Major League Baseball 2K10

Game Info

Publisher: 2K Sports

Developer: Visual Concepts

Genre(s): Sports, Baseball

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: March 2, 2010

Summary

Work the corners - Based on each pitcher’s mechanics and official scouting reports, Total Control Pitching lets you put the ball exactly where you want it -- provided you keep a close eye on your pitch count. Work the count - With Total Control Hitting you can time your swing to hit for power, put the ball in play or take a defensive cut. Batter's Eye uses a hitter’s real-life eye rating to help you identify Fastballs, Breaking Balls and Off Speed pitches before they get to the plate. The best play like the best - True-to-Life Player Rating System, Signature Style and a new Motion Model ensure every pitch, swing, catch, throw, steal and slide looks and feels like you’re at the ballpark. Become a living legend - With My Player mode you can create a player, choose a team and then play your way into the Hall of Fame. [2K Sports]

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Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 32 User Votes

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Rich M. gave it a9:
As a former PS2 owner I decided when I upgraded to buy xbox 360. However one big part of my decision was my lose of the show.2K9 was pretty lame however this version is near flawless. I pick a team other than my yankees and create players. I love this game now becuase you can change pitching along with thier pitches, and you can raise their speed, movement. The batting is still to strong. In other words I can still hit 350 with every other player. I hate that. Ib my lineup of 9 after 60 games already 7 guys are hitting over.320. I hate that but it happened on the show also. Overall this game is near flawless. I thing that does bother me tho is I have only had 1 error in 60 game.A little unrealistic.

Balance Jones gave it a5:
This is basically a beta game at this juncture (3/23/2010). The online gameplay is pretty good, but there are huge exploits. The stadium/crowd graphics are what you would expect from a company bleeding money.

Keith Y gave it an8:
Pretty good game. Critics are pretty much on point - but since I don't care about features like franchise or my career, I weigh my score based primarily on graphics, gameplay, atmosphere and sound as it regards just playing out a single game. Pitching looks great - the movement seems highly authentic. The analog pitch mechanic is a great improvement over timed button presses. The homerun replays look nice, almost as good as seeing one hit in real life from the stands. Batting is excellent. The fact that a player will put a ball into play based on internal skills and attribute ratings is awesome. I don't have to be perfect with my swing anymore, so the learning curve is really good. Fielding is VERY BORING - get a clue next year and work on it, there's nothing to do but watch. I might change my mind, but after about 5 complete games, nothing I saw on the fielding aspect impressed me - but the lack of any user effort was so disappointing - even after looking for sliders and custom options. It's a solid 8, which it to say I pretty much agree with all metacritic posts and am just being nice to 2K since they hooked me up with a free Fathead!!!

Ryan H. gave it a4:
This game is an abomination and everyone who was responsible for it should be ashamed. I hate the fact that EA has a monopoly on the NFL, but at least they deliver a serviceable product. 2K sports is just raking their customers over the coals with this game trying to milk a buck out of the fact that they have no competition in the baseball market and therefore don't need to produce a quality game. Where to begin, OH WHERE TO BEGIN!? A.I. - Utterly repugnant. Makes me want to fist fight my dog. Computer making insane and unrealistic throws time and time again on one hand, only to drop fly balls or steal a base at inopportune times. It's all over the place. Graphics are passable. Not the prettiest game, but it's not bad by any stretch. Sound. Clear and well presented. I might be blinded by my rage in other areas but I haven't noticed any problems with the audio quality. Gameplay - This is the hate filled money shot right here. I can't even begin to guess what they were thinking with some of this stuff. First of all the menu system is easily one of the wort I've ever seen. There is no inherent logic to any of it. You will have difficulty getting from mode to mode ... but why would you? Because let me tell you right now the modes are terrible. Quick Play lets you play an immediate game against a computer opponent or a friend. Cool. That works too, so hey, more power to them. If only anything else did. My Player mode sounds awesome in practice. It's like an RPG career where you build a guy and work him through the minors at his position, growing him until you make it to the big leagues. That's all well and good except for the fact that it's smashed up like Billie Joel's Lexus after an open bar wedding. There are reports all over the net about people's save files being locked or corrupted. LOCKED OR CORRUPTED. It takes forever to level a character up, can you imagine the frustration you would feel if after you put 10+ hours into it, the file on your box just arbitrarily decided you weren't allowed to use it anymore? It's like the game is telling you to go screw yourself, at random, because it hates you. And achievements might not as well even be in the mode since they are all bugged out and glitched (like most other parts of the game). Half of them don’t unlock even when you meet their requirements. Online play is so laughable it’s not even worth mentioning. I haven’t even played a game online yet. I’ve heard it’s terrible if you can ever get in a game, but I’ve given up on trying. Laggy, unresponsive gameplay doesn’t tempt me that much, but I’ve given it a shot. I’ve put a good 30 minutes into just searching games and trying to connect other players in a ranked match … with no luck. What kind of servers are they using for this game? A couple hamsters in wheels duct taped to an 8 track? It’s like the game wasn’t even put through the QA rigors and that’s what’s most upsetting. One of the playtesters couldn’t just have been like “hey, guys, this game kind of, um, sucks? Why not make the online play actually usable, or include a franchise mode that isn’t bugged out or restricted by stupid arbitrary setting qualifications?” Which reminds me; league play sucks. I was on just the other night with two friends and we wanted to try and set up a fantasy draft league ala Madden (or every other sports game, ever). My goal was simple enough, optimally I wanted to have the 3 of us draft teams within a league of, oh I don’t know, 12 people or so. I was hoping that we could pick our players and the computer would auto pick for the remaining 9 spots … but that’s not the case. You can’t have computer controlled teams. So if I wanted a 12 team league, I needed 11 other humans. Ok, that’s kind of weak but whatever, I’ll just switch the league to a weird little 3 team thing just for the time being so we can mess around with it, right? No, it has to be 4. It won’t let you have fewer teams than that … or odd numbers of teams. So I had to open it up for a 4th random guy to join. And I did. We waited about 20 minutes until someone joined, and then when I tried to launch it, in perfect MLB2K10 fashion, it crashed. Sank like a stone. I get the feeling like its half complacency on the developer’s part and half lack of competition in the marketplace. I hear MLB the Show on PS3 is amazing. If I had that system I’d buy it because honestly it can’t be any worse than this. I anxiously await the day that the MLB license can be opened up and other studios can take a crack at it because as it is, I’m forced to buy this game because I love baseball and I have to play something. And something crappy is better than nothing at all. I bet that slogan is printed on a banner at the developer headquarters. They should use it as a quote on the box or in their marketing campaign “Something crappy is better than nothing! You don’t really have a lot of options! Now give us your money!” Congrats guys, you snookered me out of 60 bucks yet again and I hate you for it.

Scott D. gave it a10:
Great game by all means. Certainly a step up from 2K9. My player mode creates a whole new level of excitement and certainly puts MLB 2K as a high end series again. Great commentary, fluent graphics, excellent pitching controls and excellent batting controls. Many new animations added that I was very pleased with. Updated lighting, players look much more realistic and the stadium atmosphere is complemented by the improvement in crowd chatter and noises. I've been playing 2K games for a while now and I am very impressed with their work. MLB 2K8 and 2K9 were almost, steps down in the 2K series and I was very disappointed. But have no fear because 2K10 makes you feel like the transition was very smooth and I will be playing this game for a long time. The features and modes will keep you certainly in high spirits, a MLB fan's heaven. I have not yet seen one glitch, I should also add. A great game.