Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[JoeRyan33]

Anyone getting any screenshots?

[dlasp66]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blitzburgh

I don't know about you guys but this is AWESOME! I love the ball physics when pitching and hitting. It is plays super smooth on my 50" Samsung Plasma. It looks great! Yes, there are little robotic animations here and there but over all it plays a really fun game of baseball. It just feels like a real broadcast. I wish i could remove the strike zone indicator when piching because from this view i can't see what pitch my cather wants me to throw. I like to keep the pitch indicators off the screen unless i need them. Anyways back to another game before work. Great Job VC!

lol wait until the final build once there will be replays and a nifty postgame show, then ull feel like ur watching espn on that 50'' samsung (i wish i had an hdtv so bad)

[thornie]

Just my luck, I wake up early to download and play the demo before work and it's "temporarily unavailable". WTF.

[dlasp66]

lol shoulda stayed up like the rest of us hahaha, im sorry to hear this

[SoxFan01605]

Quote: Originally Posted by dlasp66

As far as you saying that its easy to strike out hitters, well the starting pitchers are cole hamels and scott kazmir who both have wicked stuff and are notorius strikeout pitchers; as for the HRs, ur gonna hafto teach me how to hit cuz i only had 1 in 3 games lol (i probably suck at hitting with the swing stick as i prefer classic hitting)

True, but remember, these are also two of the better lineups out there also. I think it's mostly attributed to the aggressiveness of the AI that we've all noticed in the videos. It's not horrible or anything (as I said, some patience later in the count, but it is noticeable and boy, do they LOVE to chase the slider...lol.

I do have a bit more hope for the pitching as the 2K8 option is still there (hopefully with the same improved stick responsiveness).

The hitting is just too easy to me (but I got pretty familiar with it over the last couple years too) at default.

We'll see. Tough to gauge performance off of 3-inning samples, so you've gotta take some of this stuff with a grain of salt.

[JBucc]

Did they take it down or something?

edit: Nevermind. You have to select all downloads when you get too MLB 2k9's page.

[dlasp66]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoxFan01605

True, but remember, these are also two of the better lineups out there also. I think it's mostly attributed to the aggressiveness of the AI that we've all noticed in the videos. It's not horrible or anything (as I said, some patience later in the count, but it is noticeable and boy, do they LOVE to chase the slider...lol. I do have a bit more hope for the pitching as the 2K8 option is still there (hopefully with the same improved stick responsiveness). The hitting is just too easy to me (but I got pretty familiar with it over the last couple years too) at default. We'll see. Tough to gauge performance off of 3-inning samples, so you've gotta take some of this stuff with a grain of salt.

lol they LOVE chasing the slider lol

[SoxFan01605]

Another thing. Not sure if I'm liking the CPU pickoffs. They switch to a view of them looking at your runner well before they decide to throw. I actually got back by baby-stepping back to the bag (repeatedly pressing R trigger) after taking a HUGE lead...lol. I hope that's fixed...could end up being a cheap exploit. Kinda makes things disjointed.