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Chris' MLB 2K10 Review

Posted on March 2, 2010 at 06:43 PM.

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Starting with the baseball games, I am going to review every major release on my blog in a short form fashion with a 1-5 star rating scale for each game. These reviews will be meant to supplement our already off-the-charts awesome reviews we publish with each game. With that said, expect our man Caley Roark to have his thoughts on MLB 2K10 and the official OS Score by the end of the week! Also, I skimped on some gameplay details simply because I think my first impressions still cover a lot of my thoughts on that, check them out here. Now onto the review:

MLB 2K9 was bad. Atrociously bad. It was a half star to a one star on my ratings scale.

MLB 2K10 on the other hand, is everything MLB 2K9 wasn't. It is relatively bug free, it plays decent and while there are nagging issues which a patch will have to take care of, the game is by and large respectable and a huge improvement over last year's title.

The first thing you notice when you hop into MLB 2K10 is that it does everything a lot better than last year. The execution and the flow of the game, much less the looks, are much better than last year's game. The AI is smarter, the game plays more like baseball, and I totally dig the pitching/hitting system.

However, a contender with the perennial heavyweight champion MLB: The Show this game is not. While it has moments where it seems it could be a contender, there are numerous problems which keep the game from really reaching it's potential. The outfielders all have arms which are far too strong and too accurate, you can still hit relatively easy on the default settings -- sliders do help though, and there are numerous moments when you realize the game just lacks a nice coat of polish.

The two main modes of play I have gotten to check out, Franchise and My Player are both solid. I didn't have enough time to get down and dirty with each, but both are solid modes. Franchise produced realistic and believable stats when I simmed through a season and My Player seems like it's a viable option to RTTS. Both will have nagging problems discovered which will bug baseball fans I'm sure. But with Franchise mode, the improvements made over last year's mode are very noticeable.

In the end, what MLB 2K10 does have going for it is exactly what the developers said it would, it's simply a different and interesting take on baseball compared to The Show. And while I wouldn't recommend a PS3 owner even consider MLB 2K10, baseball fans stuck with just a 360 will find the game is now respectable and worthy of at least a look. MLB 2K10 signals a dramatic turnaround in the franchise. If this is the start of a new trend, next year could be a banner year for baseball gaming.

Chris' MLB 2K10 Rating:

Comments

# 16 blackscorpion11 @ Mar 3

Doesn't sould like he spent alot of time on this game, also the references to MLB THE SHOW are getting old.. Judge this game on it's own merits..

# 17 sooner111 @ Mar 4

Found a bug. I played an exhibition between the Giants and Dodgers and when it profiled the Giant's Manager, he had a Giants cap and an Indians warmup jacket with the SF on the side sleeves of the jacket. Also when it showed instant replays and the teams logo zooms in and out real quick before the replay, the indians logo showed up. Definitely better than 2k9 but I hope I don't find too many more bugs since I just started my franchise yesterday.

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