anyone getting the bigs?

[patrickgpe]

www.2ksports.com/games/thebigs/

 

so i got my ps3 and presently the only game i have for it is the show. I really don't play video games as much since i got out of college (i got the show in may and am up to my 10th game in my season). I was a big fan of slugfest and this game seems to resemble it. Is anyone else getting it, I am thinking about picking it up next week when it comes out.

 

For those with the wii, this is the first mlb game on the system. I think it would be a blast on the wii.

[bthurley19]

I'm planning on getting the Wii this weekend and this will probably be the first game I get when it comes out on Monday. I'm more of a baseball sim guy but this game looks like it could be tons of fun on the Wii.

[mothershipconnection]

I demand that anyone who buys it for Wii posts a review. It's gonna either be awesome with the motion control, or they'll botch it and it'll suck like you can't imagine.

[Schlitz001]

I didn't really pay attention to this thread at first, because I thought "The Bigs" was not available for the Xbox 360. Now that I know it is, I'm going to go out and get this game tomorrow and give it a shot. I love arcade style sports games.

 

Here is 1UP.com's review of "The Bigs". It's not very comprehensive, but they gave it an 8.5. I'll post my thoughts on here once I've played it for a while.

[patrickgpe]

it should be in stores around 2 today, i'm going to pick it up today but doubt ill play it all until tomorrow evening.

[bthurley19]

Well I got my Wii after checking about 7 stores around the city of Wausau. It's tons of fun but between that and playing softball last night my arm is killing me. I thought The Bigs came out yesterday but couldn't find it, so I'll look again today and let everyone know how it is.

[patrickgpe]

not there on my lunch, won't be at best buy till 2. I thought slugfest was pretty fun last season, so i am looking forward to this game.

[Iron Chef Napalm]

IGN says meh for the wii edition.

 

The swing lag sounds like the biggest problem.

[Sepolevne]

I got the X-Box 360 version. It's really a lot of fun, but it's really hard. It's really a novel arcade version of baseball. The game boils down to individual matchups more than anything else.

[bthurley19]

Well I got the Bigs earlier today for the Wii and played for about 4 hour total today and my arm feels like I threw a 120 pitch game.

 

I just read the IGN review and it is basically exactly what I would say. The swing lag takes a little to get used to but I got it down now. It's very easy to hit the ball out but not easy for those balls to actually land though. Outfielders will scale the wall and jump what seems like 30 feet and sometimes make the catch or knock it back into play. Running is an endurance test as rapidly drumming with the controller controllers your runners. The controls for offense seem to be spot on and easy to learn. Defense however is where the game gets tough and frustrating. From pitching to fielding defense is tricky. Timing your pitches is very difficult and throwing the pitch you want can be hit or miss. A little twist the wrong way and your curve ball becomes a changeup. Pitching can be very fun if you get on a roll and you feel as though you are the pitcher mowing guys down. Defense is by far the worse part as fielders will routinely throw to the wrong base and miss balls that are very catchable. Pulling up on the controller to throw to second is terrible and my hand seems to involuntarily always flick the controller down as if pointing to second. Diving plays are tough to make as well. Don't worry about having football scores as all my games were 5 runs or less for each team. The powerup that allows you to throw insane pitches or easily hit an uncatchable homer is useful but trying to pitch around a powered-up batter is literally impossible as they make you throw strikes. I did strike out juiced-up Soriano with a guy on and me being up 2 in the bottom of the 5 (which is the end of the game), so that was very satisfying. One final note for us Brewer fans is that no one on the Brewers has the correct batting stance and several players do have correct stances in the game for other bigger market teams. JJ Hardy is also a black guy in the game who can't hit. The game is really starting to grow on me though and I feel it will be very fun for a while.

[patrickgpe]

played it a few times last night on the ps3. I personally think for arcade baseball, slugfest was more fun. I wish there was a season play, and i started playing their career mode or whatever it is, as ryan braun but only got through the preliminary stuff so i am not sure about it yet.

 

The game play is OK. The specialty pitches on slugfest was fun and they are not here. There is absolutely nothing to the pitching mechanics.

 

I also think the mode you can go into with a guaranteed homerun is dumb. Atleast in slugfest you might of got turbo which would increase your odds of going yard, but this is money in the bank.

 

The opposing team has the ability to jump high in the air to steal homer runs and while i may be able to do it, i am not sure how.

 

Part of the fun in slugfest was taking out the opposing runners or fielders. You can't do that here.

 

Overall, the game may be fun, but I felt for an arcade baseball game, slugfest was better.

[Trading123]

I got it for the Wii. It is absolutely horrible. I wish I would not have gotten it.