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Binding: Video Game Brand: Midway EAN: 0031719268580 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Item Dimensions: Label: MIDWAY SPORTS Manufacturer: MIDWAY SPORTS MPN: 268580 Platform: PlayStation2 Publisher: MIDWAY SPORTS Studio: MIDWAY SPORTS Accessories: Editorial Review: Product Description: MLB SlugFest 2003 uses advanced motion capture technology to clearly detail each player's facial expressions and reactions. The animations are so precise, gamers can view players on the field chewing gum, talking to one another and cheering for their teammates. While at the plate, gamers can dig in and unleash a mammoth blast clear out of the park. To add to the authentic baseball delivered in MLB SlugFest 2003, five-time MLB All-Star Alex Rodriguez will appear on the package cover and other advertising materials for the game. Entering his seventh full Major League Baseball season, the Texas Rangers shortstop also consulted with the development team on the game. Also stepping up to the plate is Roadrunner Records' recording act Dry Kill Logic, which recorded a hard-rockin', new millenium version of 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game' to accompany the game's aggressive attitude and extreme-style play. Amazon.com Review: Who needs realism? While all the other guys slave away every year to make their sports games as realistic as possible, Midway has gleefully chosen to make the wildest, most violent, and arguably most fun sports games you can buy. Topselling games like NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz, and NBA Jam are annual tweaks on the nose of sports gaming, yet Midway has kept the games close enough to the real sports they model to justify the expense of real player and team licenses. MLB SlugFest is no exception. It's a Three Stooges-style romp into Major League Baseball, and it's crazy fun. Imagine our National Pastime with Bugs Bunny-style pitching, runners who think nothing about clocking the First Basemen to extend their hit into a double, and hot players who burst into flame when they're on a roll. If a pitch hits the batter he either charges the mound like the Hulk on speed, or he cries and crawls to take his base. Everything is outrageous and exaggerated, yet beyond the cartoon antics is a real game where skill with pitching and batting can carry you to victory. All of the major league's players, stadiums, teams, and logos are in the game, letting you really put the smack down on your least favorite team or force a perennial loser to play like brutes. A home run derby mode lets you practice hitting the long ball. One highlight is the commentary, which is hilarious. It consists of one smart guy calling the plays, setting up a gravel voiced idiot for some off the wall comment. Whether it's speculating how many candles you'd have to melt to make a wax Babe Ruth, or complaining about the taste of his third Styrofoam cup, the commentary is fresh, funny, and it takes quite a while before it gets old. Solid baseball gameplay and strategy--amped up and turned all the way to "11"--is what MLB SlugFest offers players. It's a great way to spend a nice spring day; mix in a little violence and flaming baseballs with your peanuts and Crackerjack.--Andrew S. Bub Pros:
Amazon.com Product Description: MLB SlugFest 20-03 offers exaggerated, supercharged baseball action. Featuring real Major League Baseball players, teams, and stadiums, the game puts the emphasis on adrenaline and over-the-top plays. Enormous muscle-bound players take the field and perform incredible defensive plays, including acrobatic diving catches and turbo-powered throws. While at the plate, gamers can dig in and unleash mammoth blasts clear out of the park. The animations are detailed to the point where you can view players on the field chewing gum, talking to one another, and cheering for their teammates. The game sets the tone with an original baseball anthem, "Riot at the Bat Rack," performed by the heavy metal group Dry Kill Logic. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not BadMLB Slugfest is a good game. It makes baseball more fun by adding violence, circus catches, blazing speeds and throws and mile long home runs! You are probably wondering why I didn't give it 5 stars then. Well while it comes through in some areas it fails to come through in others and the most important areas are the ones it failed to come through in. First fielding when a pop fly is hit the fielder isn't selected you have to do that which can become very confusing and you have to be it the right ... Read More Rating:  - Well what can I sayOk I write this review to be helpful to people. I LOVE baseball but when I got this game I was pretty dissapointed. I wanted to beat people up and all that great stuff, but when i got the game I found out that it wasnt all that brutal. Not only that it is WAY TO EASY. Also its not all that oriented with baseball, for example no free angents, no create a player, no tradeing, no farm system all you can do is e a team and play a season and thats it. I got the game then about two months later i brought ... Read More Rating:  - This game is fun but how many players are on a real team?This game is a real fun with great graphics. I have not seen such great detail on most of the players before. Even the stadiums are more realistic than in other games. The only thing I am dissapointed about in this game is that there is a limited number of players. The starting pitcher is the same for every game and you are only given two other players for pitching relief and they are also always the same two people. Also there is no pinch hitters or pinch runners which leaves out some of your ... Read More Rating: - Slugfest: THE BEST GAME EVERSlugfest breaks the player out of the painstakingly boring John Madden type commentary. Tim Kitzrow and "Jimmy Shorts" will crack any man women or child up with their hilarious, outragous, and witty commontary. Other slugfest features include great grafics, and only availible in slugfest: the ablility to punch players on base and the get in a fight with the pitcher in some sinarios if the pitcher hits the batter. Slugfest was recently ranked the third best game on the market. Plus, one of the games ... Read More Rating: - Great Game, not as intense as i thoughtwhen i got this game, i couldnt wait to beat on people, then i started to play. it is lots of fun, but not with a lot of midway twist. sure, you can punch people on the bases, but thats it. no other way to entertain you when you want to hurt people. get blitz or hitz instead. still a great game though :) |
