me too, Zman,,,me too

Last years MLB: The Show was the best baseball game I ever played. I was hoping this would be a kick in the ass for 2k, but I guess it hasn't been a hard enought kick. I think the MLB license is up soon, and hopefully EA will take this demon off the hands of 2k. Before Mlb: the show last year, MVP '05 was my favorite baseball game. I woiuld love to see an MVP for the current generation. One more thing that is too bad. The MLB license is only exclusive to 3rd party development, which means, Xbox could have published their own baseball game. If you remeber a few years back, Microsoft purchased 3DO. 3DO made the High Heat baseball games. The games with Curt Schilling on the cover. The games played great, but the presentation sucked. Shame on you Microsoft for not harvesting the old High Heat baseball engine and giving Xbox owners their own baseball experience to brag about (Inside Drive baseball or whatever that was doesn't count). Now were stuck with this crap. I'm pissed I got rid of my PS3 now.

oh no! deliverence!!!!! I feel a knockin at my back door

This Re-Review is coming in a little late. About a year late. Anyways! Install the game to your hardrive now, and load times are almost gone. I also did this with Blue Dragon, and it had the same effect. It may be the most noticeable load time reduction of any game since being given the ability to install games to the hard drive. The longest load time I have had to wait for was like 4 sec. tops. On to my next pointer. There are times in this game, that you will have to power level your team like a motha (bleeper). Unfortunately, your first go at this will be very early in the game, and that kind of stinks, because you never really get going in the story when this happens so it kind of puts the brakes on. There is a point where you will be on cruise control for awhile and then it happens again. Your at level 50 but need to be at 55 at least to beat a certain mini boss. Kiss 3-4 hours goodbye. The only other gripe, is that experience points come in small doses and the tougher enemies don't always translate into more experience, so if your like me, you will take the easy road and fight the same weakling over and over again until it's level time. I will say this. Early on, each level makes dramatic differences in the strength of your attacks. Sometimes all it takes is one level and you can inch past an end boss. The more I played the more I realized how intentional this sort of system is. I can understand why people will be turned off by this title. Think gears of war + FF = Lost Odyssey. You can feel the influences of both Microsoft and the Former FF creator here. It's not perfect, but it's still pays the ultimate homage to old school RPG's. I love it, and give it 8.5 out of 10

I like the quick "Classic Ass" clip