MLB 09: The Show - PlayStation 2

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Synopsis

Get ready to step out onto the diamond as MLB 09: The Show delivers a truly authentic baseball experience. An array of exciting new and improved features combine for incredibly realistic sports gameplay, including Franchise Mode 2.0, which lets you run the show as the team owner, and 40-man rosters. Hone your skills to go from rookie to legend in the intense Road to the Show 3.0, and create your own leagues with the Online Season Leagues feature.

MLB 09: The Show offers a variety of ways to customize your baseball experience. See if you can call all the right pitches, control base runners down to the last detail and guide every batter under your control to perform beyond his statistical ability. Put your pitching talents on display with the Pitch Command System and Release Point Pitching, and upload, download and rate rosters in the Roster Vault. With an enhanced presentation system, unprecedented online options, hundreds of personalized animations, virtually infinite options for player creation, even the option to insert your own face with the help of your EyeToy camera (not included), and nuances including wild pitches, broken bats and check swings, MLB 09: The Show places you right at the center of the MLB-style action.

Product Features

Build up your highlight reel with an enhanced Career mode, which incorporates a new Career Spotlight that underscores all your accomplishments and failures, and control salary, playing time, team performance and more in an enhanced franchise mode

View detailed pitcher and batter analyses for both in-game and post-game to help you make educated matchup decisions

Save your progress in the middle of a game or inning at any time in your career, franchise or season

Experience authentic fielding with unassisted fielding control, multibranch fielding that lets you take full control of fielders and PlayMaker fielding that lets you play to your team's strengths and weaknesses

Set up and maintain multigame rivalries in Rivalry mode

Figure out each umpire's differing definition of the strike zone to enhance your success

Take on the role of a big-league manager with game time decisions that let you take full control of your team

Increase the energy of the baseball experience with comprehensive, progressive commentary from Rex Hudler, Matt Vasgersian and Dave Campbell

Feel the stadium come to life around you with coordinated crowds, team colors and audio for each team and specific players

Play to your own signature soundtrack with the My MLB Music feature

Best Buy Customer Reviews

Good but Frustrating

Posted by: TripleH from Baltimore, MD on 12/24/2009Overall game is good, but the mode Road to the Show where you create your own player and put him through the majors is nearly impossible. You cant get a good hit even if you time the hit perfectly and 9/10 you hit a grounder or a pop up. And the attributes take forever to upgrade. You get over 400 points and your running skill only goes up 4 points. If you want the game for the Career mode, dont get it. You will only spend hours and hours yelling at your T.V. But if you just want to play it for fun, then get it.