This game is so bad, It made me write a blog.

I am a MVP series player, have been since 2003. This year after playing the college world series, I wanted to play as a real major league team so I had my brother who works at blockbuster rent it for free. I played a good 30 some games and then I realized if I played some more, I'd probably go on a killing spree. it was that frustrating. the retarded part on me was that a month later, I bought the game thinking I could work around the frustrating game design but ten games later I had it enough.............. again. Now I am trying to trade it in.

as for whats wrong with the game. I will start with baserunning. The "classic" baserunning controls are tougher to pull than a Devil May Cry combo. The "new" baserunning controls are even more retarded because they have you "select" the runner with your left analog stick and THEN send him to the appropriate base. It might sound simple to some, but its virtually impossible to control multiple baserunners because they never advance on their own and "selecting" and routing each runner gives you no time to advance the other. the devs are either retards or pot heads for screwing up such an integral part of the game.

Then comes the pitching, also a very important part of a baseball game which is pretty obvious, no? well not for the devs. because in trying to make pitching more "realistic" they fudged it up instead, and boy did they fudge it up good! how you ask? well, they have this meter for every type of pitch in the arsenal, which loses its effectiveness if you throw balls with that certain pitch. sounds pretty intriguing, right? well, they screw that up too. how? well, every time you throw a ball, the meter goes a quarter of a way down. oh and did i mention the pitch almost NEVER ends up where you want it to. yeah, its supposed to be realistic.............. if done right. Give me the control, if I screw up with the pitching meter, by all means let the pitch end up where ever you want, but not when I ace the meter. oh, and the breaking balls will end up being balls 80% of the time, no matter what. oh and they end up on the dirt 50% of the time and 90% of the time, it goes by the catcher. Umpires are way too inconsistent, they will screw up a corner call 60% of the time.

Also forget about pitching with your no.4 and no.5 starter because their "stuff' and thier stamina is "supposed" to be really low. so they will only last you 4 innings 90% of the time and the rest of the time they will only go 3.

the feilding is ok, but diving for balls is done very poorly. you can only press down to dive, you cant press left or right, but down. does that make sense to you?

hitting is ok, but boring. Also, the guess a pitch or locating meter absolutely kills the online play since all people do is guess location and pitch before every single pitch, and just like that your pitch is given away. wow, that is realistic, only if you dont know jach sh$t about baseball. The devs need to get fired. I want my f***king money back!!!!

I would like to mention the good things now, there are some.
graphics while not mind blowing do the job, great ballpark models. awesome crowd. a lot of modes to keep you busy. great commentary. slick menus. a lot of stats. but see, most of these things are superficial and since the gameplay is unplayable, you cant really enjoy these things.

P.S. each game takes 45-50 minutes to complete. by comparison, MVP 05 games took 25-30 minutes.