Comments on: MLB 08 THE SHOW Weekly Update: My MLB Music + Demo Details

By: MrLopes

MrLopes — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:28:39 +0000

Got my order in yesterday and the game is great, the new concept for road 2 the show is awesome. The only thing that i would have liked to see is the possibilty to create/load a picture for your career player.

By: ajaaxx

ajaaxx — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:14:01 +0000

Just got my game! The juke box is awesome after
games it blasts songs from your jukebox in the stadium speakers… Nice touch.

By: MetsFan21

MetsFan21 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:52:16 +0000

The game looks great! I wish they would of done a bit more though. Like in MLB 2K7, the manager could argue, but it can’t be done in this game. Also, there isn’t anyone in the bullpen. And what’s up with the guess pitch? Overall it’s a good game and a must buy.

P.S. Can you edit players walk-up songs? And could you play in Citi Field in your second year of franchise? Please leave a comment below written out to me.

By: jlanzago

jlanzago — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:28:33 +0000

I would like to ask if the full game will have collission detector, because on the demo it is weird that the players just pass-through other players as if they were ghosts (PS3 version).

Also, I thought that for 2008 there would be umpires and coaches on the PSP version but sadly there are not. This is important for realism, at least show them!!!! Feels that something’s missing when playing the game.

By: mp3knol@gmail.com

mp3knol@gmail.com — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:02:03 +0000

I throught the 11 CD’s worth of Music I had on my PS3 would go to waste.
http://mp3knol.com

By: aggiechase37

aggiechase37 — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:53:24 +0000

I want to know about the online. 07’s online was the worst joke I have ever seen. I don’t think I ever finished a game without this “traffic delay” that would pretty much freeze the whole game. If online is FUNCTIONAL, I will buy this game. If not, I’ll spend my money elsewhere.

By: buggs1a

buggs1a — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:14:07 +0000

I’ve played baseball video games for many years. I forgot about the Veteran, Rookie etc lol. I totally forgot.

What I was saying are just some things I don’t like. I love the game though, but didn’t like the beach ball, don’t like how the pitched ball is white with no stitches and the guess pitch was not working correctly compared to 07 showing location of correctly guessed pitch. Those are the only things I didn’t like.

The graphics are very very very nice, but not awesome to me. I say awesome to something like CGI animated movies graphics which no game currently is, so graphics aren’t awesome. I love the graphics though.

I liked how the crowd went for foul balls sometimes and how the ball doesn’t just disappear into the crowd anymore when hit foul etc. In 07 it is so stupid to hit home runs and the ball just goes through everything. that aint right. it should bounce off stuff in the stands or be caught by a fan. 08 improves this a bit i think from what i saw.

i know I’ll love the game!

By: bulbous_shot

bulbous_shot — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:01:44 +0000

Does the sound seem to be in mono for the PS3 demo for anyone else? The graphics and gameplay are fine, but the audio just sounds awful when I play the demo. My internet connection went down at about 60% downloaded, but the download picked right back up after I reset my router. That couldn’t have caused an error in the demo during the download, could it have?

By: Scarecrow

Scarecrow — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:09:04 +0000

@buggs1a
Is this your first baseball game ever? You know you can turn the difficulty to ROOKIE, right?

I didn’t have trouble striking out the opposite team. Know where your pitches are going and don’t become predictable, that’s the key.

I completely disagree with your statements, this demo blew me away, from the humongous stadium design, to the crowd, to little elements like the crowd getting excited when my team has a chance at getting some runs, etc.

Batting has never felt so much fun, the cpu can actually strike me out! This is the first time where I actually feel challenged by the cpu when it comes to pitching, I mean and it’s not unfair pitching, the cpu will make you swing at bad pitches lol and they won’t give in unless you show them you can be patient :D

The game is overall fun, the players move so realistically in the field, I mean there are plays which always looked weird in other games, but you here the animations are perfect.

And I love the pitching, you really feel like you’re pitching with Josh Beckett.

Awesome stuff! Will buy for sure!

By: buggs1a

buggs1a — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:07:32 +0000

Boy I sure hope the retail game is better then the Demo. The demo was not retail quality. Guess pitch doesn’t work and no stitches on the baseball when pitched. Ball is jerky as heck when hit foul. FAR FAR WAAAAAY too many fouls by the cpu when it has 2 strikes on it even when lowering the foul slider and cpu contact slider all thew way. Pitching control sucks same as MLB07 the show. You throw a fastball down the middle and it ends up a ball or same for a curve etc. Pathetic. That’s one thing I HATE from 07 the show. The beachball sucks in the crowd. That doesn’t happen in real life hardly ever. I’ve never seen it and have heard about it only a couple times in all the years I watch baseball. Replays were somewhat jerky, the ball was and never was in the 07 the show game. Sound was a bit off in the replays compared to 07 the show. Graphics are better over 07, but not amazing. Commentary still freaking sucks. WAY too repetitive and WAY to many comments from 07 which were extremely repetitive like every game or many times in the same game stuff is said. The pitched ball seems faster even at the lowest slider setting compared to 07. This be bad. Change ups don’t sink like in 07 they do, but not sure if that’s normal or not. 07 change ups seemed to sink more then i thought changes should though. i don’t like how in 08 the show the icon for pitches does not have the revolving circle around the pitch icon like in 07 between each pitch. 08 will be awesome I’m sure though.