The baserunning is easy to understand, and functional, and pitching is a breeze. You click and have to time your swings correctly and make sure you’re swinging at strikes to hit the ball. Functioning about as well as a PC baseball game could, this game uses click batting mechanics to simulate a real baseball game. Their overall ratings can differ game by game, and can have an impact on how you do during a game.įor the actual gameplay itself, it’s tremendous. This is also the case in general when your players just have bad days, or if they’re playing at a certain stadium.

When Angela is playing against Tony, her batting becomes phenomenal and her overall ratings increase. For example, there is a brother and sister pair named Angela and Tony. In addition, who they’re playing against can also have a BIG impact. And the BEAUTIFUL fielding mechanics! (Coughs) sarcasm (coughs)ĭepending on who you select, your players can have different chemistry with their teammates that can ultimately hurt or help their performances. An interesting point of depth for this clear children’s game is the element of rivalry or chemistry between two players. Do I want a run heavy team, or do I want to swing for the fences? Do I want to be defense savvy, or perhaps just focus on offense? The choice is all in the group of players you select. I had a blast with season mode, loving the different combinations you could have your teams be composed of. You have a wide arrangement of stadiums to choose from, all with their own strengths, weaknesses, and quirks, and then, you’re off for some baseball fun! In the season mode, you can be a coach of a backyard baseball team, choosing whatever group of players you’d like, a difficulty, a home stadium, and then playing a long season to determine the Backyard Baseball champion! You can then play them in 3 inning games, 6 inning games, or 9 inning games.

In free play mode, you can pick whatever players you want for your team in a draft style of choosing against a computer player.

Loading up the game, you have two distinct playing modes and a practice mode. Always giving their games some charm, all of the characters, sounds, music, and unique playing elements add up to create an incredibly interesting and enjoyable playing environment. I was quite impressed with the depth to the characters, and yet not when realizing that Humongous developed this game. In addition to one kid MLB player for all 30 teams, you also have a large roster of “backyard” characters that all have unique and comical voices, nicknames, playstyles, and demeanors.

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