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Got it, played it, liked it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game 10 days ago, and STILL stuck on it. The graphics will make your eye glad, and the music and commemtaries will make your ears glad. This is one perfect game except for some gameplay glitches. But who cares? The substance is best. Better than MVP, and MLB (Sony). MLB 2k5 is the way to go. Buy MLB 2K5

Best baseball game I've ever played

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I actually rate this 4.5 stars, but there's no option for that. Anyway, this is the only b-ball game I've ever kept for a moderate period of time. I had MVP 2004 and the All-Star Baseball games in the past, they were fun for a short while, then I totally lost interest for various reasons. This game by far has the best pitching/batting interface i've ever seen. I don't understand why some people complain how tough the pitching aspect is, I play on All-star difficulty and find it extremely easy (as long as you good aim). The graphics are great, the commentary is superb, the defense is a bit simple (ground balls to an infielder is an automatic out 99.9% of the time), and tons of unlockables. This game boasts the best Home run Derby in my opinion too. The one negative I have is for simple things. The Marlins cathcer, Paul Lo Duca, well on the back of his jersey, his name is spelled wrong. I've seen it as LOWDUCA and even today it was spelled LORDUCA!?!?!?! And i'm doing a season with the Mets and i'm 7-1, but at the start of today's game, Joe Morgan said I've lost 7 of my last 10 games!?!?!? Also, when a fly ball is hit to your outfielder, occasionally, he'll just plain drop it. Because I haven't played MVP 2005 or MLB 2006, I can't comment on those, but for my money (19.99 new), MLB 2K5 delivers. GO METS!

Major League Baseball 2K5

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First, I have to say that this game is very fun. The mechanics are great, and the pitching is flawless. I love the ESPN K-Zone pitching system. This was a great idea on the part of 2K sports. I also love the batting mechanics. I almost hit some homeruns. This is where the game begins to lack.

First off, they say you can climb the wall to catch low homeruns, and sometimes you can. Most of the time though, your player runs up to the wall, presses against it, and watches as a catchable homerun flies over his head. Very close to his head. You think as you finally step up to bat, "Ah, now I get to to stomp all over them," but in truth, they catch everything. Is there a homerun twenty feet in the air? No matter! The opposing team just lifts up their gloves as the ball magnetically flies into their mit.

All in all, this game is pretty even. It isn't bad. It isn't good. Just good old fashioned mediocre baseball.

ESPN: Need I say more!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: February 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Now I know it is hard to review something that has not come out, but with what I have seen so far I Like!!! Big Time !!!! ESPN and Sega have figured out a way to take the baseball game and make it an artform. From power pitching to complete base running control ESPN looks to take last years model and completely blow it away. The screenshots I have seen are beautiful, and the gameplay videos are awesome. No crazy stuff like the EA Game has been doing for the last 2 years. ESPN makes the gameplay simple and realistic to make you keep coming back for more. All the rivalries are there. What better way to start off a season than in Yankee Stadium as the Boston Red Sox. Curt Schilling will have his way with the the big unit Randy Johnson. Sorry, yankee fans but Schilling is better!!!! And once again see Boston make A-Rod look like a fool (no bitch slaps at the ball, please Nim-Rod). But you can also play as the New York Mets, whose revamped lineup and pitching staff could over power Smoltzy and the rest of the braves. But I digress.

The best thing about ESPN Baseball 2K5 is that there are no steroids involved, and no Jose Canseco. It is the baseball game of the year in my book, and for $20.00, half the cost of that other baseball game.

Not as good as MVP but you'll have to get used to it

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This games is miles BEHIND MVP 2005, but we'll have to get used to it because now 2k5 has the rights to MLB and MVP has given them up (or something like that, no more MVP MLB games will be made). When it was first released you would have had a reason to buy it (it was $30 cheaper) but now MVP and 2k5 are the same price meaning, skip this game and get MVP, but if you really care to know about this game I'll tell you (oh what a treat...)

First pitching,
The pitching in this game I find to be just as good, if not a little better than MVP's. You have many choices as how to pitch (Classic, Effot, K-Zone, K-Zone 2, and Meter) but the default (K-Zone 2) is the best. It's basically two dots moving and you have to allign them correctly. One controls the horizontal accuracy, the other vertical. The speed of the 2 dots changes according to the pitcher, confidence (a system which according to the players preformance changes how good they do things a small feature it makes their preformance go up or down just a little), and if they're in a pressure situation. On the higher diffuclty's a small mistake and the CPU will get a base hit and bigger mistakes 2Bs and HRs. The biggest mistakes result in a Slam Zone, which involves the pitcher and batter mashing the A button. If the batter gets the meter high enough up it will result in a HR, 2B, or even 3B. It's fun for a little bit but gets annoying, luckily it can be turned off

Batting,
Batting is a feature which MVP has a heads up on. In 2k6 you guess where the pitcher will throw it, a dead on guess or a bad pitch results in a Slam Zone (or increased chance of HR if Slame Zone is turned off). The closer you guess to the pitch the higher the chance of a base hit. But you can easily hit most pitchs and even on higher diffuclty's hitting is extremely easy. Also batting stances, swings, and animations can be really screwed up (the batter stands in the box ready to swing for like 5 seconds after the strike out sometimes whats that??)

Fielding,
This is were the game REALLY lacks. Animations (especially in the outfield) can just be downright funny. You can seemingly catch things not even Andruw Jones could get to, with someone like Jay Gibbons, and along with that you can easily drop a pop fly because jugding the ball's trajectory can be nearly impossible sometimes. Catching the ball and making dives feels, and looks strange and unnatural, while in MVP it is excellent. Throwing can be weird to as you can throw out runners from the warning track, AS THEY'RE GOING TO FIRST!!! What the hell!!!

Baserunning,
They've added a great feature, Base Burner were you control the runner and let the CPU control the batter (although you can chose to bunt, take every pitch, swing at every pitch, or be selective). You can get your lead, but the pitcher can pick you off if you go too far. And you can give the runner a speed boost by taping their base. When you are running at anytime you can give your runner a boost which is nice. Running is fine and the Base Burner is real nice

Presentation,
This is where the game really shines. The commentary by Joe Morgan (however annoying he is) and Jon Miller is great and the crowd is actually drawn like the players in 3D! Having the crowd yell taunts at batters is great, and fans yelling 'O Yeah' at Camden Yards after a HR; great! You can customize soundtracks for players, and stadiums (set songs for HR and base hits etc.) It dose all the little things that MVP overlooked.

Overall,
Hopefully 2k5 can make improvments in fielding in batting for next year but right now I'd still take MVP NCAA Baseball 2006 over 2k6 and its a COLLEGE baseball game! Its the gameplay that makes a baseball game great, not presentation (although MVP's certainly isn't bad). If 2k6 can combine their great presentation and add gameplay as good as MVP's it would make it the best baseball game ever, period.

Graphics are awesome, game sux

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is the follow up to one of the best selling baseball games of 2004. its advertised well, but thats it. you get the game hoping to see all the previous years' errors fixed plus some new features. it has some of the greatest graphics i have seen in my life, but the gameplay lets u down. it is very hard and complicated, plus there are some really strange errors like you dive and the ball just sort of magically appears in your glove, evn if you werent going to catch it. trust me, rent it if u want, but buy MVP baseball 2005, its much better!

shut up about mvp

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

SHUT UP ABOUT STUPID MVP, MVP STINKS AND ITS THE WORST BASEBALL GAME OUT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It breaks the heart to write this review...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I find the 2K5 sports games the hands down best sports simulation games out there. So naturally, MLB 2K5 was a much anticapated title for me. Unfortunately, I have been disappointed by the latest installment from 2Ksports. Graphically, the game is stunning, uniforms, player models and stadiums look great. But the lack of depth in the franchise and owner modes not to mention the choppy game play make this year's game less than stellar. If you can get past the lack of fluidity in the fielding and batting, you will thoroughly enjoy the K-Zone pitching. It is far and away the best idea for pitching simulation yet. You cannot beat the 19.99 price, and all things considered, for the price it is a good game. But we have come to expect a lot more from 2Ksports this year for the small price tag. I am not going to say run out and buy MVP by EAsports, because I have not played it. But overall, a very disappointing installment of the 2K baseball series. Now that they are the sole possesors of the MLB license, hopefully this is not a forshadow of things to come.

would be great if...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has the better gameplay between this an MVP, but they need to fix the glitches. Just having this for a day, I have already noticed in Franchise mode closing pitchers do not get recorded saves. This gets really REALLY annoying. Anyone else notice this? If the glitches are fixed with a patch like in the past this game will be the best.

bug-ridden piece of crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the game play is good and the game itself is just beautiful to look at, but all of this is will quickly be forgotten when the game locks up for 2 minutes after every other play. take your money elsewhere

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