Dr Gadget - MLB Power Pros 2008

	List Price: $39.99 Our Price: $34.77 Your Save: $ 5.22 ( 13% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: 2K Games
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Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Video Game Brand: 2K Sports EAN: 0710425344411 ESRB Age Rating: Rating Pending Feature: Exhibition Mode - Play a one-off match with your favorite team Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Label: 2K Games Manufacturer: 2K Games Model: 34441 Platform: Nintendo Wii Publisher: 2K Games Release Date: 2008-07-28 Studio: 2K Games
Features Exhibition Mode - Play a one-off match with your favorite team Success Mode - Work your way from the Minors all the way up to the Big Leagues Season Mode - Play through a full season and compete for the championship MLB Life Mode - Experience life as a Major Leaguer League Mode - Compete in a league with up to 6 players
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great game, some minor flaws Comment: This is a great baseball game with a ton of features. This is easily the most in-depth baseball game you'll play, the players are cartoonish and mere caricatures of themselves, but that's one of my favorite parts, to see what a Johan Santana cartoonish looking little guy would look like, the creators of this game did a great job. Creating your own player is really fun, just like creating a mii character. However, when it comes to using that player in the game, you must play success mode (which is easily the worst "game" I have ever played) no joke. It's long and drawn out with a bunch of worthless dialog. It's like a baseball game trying to be The Sims, but there's no real control over it, just stupid draw out conversations like you would see in a pokemon game for game boy. There's no point to it. In that mode, you build your character up with different workouts eventually making it to the pros. Your success is based on those workouts and the way the game is setup, it's basically impossible to make it in one shot. Instead, you have to save, then reload, then workout, then save, then reload... over and over again because there are times you will fail and then you would have to start all over again. It advertises you can use your mii characters that you've created... but it's in an exhibition game and you don't get to choose which ones you want on the team. Not cool. Besides success mode and the lack of control with mii characters, I would say the "My Life" option is the only other setback. Here you can create your own character, work your way up from AAA (instead of AA like success) and "live the life of one of your favorite baseball players" which means all of the fun stuff I just explained in the success mode, plus you get to play golf, buy stuff to help you workout/train on your own, go out to the movies and oh, did I mention buy random stuff. Like success mode this also does a great job at making you forget that you are playing a baseball game. There's donations to be made and you have to worry about how well liked you are and such, blah blah blah, no thanks. Sorry, there's one more. There's season mode and league mode. Season mode is what people are used to with baseball games, but you don't just play games like you did for Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball, instead you have to jump on the bandwagon like all the other newer games out there that think you actually want to take the time and manage a team between games. I have to say though, this is the mode I play in and it is really fun once you ignore most of the managing parts. The League mode I just don't understand, I think its for when you have friends over and you want to play a tournament against your buddies, so each picks a team and then you have to play against each other, that's a long sleepover. If you're lazy, you can actually change all the info on preexisiting characters, give them different numbers, batting stances/swings, pitching forms, handedness, names and skin tone to name a few. Keep in mind that I am just one customer. I may have a lot of things to say about this game, but this also comes from a guy who would be upset if it didn't have all those options. They are fun to play for a little bit, but can get tiresome. I really enjoy creating a team in season mode and working from day one to the world series. Just keep in mind that when you create a team and grab really good players like ARod and Sabathia, you will come across them when you play their original team, which is good in that your team doesn't completely dominate the stat book (which it won't) and bad because it's dumb (especially in the NL) to hit/pitch against yourself. Go buy this game, you won't regret it. It is very fun with top of the line gameplay. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Game for Baseball Lovers Comment: If you're like us, you take your Wii Sports seriously. I mean, who hasn't torn ligaments while blasting balls out of the park in the Home Run Derby? Well, now that you've finished your rounds of physical therapy and recovered you're looking for a little more baseball. Enter MLB Power Pros 2008. This game is the hands down answer for anyone in your family who likes a good sports game. There are two big factors that drew us to the game. First and foremost, this game costs $10 less than most other Wii games. Second, what you get for your money is definitely not a game your kids (or you, as you secretly play after they go to bed) will conquer in a weekend. There is so much in this game I'm shocked it can be had for so cheap. First off, it's not some super-realistic simulation that requires the skill of a professional athlete just to make it through an inning. It's not even realistic looking. Though you can play as any of your real-life baseball heroes, they're all created in a friendly cartoon style. This makes the game more approachable for all ages and puts the emphasis on fun. Speaking of being more approachable, that's what makes this appealing for anyone in your household. The controls are not as obvious as those in Wii Sports, but they are still easy to learn and much less likely to put yourself in the hospital with a dislocated shoulder. On top of that, there's an assortment of ways you can let the game assist you. You can even have the game do all your pitching, batting, or fielding for you if you find these too difficult or tedious. This makes it a way to allow players of different ages and skill levels to play together. There's so much you can do in this game it will make even the veteran gamers in your family drop their jaws. Sure you can play a simple baseball game, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. You can manage your favorite pro baseball team and try in vain to get your beloved Cubs to win a World Series. Even more in-depth is a feature where you create your own player and guide him day-by-day through a 20-year career from college to retirement in the major. That's right, 20 years. Sure your virtual self has to play a game once in a while, but on his days off you'll have to balance training, friendships, career goals, finances, and even a girlfriend if you want! Your kids will have to make some real-life choices, which is an interesting twist on what could have been yet another mindless game. All in all this is one game that I would highly recommend for anyone who remotely enjoys sports on the Wii. One word of warning, this game has a home run derby as well. It is addictive and things will get ugly. Make sure you have health insurance before the men in the family battle to the death! Customer Rating: Summary: Konami Comment: This is the most famous and popular baseball game in Japan. Children, students, adults, old people, ladies, and gentlemen, all of them love this series for NPB(Japanese National Pro Baseball). "POWER PROS" is known as "Pawamajor" in Japan. This is the major league version of "Pawapuro" series. Although game part is great, but I don't love "Pawamajor" or "Pawapuro" not so "Pawapuro kun Pocket". Pawapuro kun Pocket series are for the portable game hards like GB, GBA, and NDS. So they have not a great graphics at the game part, but instead, Pawapuro kun Pocket series traditionally have the best scenario or story in all base ball games. I hope POWER PROS 2009 will be the nice story game. Customer Rating: Summary: Great for two person play. Solo is too easy. Comment: Most Wii owners start with Wii Sports. The baseball game in there is pretty basic but enough fun to point at Wii's potential. MLB Pro can be considered as a spruced up version, with much better graphics and real MLB rosters. It becomes my son's favorite Wii game instantly. We have had a lot of good time playing against each other. The solo part of the game is too easy, however. My son, on his first try, beats the CPU 12-0 in 3 innings. He never plays solo again. Unfortunately and strangely, the game does not come with different difficulty levels. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Game Comment: Really fun baseball game, great physics, ability to alter difficulty to your skill level. Deeps stats, and of course, really cute players. Only downside is that roster updates would be nice. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: MLB Power Pros 2008 delivers a unique flair to America's favorite pastime with an original visual style, pick-up-and-play gameplay mechanics and several deep gameplay modes. Gamers also get the opportunity to act as general manager and control the destiny of their own franchise in Season mode, or engage in entertaining role-playing story modes such as Success and MLB Life modes. As general manager, gamers can trade, sign free agents, coordinate practice schedules, purchase new equipment, call up and send down players from the Minor Leagues; along with other management strategies to bring in fans, win play-off games, and eventually earn the title of World Series champion. In Success mode, fans can participate in a story-based career of rising players in the Double-A Minor League system trying to improve their baseball skills and make an impression on baseball scouts while also having to balance various situations in their personal lives. Through a variety of amusing training and game challenges, players who complete Success mode will also be able to take their created player files into MLB Life as well, or also play as either an existing Major League Baseball player in Dream Mode, or start as a rookie in Major League Career mode. While continuing to play in games through the regular baseball season, you will also participate in a number of realistic situations such as signing contracts, purchasing houses and cars, making charitable donations, building up relationships with friends and teammates, picking up hobbies and much more. With easy pick-up-and-play hitting and pitching controls, along with intuitive Wii functionality, other new features in MLB Power Pros 2008 include support of 40-man rosters, change of ball speed, adjustment of defensive shifts, along with a real-time bullpen check functionality for substituting pitchers. MLB Power Pros 2008 will also support the option for importing Miis, Wii-based character