Major League Baseball 2K8 (Playstation 3, 2008)

I had 2k7 last year and have 2k8 for this year, and I must say the game has improved but not a huge jump over last year.

Franchise mode is fun-lots of Minor League Players and its fun to build your team into a great one.

Pitching is tougher and takes a little playing to get down, but its more fun to pitch, than to hurry up so you can bat again. Fast balls and Changeup are easy to learn, it may take you a bit to learn breaking balls and sliders. For the most part the mechanics are accurate and the player does what you want them to do. Throwing is also controlled by the R Stick and is more like throwing in the Majors.

The Flaws---
Sometime your game will freeze, Save often in franchise mode
The fonts are too small on stats and menus...unless you have a huge TV
The graphics are Good at best. The crowd is not as detailed as 2k8 Basketball.
The annoucers/commentary is about the same as last year.
There is lots of talk about "the frame rate" of the game not being too good. (The camera may shutter a bit when throwing from third to first-or between batters) If you play a lot of games you'll probably notice this and it may bother you. If you don't play games too much, this is not an issue-you probably won't even notice.

Even with the flaws, if you like baseball you're probably going to enjoy playing the game. If you like playing on-line you may want to make sure the online is smooth and glitch free before you buy.

Overall Grade: B

If your a casual gamer, I think you will be able to look past the flaws in the game and gets lots of replay value from it. If you play and expect alot from games...you may want to skip this title.