Baseball Mogul 2003

Rating:
Summary: The Best of it's kind
Review: By far, Baseball Mogul is the best in the very scarce Sports ownership games. Why? It's the only game with the MLBPA license, meaning it has REAL major league players. You can also delete teams, add teams, make new cities, sign free agents, change names of teams, and accept or deny trades by a computer controlled opponent. There is also a fantasy draft, where you can build your dream team. All of the games in this genre have the same options, but I've played a lot of them, and nothing even comes close to what Baseball Mogul offers. There might cheaper games like this, but this is the game you want to buy. I highly recommend this game over the others.

Rating:
Summary: Great game, just lacks a tougher free agent market
Review: I enjoy the game because it allows you to play manager of a real MLB team like no other game. You get to establish the lineups and pitching, defensive, and batting strategies. You control your farm system. It's the most realistic I've ever seen or played. The only error in the game is that it is too easy. By the second time I played the game I've been able to establish franchises that dominate the league by making the playoffs for 20 straight years and winning the world series 15 of those 20 years. There is too much talent amongst the up and coming rookie talent that the computer generates. With a careful eye a manager can score some All-star talent for very cheap because the computer owners aren't very bright. Also a heavy investment in your recruiting/farm system guarantees success at a far cheaper price than going after the A-rods and Randy Johnsons of the league. There are just too many awesome free agents each year to make it competitive. Apart from that it is still a fun game that can lose it's appeal after your fourth dynasty that has a .700 winning percentage over a 15 year span.

Rating:
Summary: Best and Only Baseball club Owners Perspective
Review: Only Baseball game that can span 100 years since
SSI's Tony Larussa's Old time Baseball, only with
this game can you get to wheel and deal players,
it could use a better game manual but as far as
a decent baseball game that is built around
100 years of simulation strategy and not arcade play
"it's the only game in town".

Rating:
Summary: good
Review: The person who said:
There are a few faults that I hope the Sports Mogul company can fix with this program. First off the designers didn't model in the possiblity of strikes or lock-outs...

Look, do you see any sport game that has strikes/lockouts? No. I dont think so. People dont want to be reminded of strikes and they will like the sport less if they have strikes. SAME WITH THE GAMES. Anyways its a great stat game.

Rating:
Summary: So do you think that you can do it better?
Review: This game is a stat hound's dream come true. If you check MLB.com every day to see who did what, and actually enjoy reading box scores, you will have a blast with Mogul 2003. It recreates the frustrations of players demanding higher salaries every few years and also the incredible satisfaction of realizing that the rookie left fielder you have been cultivating in the minors for two years will not only be in the next few All-Star games and MVP voting, but he is also signed for the next five years to a dirt cheap contract.

Make trades, set ticket prices, dump excess baggage players, and even watch as games take place on a play by play screen, but don't expect to see players actually playing the game. This baby is all words, numbers, and player portraits. If you really LOOOOOVE baseball that much, you must have this game. It will take away hours upon hours of you life. If you must have arcade action, stay very far away from this game or any other stats based sports simulator.

Rating:
Summary: Must LOVE baseball to enjoy this game
Review: This game is a stat hound's dream come true. If you check MLB.com every day to see who did what, and actually enjoy reading box scores, you will have a blast with Mogul 2003. It recreates the frustrations of players demanding higher salaries every few years and also the incredible satisfaction of realizing that the rookie left fielder you have been cultivating in the minors for two years will not only be in the next few All-Star games and MVP voting, but he is also signed for the next five years to a dirt cheap contract.

Make trades, set ticket prices, dump excess baggage players, and even watch as games take place on a play by play screen, but don't expect to see players actually playing the game. This baby is all words, numbers, and player portraits. If you really LOOOOOVE baseball that much, you must have this game. It will take away hours upon hours of you life. If you must have arcade action, stay very far away from this game or any other stats based sports simulator.

Rating:
Summary: So do you think that you can do it better?
Review: This the the game that gives you a chance to be the owner of the next baseball dynasty. Whether that is the Tampa Bay Devil Rays or San Degio Padres. This game gives you a chance to run real players in fictional team names (guess they didn't get the owners premission) in real citys. Or just trash it all and use real players and create your team for you own hometown. Think you can bring in the "Rocket" to your home market and afford him for more then what the Yankees are paying? Can you make it to the World Series and win and bring a profit to your team? These are all answers that you can answer with this game. You have the chance to become an owner and set everything from the price of the beer and hotdogs with the ticket prices to decided whether people in your city need to pay-per-view your games or be able to watch in on the local channel. Make the big trades, trash the current stadium and build another. Make your farm system one of the best in the league so that when your modern day heros start to age you have some young bucks willing to keep your team running hard. This game does model the aging process and you can watch as some of your most important players are retired, hopefully you have planned well and got some new ones online. Even better with this game you can set up a Email game and be the Commish and run a league. Fanasty Baseball at its best. With being a single player the hardest decision sometimes that can be made is whether to set up and watch a play-by-play of a game or have the game play out a week or month in a couple of minutes. I have been playing this game for about 3 months and I have taken the Mariners (or in the game Sailors) to the Series 5 times in 9 seasons and won all five times.
The other big thing about this game is the number of stats that you can ask for. Just about any stat that some one can think of this game will have it. RBI's, Home Runs, ERA,Win Precentage, Fielding Precentage, Errors, etc.
There are a few faults that I hope the Sports Mogul company can fix with this program. First off the designers didn't model in the possiblity of strikes or lock-outs. THe other thing that they didn't model in is player-owner fueds. Those are minor faults when compared to all that this game has to offer.