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Fanswag: MLB Power Pros 2008
There are a few things you should know before entering. Entrants must be current and legal residents of the United States or Canada (excluding Quebec) and at least 18 years of age or older. Read up on the rest of the official rules right here.
Top 5: Games for your Day Off
Gaming is a hobby, but sometimes it can feel like a job. As developers try to boost replayability, your gaming commitments can become anxiety-inducing. Just ask anyone who dared to attempt achieving 100% of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. At first, it's a fun and wonderful romp through a vivid world that's just oozing with life and character. By the end, you wish you'd never left Vice City. Did anyone here complete all of Super Smash Bros Brawl? I'm talking Classic Mode with every character, all of the Event matches, the target smashes, and every trophy and sticker available. At a certain point, some games can become an obligation rather than a means to entertainment.
Today being Labor Day in the US, let's take a break from completing every mission, collecting every star, and unlocking all bonus content. Sometime between your 11 AM rise from bed and your evening consumption of copious amounts of hot dogs at your family barbeque, take some time to truly enjoy gaming. Here's our Top 5 recommendations.
The Top 5 is a weekly feature that provides us with a forum to share our opinions on various aspects of the video game culture, and provides you with a forum to tell us how wrong we are. To further voice your opinions, submit a vote in the Wii Fanboy Poll, and take part in the daily discussions of Wii Warm Up. Wii releases this week: Sam and Max edition
This week's Wii releases are:
- MLB Power Pros 2008
- SNK Arcade Classics V.1
- King of Clubs Mini Golf
- Summer Athletics The Ultimate Challenge
- Sam & Max: Season One
- Ford Racing Off Road
MLB Power Pros is back for the 2008 season
Little in size doesn't necessarily mean little on content. Gameplay modes include Exhibition, League, Home Run Challenge, Success and MLB Life -- just to name a few. Wannabe big-shots can manage teams and organize rosters, seasons and equipment, all with the goal of becoming World Series champion. MLB 2008 looks pretty gosh darn good, and with solid gameplay to back it up, this might be a winner when it hits the shelves on July 29th. Scroll through the mammoth gallery of images below for a sneak peek at the action!
[Via press release]
MLB Power Price: $19.99 [update]
If you consider yourself a connoisseur of baseball video games, there's no reason why you shouldn't have a copy of MLB Power Pros! Never mind the deceptively simple art style with its super-deformed characters -- this is one of the deepest baseball titles currently available. Konami packed over a dozen different modes into MLB Power Pros, including an RPG-esque mode in which you follow a college baseball player's career to help him realize his Major League dreams.
Amazon has MLB Power Pros priced at $19.99 as part of an ongoing sale for sports-themed games today, so now is the time to pick it up if you're interested! Keep in mind that this deal will only last until midnight (or until stocks run out).
Update: It looks like this popular bargain is going in and out of stock. You might have to keep checking back until the $19.99 price shows up.
WRUP: You have to love October edition
So, will you be taking part in the festivities with us, or are you planning on playing through something else?
MLB Power Pros demonstrated in detail
Uploaded by thetanooki
The Tanooki's review of MLB Power Pros includes some lengthy video of the game in action, along with informative text about how gameplay works. We're fascinated by the series' continued Japanese success and impressed by the audacity of releasing an SD sports game in the realism-obsessed U.S. sports market.
The cutesy appearance belies some fairly deep gameplay. The review speaks of things like a batting "sweet spot" that shrinks and grows according to your performance, and pitching that gives the player control over not speed, but precise positioning.
The review makes some negative points about the difficulty of fielding and the nerfed motion controls, but is positive overall, and it sounds like the game can still be fun with waggle turned off. You can make your own observations from this video and the others found at the site!
TGS07: Power Pro Baseball swings for the fences
TGS07: Turn your giant, featureless head toward some Power Pro screens
These screens of MLB Power Pros from the pre-TGS Konami Media Conference show the Japanese version of the game, called Jikkyo Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2, which, just like our release, uses the American Major League Baseball teams. If Japanese gamers can handle American MLB games without mullets (the "Powerprokuns" have no hair at all), then maybe we can too.
MLB Power Pros Japanese site launches
[Via Go Nintendo]
