Triple Play Baseball

Dec 10th, 2008 by cm1

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EA Sports has had a reputation for giving sports gamers everything that they want in their sports videogames, with the company’s football games, in particular, having just about every feature imaginable including franchise modes and the like. Oddly enough, the sport that has consistently been the slimmest when it comes to features and a general attention to detail from EA Sports has been baseball, which just so happens to be a sport that attracts the highest number of fans that are hardcore into stats and other intricacies of their favorite pastime.

And with the company’s first baseball game on PlayStation 2, Triple Play Baseball, there are no signs that this trend of giving the gamer a simple, no frills, game of baseball is about to change. Triple Play has all of your basic play modes — quick game, exhibition, season, and playoffs — and even has a tremendously fun take on the standard home run derby in its Big League Challenge, but nothing is really offered here much beyond the customary stuff.

Roster management is limited in that it only allows same number of player trades, in game strategy doesn’t allow for double switches, line-ups can’t be set-up specifically for left- or right-handed pitchers, created players have a very limited number of batting stances and pitching styles. The statistical tracking is also pretty weak in that league leaders for the regular season are deleted once the playoffs stats and the season stats for all the players in the league that didn’t make the playoffs are also wiped out.

Considering that EA Sports is well known for always being the leader when it comes to features included in a sports game, it’s odd that its baseball series is the most limited of all the upcoming baseball videogames. The sad truth is that even if you look at Triple Play Baseball on PlayStation 2 purely from the standpoint of an arcade style baseball game, where you’re going to get more games with double digit scoring than not, it still falls short of what it should be.

The game limits the player to a single method for hitting and fielding and doesn’t even allow you to change things as much as you could in the PlayStation version of the same game. If you’re a fan of the series that wants to handle hitting simply by timing the swing correctly and pressing up on the directional pad for a home run swing, you don’t have that option.

That’s not to say that Triple Play Baseball is a bad baseball videogame, because it isn’t. It’s actually a good game of hardball, albeit a very limited one. If you’re okay with the 15-13 contests, star pitchers finishing a season with an ERA over 7.00, home run totals for league leaders in the 80-plus range, a batting cursor and no power swing, and manual fielding at all times, then you’ll find that Triple Play Baseball will probably meet your needs perfectly and is a very enjoyable game to play. If you want anything that strays away from that formula at all, then you’ll be sorely disappointed.

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