Backyard Baseball 2005

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Summary: GREAT GAME!!
Review: Excellent game... for the guy who said that this game doesn't have a savegame option.. yes, you're right. It doesn't have the option, because the game saves automatically.

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Summary: I Thought the others were good!
Review: Having owned all the prior versions of this amazing series, backyard baseball, 2001 and 2003, this was a must have. The graphics are great and the gameplay is even better. I love it.

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Summary: this is the best!!
Review: i got this about a week ago and my brother and i can't get off of the computer. What all of the other people say is really untrue it so much better gameplay then the '03 version. it never gets boring!

P.S. IT IS SUPPOSED TO SKIP THE PARTS IF YOU PRESS THE SPACE BUTTON!!!!

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Summary: What are these other reviewers talking about? It ROCKS!
Review: I just got this game over the weekend and I can't believe how much fun it is. I like it a lot more than Baseball 2003 because now it is all 3D. If those other people are having problems they should try buying a new computer.

Season Play is great too because now I can unlock some more pros. I just got Piazza over yesterday. I also unlocked a robot called Clanky after playing one of the practice games. He is an awesome pitcher!

Back to playing.

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Summary: Great game!
Review: I just picked up Backyard Baseball 2005 for the PC and I must say, it's quite a cool game! All the locations you can play in are quite cool looking and varied, and the pros as kids are hilarious! I love me some Ichiro! I'm about halfway through my first season and I can't stop playing it. Check it out!

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Summary: Worth the effort!
Review: I must say that although we initially had problems getting this game to run properly on my son's computer (an 800 Mhz PIII w/ATI 7500 running Windows ME), once we downloaded the latest drivers (the ones from just two months ago didn't work!), the game ran great! My son is 8 years old and he loves it - he's already up to the "Pro" difficulty level and is just starting to play the Season mode. It's fun watching him put together a team based on the kid's stats - this game is definitely teaching him a lot about Baseball! Highly recommend to anyone with a young baseball fan in the family!

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Summary: its the best thing ever
Review: its so good that the graphics look so real and the players. i love how they copy the players like alex rodrieguz ichiro & sammy sosa i love the game its so cool realy you have to BUY IT

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Summary: Backyard Sports is now 3-D!
Review: My eight-year-old daughter and I both really enjoy this new Backyard Sports title from Humongous. I wasn't sure that I would like the change from the 2-D animated style of their previous games, but they kept the wacky cartoony flavor in the 3-D models, and having the camera fly around the fields is pretty cool. The fields aren't ordinary baseball fields--the kids play in an Everglades swamp, in a southwestern desert, and on a midwestern farm complete with a tornado and crop circles. We both really enjoy the humor of this game. I especially like the color commentary by Abner Doubleplay. My daughter enjoys the crazy power-up pitches.

We have an older Nvidia Gforce 3 card and have had no problems. I have heard that some older video cards aren't supported by the latest DirectX from Microsoft. Maybe that is the problem some people are having. I've always found Atari's tech support helpful when I gave them a call, though I haven't had to in a while.

The only reason I'm not giving this five stars is that I wanted to play with my gamepad, and the button mapping is quite awkward. Unlike other games I have that say they support controllers, there doesn't seem to be any way to remap the buttons. So we just use the mouse and keyboard. (My daughter doesn't mind. I'm the one who plays console sports games, so I'm used to a gamepad.)

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Summary: Really Fun!!!
Review: The 3-d graphics although an improvement, are hardly worth the effort. The gameplay is hard and frustrating, the option to save is gone and so you have to finish the 2 hour marathon in one sitting, the characters are bland and "robotic" as one fellow reviewer had the good sense to say. Backyard Baseball 2005 is a far worse than the prevous years.