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On to this year's version. I always buy two titles a year. Why? Because one title doesn't have everything. Usually the game play is better on WSB and the stadium selection is superb on ASB. And at $39.99, ASB 2005 was a steal. The graphics have improved and the game play is the biggest turn around!! Especially the batting interface. One major complaint though. I hate having to earn the special features of the game!!!!! Argh!!!!! ASB 2005 advertises over 80 ballparks, however, until you complete a few (a dozen or so) specialty situation games, you can only access about a third of the ballparks. I bought the game, you have my money, no give me what I want!!!!!!

Pros
-better graphics
-much improved batter interface!!
-very unique and imaginative ballparks (only seen about 1/3)
-batting stances and pitching windups are very accurate

Cons
-can't access all of the special features (very frustrating)
-haven't used expansion mode yet (last year's was a pain)
-Jeter has too much power (however, I can get over this)

Bottom line....at $39.99...it's a steal!

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Great Game.Aug 15, 2004
By Rushead
In my eyes there has never been a good All Star Baseball game untill 05. The Franchise is very nice and so is the expansion teams. Pickup Games are very fun. The movments are very real. Xbox live is very fun. The stadiums are very very real. There is trivia between innings. I highly highly reccomend this game.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Fun But Easy...Sep 28, 2004
By Rex
I know this is kind of late to write about All-Star Baseball 2005. When it first came out back in March, I thought it would have no competion. Past ASB games had ruled the baseball video game world, and I thought this game would rock.

The first thing that is good with it is all the featurettes. The TWIB interview thing is really cool, and the whole baseball card collecting thing is great. The situations are cool and the stadium tour thing is cool. Overall, the game's features are good.

As for gameplay and graphics, that is why it is not MVP Baseball 2004. The game is way too easy. I was playing with the Mets and Danny Garcia was hitting .450. I had a winning record playing as the Pittsburgh Pirates. The only way I kept up with it was putting it on legend and taking every helper off (pitch aid, strike zone). The graphics though, it seemed that MVP has the best graphics around and this can't stack up.

The new camera modes are cool, especially the Broadcast camera; it actually looks like you are watching a real game. The fielder cam was pretty good, but if they can fix it up next year, it will rise to the top.

The most impressive thing about the game is the stadiums and the crowd detail. The stadiums looked identical to the real thing. The fake advertisements made it feel like you were at the stadium. Shea Stadium even had the ribbon around the Twin Towers on the top of the scoreboard. The old stadiums are great. If you could mash together MVP Baseball's graphics and gameplay with ASB's stadiums and franchise mode, you would have one helluva game.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

A pretty good game overall.Nov 21, 2004
By Chris Carlson
Pros:

-fun gameplay

-great creat a player feature

-great graphics

-good songs

-great commentary

Cons:

-franchise mode sucks!!!!(you can finish all 20 years in a day)

-no trade a player feature (you are stuck with all of the old rosters and cannot even change the lineup)

overall, this game is just okay, but I am sure that there are better games out there

ok I guessApr 02, 2004

This game features wise is really cool, it gives tours of the old time baseball stadiums each with their own history. The expansion franchise is really fun to try. They had new animations like bats flying out of player's hands. However the gameplay is not very clean, and it is graphically subpar. If you are looking for cleaner graphics play MVP 2004.

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