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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, from the intricacy of Adaptive Pitching Intelligence, which gives you the choice to trust your catcher or shake him off, to the stadium-style fun of the My MLB Music feature, which lets you store favorite music for use in the game and even record custom fan yells and chants to help you simulate the energy of the crowd. Hone your skills to go from rookie to legend in Road to the Show 3.0, which combines interactive training, new settings, a new steal/lead-off system, presentations and coach interactions, and create your own leagues with the Online Season Leagues feature, which now gives you the opportunity to hold a fully functional draft and utilize a flex schedule.MLB 09: The Show offers a variety of ways to customize your baseball experience, from creating your perfect roster and uploading, downloading and rating rosters in the Roster Vault to selecting news feeds and headlines via the SportsConnect News2Go feature. 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. With an enhanced presentation system, unprecedented online options, hundreds of personalized animations, AI improvements and such nuances as wild pitches, broken bats and check swings, MLB 09: The Show places you right at the center of the MLB-style action.
Features
Build up your highlight reel with an enhanced Career mode, which incorporates a new Career Spotlight that underscores all your accomplishments and failures
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
Find an online opponent who matches your skill level with SportsConnect Online User Tracking (SCOUT)
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
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
Other
Number of Players
1
Platform
PSP
Number of Discs
1
Genre
Sports & Outdoors
Developer
SCE San Diego Studio
UPC
711719873020
Customer reviews
4.6
Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars with 5 reviews
(5 customer reviews)
80%
would recommend to a friend
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Cons mentioned:
Baserunning, Difficult, Slow
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
More realistic than ever
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I have owned all the MLB games for the PSP and this one by far is the most difficult. When starting Road to the Show, your player is so slow and weak that you can barely get the ball out of the infield. Your player pops out too much and also hits into too many double plays strictly because you are so slow. Since I am an outfielder, I am too slow to also run down fly balls in the gap even though the computer gets to them with the greatest of ease. The way you earn/lose points is more in depth. You lose greater points for not hitting your goals. You lose more for hitting into double plays. Since you cannot hit your goals in most games, you gain nothing from game to game. This causes your ability to go down. Ability goes down, your playing time goes down too. The new baserunning system is a joke. Using the analog stick to do all the running is hard. You have to hold the direction of the analog stick the entire time you run. Even if you are 1 foot away from the base, if you let up on the analog stick, you will stop. If you hold it for too long, you will overrun the base. This game is very difficult and you will find yourself being very frustrated with it right away. MLB 07 is much better, gameplay wise, than MLB 09.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Legends, Roster control
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
best baseball game ever!!!!!!(for PSP)
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Best baseball game ever! this way better than '08, because in this game, you can play as legends! for example, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, and Ryne Sandberg. and if you go to roster control at the main menu. switch any guy on your team with anybody from another team and that team won't even care. P.S. the legends are on the free agent pool. But as an example, i got rid of Aramis Ramierez for A Rod, and Derek Lee for Ryan Howard. Anything is possible in this game. MLB '09 The Show man!
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Realistic, Roster control
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
GREAT
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
if u like baseball then this is a great game, trust me i own 2k9 too and this is much better. the ability to go online and update the roster i think is the best part, but thats just me. this game is great, its realistic, real, and fun. buy it if u havent yet
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
great game!!!!!!!!!!
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
love the game, best game on the market!!! wish i had a ps 3 ta play this masterpiece!!!!! 1 thing though if you own last years game its basically the same game, just with updated rosters and minor features. baserunning isn't as hard as the post written above, you don't have ta hold it the whole way you just have to highlight the runner ya wanna move and then hit the corresponding base you want hime ta go to, takes some practice but once ya get it, ya got it. all in all those are minor complaints, definally worth your purchase if ya love baseball games and realism. one of my favorite things about this game is how real the scores can be and the amount of hrs, if i hit one hr a game that shows me alot, ive had some 2-3 hr games, but they are earned when ya get em, no homerun fest with this game.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Nothing but love!
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great Game for a boy that's into baseball from 10 - 22! My 10 year son would play it everyday if I allowed him to. It's challenging enough to keep him interested and stay focused to want to win. Don't hesitate, this is a total home run!