MLB '06: The Show (PlayStation Portable, 2006)

I recently bought this game for 2 reasons. I'm going on a long trip and I haven't played a decent baseball game in a while.

First of all, if you've played baseball on a game system, the most important factors are graphics and control. If the graphics look weird and the animations don't fit the action and timing, it throws off the game. You can't have a person sliding into home, getting tagged out but the umpire says he's safe. The controls are important because if you can't catch fly balls and make cool double plays, the gameplay suffers. In both these factors, this is the slickest baseball game I've played in a long time (AND, it's on a PORTABLE game system).

The deep career mode and season mode will keep you entertained for weeks. Though after a while, it won't be hard hitting .500 with your league's new stolen base and HR king - the 19 year old guy you created. There are some other issues - such as the excruciatingly long load times, but that's a PSP issue more than this game as all PSP games have long load times. Overall though, this is a great game with deep and entertaining career modes. You can even go online and update rosters with PSP's wifi connection. Great Game.