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MVP
Baseball 2003 (EA Sports)
MVP Baseball is EA Sports’ newest baseball game. They shelved the Triple Play series because it really started to suck and no one was buying it anymore. MVP is an entirely new series for EA and they treated it as such. They have revamped the pitcher/batter interface, included a great in-depth franchise mode, and just made a good first year game in general. The new p/b interface is quite cool as it now takes skill for each pitch of every game. It involves selecting the pitch and holding the button until it reaches the beginning of the red in the pitching meter and then pressing the button again as close as possible in the middle of the green on the meter. Batting is more timing based, yada yada yada. That’s enough information of the game, but I need to complain about some of the rookie mistakes by EA. My biggest complaint is that players in the outfield will stop in the middle of the circle where the ball is about to land and if they aren’t facing forward, the ball will drop and the player will pick it up on the one bouncer or dive to get it and miss and it results in a base hit. Also, on what seems to be a routine base hit, the ball will roll and your fielders will get confused and won’t want to touch the ball and it will roll to the wall and the base runner will get a double out of it. Another complaint I hear from other people who play the game is that the computer never swings at anything outside the strike zone. This one does not affect me as much because I almost never pitch outside the zone during games vs. the computer. That’s enough about that but I give the game 7/10
Amplitude
Ah,
Amplitude. My only experience with the
series before Amplitude was with the demo of FreQuency. It only included 4 of the games 25 or so
songs, but it was very fun. The
gameplay is playing the beats of different tracks (drums, guitar, bass, etc.)
of the song. You have to keep up with
the beats and move to the other tracks as quickly as possible and keep going
without missing a beat. The game is
very fun throughout, even when you are getting your ass kicked at about the end
of the normally difficulty. It gets insanely difficult, but still fun, no
matter how frustrated you get. 9/10
This
is the first game I’ve purchased for the XBOX since I got the XBOX Live starter
kit and the 2nd game I’ve got to actually play online (the other is
Unreal Championship). Mechassault is
damn fun. I did not pay a whole lot of
attention to the story of this game, but it appears that you are part of a
major governing body and you are sent in with a few people on a ship to
investigate something or other on a planet.
When you arrive, you are met with resistance from some anarchy group on
the planet that has run wild on inhabitants of the planet. You are sent in to investigate on a mech
(surprise surprise) and proceed to go on a recon mission to figure out what is
going on. As you proceed through the
many levels (20 some of them) you figure out just how messed up the anarchy
group is and you eventually earn new mechs to kick their mechs’ metal Asses. Just with that stuff, the game is excellent,
but there’s more. It has full XBOX Live
support so you can destroy cities with up to 7 other people in a wide range of
your standard online games including your standard deathmatches, a game where
there is one big mech and the rest are smaller mechs trying to take the “giant”
out with the person who destroys the giant becoming the giant, and capture the
flag (it has to be downloaded off of XBOX Live though). Also on XBOX Live are multiple mechs and
stages to be downloaded for multiplayer play.
I cannot think of a better game to play online for XBOX Live until Halo
2 comes out in 2004. 9/10
