MTV Multiplayer: One small step for sports games -- one big difference for me ("MLB07: The Show" edition)
This entry was posted on 2/28/2007 6:00 PM and is filed under MTV News,PSP Issues,Sports Gaming.
Hey look! I wrote something about a sports game. Check my MTV Multiplayer entry for the day. That's about as rare as EA publishing a non-sequel. Oh, I kid, I kid.
What motivated me, a lapsed sports gamer, to try "MLB07 The Show" on PSP and think well enough to blog about it?
Quoting my MTV musings:
In TV commercials, video game football players tackle their opponents right into the camera. You see virtual baseball stars dive for a steal as if you were watching from the infield grass. Basketball players dunk right through whatever virtual cameraman was snapping the shots. Then you actually play these games, and the action is all shot from the rafters and the sidelines. You're controlling the game from the cheap seats. The games probably would be impossible to control otherwise. You can't orchestrate a squad of athletes if the camera view is riding on one of their shoulders.
Millions of people don't mind this. They buy and play baseball, football and basketball games by the store-full every year. I've just never gotten into them. They don't get me as close to the action as those commercials tease. I assumed there wasn't a sports game for me.
Then I got a copy of the new "MLB 07: The Show" on PSP.
It almost sounds like I was writing promo copy for the game. Terrible of me, no? Click the link above for the full story.
(If you're reading this entry after the week I posted it, you'll have to flip through the multiplayer.mtv.com site back to the Feb 28 entry)
