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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months Binding: Video Game Brand: 2K Sports EAN: 0710425373534 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: 2K Games Manufacturer: 2K Games Platform: PlayStation2 Publisher: 2K Games Release Date: March 04, 2008 Sales Rank: 1579 Studio: 2K Games
Product Description: It's 2008 and it's time to hit home runs as 2KG Major League Baseball 2K8 brings you your best season ever. Thrilling features have been added to make this season more exciting. Are you out or in? Joe Morgan is announcing 2K8! Play ball! Team play is more expansive as there are 90 minor-league teams added to the game, including authentic uniforms, many authentic minor-league stadiums, and a few generic ones as well. 2K8 also features a new baseball-card system, in which you can earn players' cards by completing certain tasks. You can then sell duplicate cards for credits to buy new card packs, which consist of 10 cards and may include a stadium or special team. But by far the coolest part of the card system is the online card battles. When you have enough player cards to fulfill the requirements of a full team, you can then combine your cards to create a team and take head-to-head against other gamers' card teams online. An entirely new and unique pitching interface which is unlike anything that's been done before. The main input comes from the right analog stick. The execution involves matching a gesture to throw the desired pitch. This enables a lot more granularity from the input than a digital face-button approach. Revolutionizing your control of the 5 tools in baseball are brand new pitching, fielding and base running controls and completely overhauled batting interface. Featuring a totally unique trading card mode, robust Minor League system, all-new Signature Style animations for 2008, and more! 90 Minor League teams available in both Franchise and Exhibition modes Over 1 MILLION online gamers in the 2K community for head-to-head games
Amazon.com: Major League Baseball 2K8 returns to the diamond. Features:
GM Career Mode - Control up to 4 different franchises simultaneously. Achieve goals set by franchise owners, simulate seasons and attempt to bring home a World Series championship.
Updated Rosters - Capitalize on the past winter's biggest moves with up-to-date rosters and updated Inside Edge data.
Stellar Commentary - The classic duo of Jon Miller and Hall of Famer Joe Morgan return to the booth with insightful and dynamic play-by-play and color commentary.
2K Sports Online Play - Go Head-to-Head and compete in leagues and tournaments against the best players on the planet.
2K Beats - Featuring the Cars, The Cure, Dinosaur Jr, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Kasabian, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Presidents of the USA, and The Cool Kids.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Too many bugs.
I can't believe how many bugs this game has. They shouldn't have released it.
Rating: - Fun but gets old
I bought this game a week ago and it's already getting old. The same thing keeps happening over and over and over again. Unless you want to do gm mode only rent this game.
Rating: - loads of glitches
The previous reviews are right about the instruction booklet giving bogus instructions, but that is just the beginning with this sloppy effort. This game is loaded with lazy mistakes that show just how little effort 2K Sports put into this year's edition. The commentators are wrong about 95% of the time (for example, they will say that a player got thrown out trying for a double in his last at bat even if he struck out, homered, etc.). Sometimes wins and saves are credited to the wrong player. In addition to the booklet giving incorrect info on what the controls do, the game isn't much help with that either (I've played the game for quite a while and still just know the basic controls). Baserunner controls are awful, particularly when you have more than 1 guy on the basepaths at a time.
I had the 2K5 edition (which ironically was only $[...] and was a decent game), and it wasn't even plagued with amateur developer mistakes like this one.
I don't know how this year's version of the other MLB game turned out, but it can't possibly be as bad as this one.
Rating: - Bad
Game is pretty like the last version, the controls are exactly what the other guy said, they are completely wrong in the manual and what they say they are on the game, they say to hit X to swing, i hit a million times and nothing happened, you'd think they would get those little things figured out, but i guess not. I know I wont be buying this game and i would suggest you do the same. There isnt anything good about this game
Rating: - Control Issues
I own this game and enjoy playing it, but I had real problems with it at first. Ask my wife, I would get mad at the game! The controls in the game booklet are not actually what they are in the game. A lot of them are different and that really threw me off and messed me up. I had to spend time playing the game to actually figure out the controls. That was a hassle. The other problem I had is that there is no instructions in the booklet on the features of the game, only the "wrong" controls. So I've had to learn what things are through playing, instead of just being able to read and understand what they are, kind of frustrating and a waste of time! Otherwise the game is great!
- Too many bugs.
- Fun but gets old
- loads of glitches
- Control Issues
