Rating: Summary: An enjoyable Baseball Simulation Review: Season Ticket Baseball is a dummed-down version of Out of the Park Baseball that you can buy on-line. Buyer beware because this point isn't advertised. But, STB is a lot cheaper, so it can be worth it. And best of all, it is a lot of fun. I've only played 4 seasons so far, so I haven't seen how the game progresses once your current crop of players retire. But the best part of the game is the entire minor leagues/financial model. You take the role of GM as you try and decide which aging veterans to resign or which to trade for prospects. I'm sure there is lot this game could do better, but it is still a lot of fun if you like Baseball sims.
Rating: Summary: Awesome Review: This game is great,it lets you be a GM and control a baseball team. You do everything from play the games to schedule promotions. The game is not licensed by the MLBPA but all the players and teams are there so all you have to do is edit theres names. If your a serious fan of baseball you have to get this game. For 20 bucks its a home run deal.
Rating: Summary: Incredly Real Game Review: This is a great game and it's incredibly realistic. You can do everything from signing and trading for the players that will help your team to raising ticket prices and setting promotional offers. The only bad thing is that you don't get to play the actual games but in the end that doesn't really factor into how great this game is. I give it 5 stars and a great recommendation.
Rating: Summary: A great game with a few holes Review: This is a great game and the best part is trying to maintain a dynasty through the years. Unfortunately, you can get around losing free agents by trading your players for players on other teams with years on their contract with similar salaries. My current team has won the division four straight years, but I did use the editor to change my market size and my coaches/scouts. The challenge is to develop your own players and I haven't yet found out the best way to do that. The game gives you every stat you need and goes by quickly. I'm addicted to it and my wife gets mad at me. As the game progesses, players seem to demand more and more money, so inflation plays a part.
Rating: Summary: A great game with a few holes Review: This is a great game and the best part is trying to maintain a dynasty through the years. Unfortunately, you can get around losing free agents by trading your players for players on other teams with years on their contract with similar salaries. My current team has won the division four straight years, but I did use the editor to change my market size and my coaches/scouts. The challenge is to develop your own players and I haven't yet found out the best way to do that. The game gives you every stat you need and goes by quickly. I'm addicted to it and my wife gets mad at me. As the game progesses, players seem to demand more and more money, so inflation plays a part.
Rating: Summary: Could've EASILY been 5 stars Review: This is an addictive game that offers soooo much depth. I bought baseball mogul too & this blows it out of the water! Now for the downside... it is painfully apparent that this game was devoloped by baseball fanatics who didn't know a lot about mainstream programming. The first thing that surprized me was that it didn't take advantage of the windows autorun feature *strike 1* ... fair enough, i was still able to install it. Then I tried to figure out how to upload all of the "classic players & teams" into the game & since the game doesn't come with an instruction booklet i looked for a help function... but there was no integrated help feature *strike 2* I finally accessed the help section (after i closed season ticket first) from the programs menu & it said you can upload & extract files from the baseball archive. "WHERE?!" where is the archive?! on the disk... no. there wasn't a url. so i tried the website & it had no help section for Season Ticket *strike 3* P.S. i did find the database & you can download it at [website] This game has all the potential to be a great game but getting help on this game & trying to figure out it's little kinks can cause major hair loss.
Rating: Summary: Wow! A stathead's dream. Review: This is, quite simply, the best stat-orineted game out there. I've spent nearly 20 years playing baseball games from Ye Olde Strat-o-matic to the latest PC games. I've loved titles like Front Page Sports and High Heat (at least until they stopped providing actual support). What I particularly love is keeping track of stats and league history, making front office decisions about free agents and minor leagues. If I wanted to play joystick games -- well, that's what my playstation is for. This is the best game out there -- yes, even better than baseball Mogul, which I know is blasphemy to many of you. It is not perfect -- no gold gloves, no user input on MVP's or Cy Young's and an akward stat interface (which is still yards better than the clunky leage leaders interface in Mogul). Minor league stats do not carry over from year to year and it does not give you the ability to build a unique stadium and doesn't appear to set conditions based on city location. But it's awesome. Teams rise and fall like they do in real life. Sometime a team will dominate -- a few good players will propel them to success and the resultant flood of money will keep them going. Other teams can wallow in failure. Buy it's great to see how things change from season to season, year to year. Each player, even retired, has a "player card" that has scouting reports and his history, including contract signing, all-stars games and awards, career bests. You can change the game by changing eras to the dead-ball era or just custom-setting the stat norms to say, decrease homers and increase steals. And Hall of Fame? YOu can pick your own Hall of Famers or boot ones out you consider unworthy. It even keeps book of single season records. This is definitely worth your time.
Rating: Summary: Wow! A stathead's dream. Review: This is, quite simply, the best stat-orineted game out there. I've spent nearly 20 years playing baseball games from Ye Olde Strat-o-matic to the latest PC games. I've loved titles like Front Page Sports and High Heat (at least until they stopped providing actual support). What I particularly love is keeping track of stats and league history, making front office decisions about free agents and minor leagues. If I wanted to play joystick games -- well, that's what my playstation is for.
This is the best game out there -- yes, even better than baseball Mogul, which I know is blasphemy to many of you. It is not perfect -- no gold gloves, no user input on MVP's or Cy Young's and an akward stat interface (which is still yards better than the clunky leage leaders interface in Mogul). Minor league stats do not carry over from year to year and it does not give you the ability to build a unique stadium and doesn't appear to set conditions based on city location. But it's awesome. Teams rise and fall like they do in real life. Sometime a team will dominate -- a few good players will propel them to success and the resultant flood of money will keep them going. Other teams can wallow in failure. Buy it's great to see how things change from season to season, year to year. Each player, even retired, has a "player card" that has scouting reports and his history, including contract signing, all-stars games and awards, career bests. You can change the game by changing eras to the dead-ball era or just custom-setting the stat norms to say, decrease homers and increase steals. And Hall of Fame? YOu can pick your own Hall of Famers or boot ones out you consider unworthy. It even keeps book of single season records. This is definitely worth your time.
Rating: Summary: A lot of fun, but too easy Review: While I enjoy this game immensely, it does seem to be a bit to easy and I've about played it to its limits. I've played about 20 seasons and usually sim through them and then play the playoff games. The fun part for me is building the team through trades and free agents and drafts.
But I've won my division about 10 years in a row. The game makes it too easy to trade high paid veterans in the last year of their contract for younger up and coming stars with years left on their contract. By doing this, you always have a fresh infusion of talent without increasing payroll. This game is fun and maybe the newer editions of Out of the Park Baseball (which you can buy only online) will have solved this problem.
Rating: Summary: A lot of fun, but too easy Review: While I enjoy this game immensely, it does seem to be a bit to easy and I've about played it to its limits. I've played about 20 seasons and usually sim through them and then play the playoff games. The fun part for me is building the team through trades and free agents and drafts. But I've won my division about 10 years in a row. The game makes it too easy to trade high paid veterans in the last year of their contract for younger up and coming stars with years left on their contract. By doing this, you always have a fresh infusion of talent without increasing payroll. This game is fun and maybe the newer editions of Out of the Park Baseball (which you can buy only online) will have solved this problem.
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