The biggest problem with the Show is a lack of innovation imo. I haven't even played the game (other than the demo) but having played the previous four versions I think I can make some pretty safe comparisions to MLB 2K10. The Show is much more polished, has much better animations and is a much better simulation of baseball. MLB 2K10 is a more arcade version with a ton of issues but is an absolute blast to play.
For someone who has played a lot of the Show the series has gotten old. I don't like meter pitching and classic gives great results but I'm now bored with it. Analog pitching is fantastic. The patch made it harder to hit your spots and while I'd like to have some sliders to tweak this aspect I definitely think the Show needs to steal this mechanic for next year.
I'm a huge proponent of camera angles in video games. Football, baseball, basketball, whatever. I'm OCD about options in this department. The Show fails miserably in the batting and pitching departments here. You can create every angle for all 30 stadiums in MLB 2K10 (
http://kotaku.com/5519035/working-th...k-more-like-tv) but the Show basically gives you only one offset BTP view. That's terrible. I do prefer the default batting camera in MLB 2K10 over the Show's. C'mon SCEA! It shouldn't be hard to let us adjust the angle and zooms for those cameras.
I couldn't agree more about fielding. MLB 2K10 is terrible. It's an auto fielding game with no camera options and no freaking errors! I don't even have to say more. The slider for fielding errors in the Show is still broken imo. For manual fielders the slider affects the player's range and not the amount of bobbles. It does affect the number of bobbles for the cpu. But I guess I'm getting picky since it's still light years better than 2K10. 2K10 does have some nice double play breakups.
The commentary is great in 2K10. I think the Show could use an overhaul here - all of them should be replaced by a fresh crew.
Lastly, a big reason I can't go back to the Show is that the pitch speed is just too fast. I'm always having to turn down the pitch speed slider to 0 to get a chance at determining balls and strikes. The slider just doesn't work very well and often leaves me frustrated. The pitch speed for 2K10 is very adjustable and much better for my reflexes.
I would think someone who hasn't played either game would play both games and 95% of the time pick the Show. But for me the Show has grown stale and despite all the issues with MLB 2K10, it's a fun game. I don't think I'll get the replayability out of this game (I played 150 games of the Show 09, very doubtful to do that with MLB 2K10) but it's still easily my baseball game for this year.
A message to SCEA: your game does so many things right but you need to add some things to take another step forward. Add analog controls, more pitching/batting views and PLEASE give the pitch speed slider more weight so some of us older guys can be less frustrated. You will win some of us back. I'm completely open to buying either game next year but it will only be one game.
05-25-2010, 12:30 PM
