MLB 2K11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (PS3/360)

[Raskal]

Just played a game of the demo on PS3.

+Stadium looks great
-Player faces look bad
+Pitching is great as always
-No Commentary in the demo? One of the best parts about the series is completely left out of the demo, at least on PS3.
+Love the Hitting to Fielding Camera transition when batting.
-Blurry stadium when batting.

[topgundie]

I just hit a walk-off home run with Freddy Sanchez. Two things happend, 1st thing was all the player icons on base said "H" which kinda gave away that it was a homer and secondly players from the dugout came and huddled around the plate to celebrate!!!

[BSUFAN]

Quote: Originally Posted by acreyman

One more quick observation........when I hit a fly ball I sometimes have a hard time seeing the ball, i loose sight of it in the sky. I got a top of the line TV so it aint that, just tough to track the ball in flight sometimes is all. Enjoying the demo

Looking forward to next week, I appreciate all the feedback positive and negative even though its a demo, I am thinking they finally are on the right track here !!!

[emath]

Quote: Originally Posted by Redemption

really? I must say, your "review" of the demo lost me right there. Considering 2k has widely been praised as having the best pitching experience (outside of the pinpoint accuracy issues, which will have a slider to correct this year) in any baseball game. What exactly is ludicrous about it?

Since I have not had a chance to D/l the PS3 demo yet, I can only assume the pitching system is the same as last year. If this is the case, then I have to agree with him. It is just such a random system. There is no real baseball "feel" to the motions you are going through to throw the pitches.

It's like they sat in their meetings last year and someone said, "Hey, lets use the sticks this year. Lets just give each pitch a random movement with the stick, and if you do it just right, you will always throw it to the spot you want. If you don't move it just right, it'll go somewhere else."

Someone else pipes up and says, "But wont it be too easy to throw strikes? Plus, that random motion doesn't give you any real baseball feeling."

Then another guy responds, "Well, at least we'll have analog controls, and The Show wont. That'll be our selling point.... 'Hey guys, so what if we have a ton of bugs, at least we have analog controls'..."

I mean, The Shows new pitching controls are kinda lame too, but at least they have a baseball feel to them. Kinda of a Rock n Fire motion.

[Ltrain44]

Did anyone else notice this?

During certain match up's while you are batting sometimes it will say "Bad matchup against the pitcher" i think it says. That is confusing because looking at the batter ratings it actually should be "Good matchup against the pitcher". Can someone explain why they used "bad" matchup when its actually a good matchup for the batter vs the pitcher?

Also, I am hoping we can change the view after the ball is put into play on offense. I just don't dig it. You lose the ball in the air because the camera does not look up high enough. In real life the batter can just move his eyes up or his head and track the ball. I get the idea of why they did this, to get a more batters perspective of things. I think if it actually panned up when there is a fly ball I would like this a lot more. Hopefully we can change this in the retail version.

[The Bimmer]

Quote: Originally Posted by loganmorrison1

That doesn't make sense

imagine, my bad

[loganmorrison1]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Bimmer

imagine, my bad

Gotcha, now I see what you're saying

[The Bimmer]

Quote: Originally Posted by loganmorrison1

Gotcha, now I see what you're saying

That doesnt make sense!