put it bluntly, the game has almost no downside. There are some very powerful GM and manager functions--including a fantasy draft and exhaustive franchise tools--though using them is somewhat counterintuitive. Stealing is kind of tough to pull off; in one game, Ichiro got caught twice out of three attempts. And, as stated above, there's no Internet play--but that gives us something to look forward to for next year. --Porter B. Hall Pros: Realistic player movement Smart AI TV-style zone chart marks hot and cold areas for each batter Variable pitch-appearance speeds Cons: No head-to-head play over the Internet

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