Here is my assessment of the guys review:
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Baseball has long been an American tradition. There is not one person in america who hasn't heard of or played the sport. However, there is another side to baseball that the majority of the world hasn't taken part in. General Management!.
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When I first started playing I noticed that this was no normal baseball game. Everything, and I mean everything is customizable. I'm not a huge sport nut but I found it sort of RPG-like with all the numbers and what not. My only complain is how long it takes to load. For a game/sim this simple there is no excuse for the huge loading times.
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">RPG-like, umm sure... the numbers are the key part of any sim. Loading times.... hmmm has this kid ever played any other sims? It takes a while to load the huge database for this "simple" sim. This is another prime exhibit of the average person calling any game that doesn't have 3-D rendered guys running around shooting up the place "simple". Another bad sign when a guy reviewing a sports game admits to not being a huge fan.
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Is it fair to even throw this one in? I guess not. First off the game is all done with simple 2D pages. They are pretty but couldn't they have added some flash? Also another dissapointing aspect is the lack of sound. I don't know if it was my computer but I couldnt get any sound to work. Jesus Christ what is the world coming too when you can't even hear your mouse click in a game?
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Mmm.. ok, what sounds did he want? If he'd press down harder he'd hear his mouse click. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> Of course it seems like OOTP/STB will be getting sounds in the future so this will end up being a point where the reviewers can claim the sound stinks. What kind of "flash" did he expect?
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There really isn't a lot to say here. The game is pretty much a sports nut's sim city. The biggest thing I can compare it to is Yahoo's fantasy sports games. Only a lot more in depth. Another really cool feature is the online leagues. While I can't really see joining such a thing myself its pretty cool. You can build your team and join a league online and play to see who is the better general manager. Along side that you can also trade players, scout, and get fantasy league news through your GM email. The funniest thing is they even added a mode where you can challenge and umpire's decesion. I guess the comic relief comes from when the umpire thinks your a complete ******* and throws you out.
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">First cuss words generally don't have any place in a professional review. A sports nut sim city.. not sure if I agree with this, as here you are trying to do something; win, where as in Sim City you build your city and watch it go. Apparently he thinks that you get fantasy news from your GM email (which of course just plain isn't true). Apparently the argue the call feature is now a standard "mode" and is only there to see if you get thrown out. I wonder just how many games did he play..
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Number crunchers and Sports buff's will find this game fun. Personally I hate it. I give it props for its cool calculations
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">We get props for cool calculations, yeah. Except we don't do anything special, just your basic averages and stuff... hmmm. He then points out the games target audience and mentions that they'll like it. But not without mentioning that he "hates" it.
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This game really shouldnt have been made. If anyone spends over 10 bucks for it they ought to be shot. However, my personal biases should not be your opinion. Try it out for yourself. But, im warning you!
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">OK he does mention his bias shouldn't be your opinion, which is good. But that the game shouldn't have been made, and that customers should be shot is out of line. His late warning is unnecssary.
Overall opinion.
The reviewer shouldn't have been selected to review the game. Apparently he doesn't like sports, which taints the review right from the start, secondly the reviewers maturity definitely comes under scrutiny with the language and expressions used. The review overall is very shallow (just over 3 paragraphs) and doesn't touch on many features. The sites rating system is very graphics/sound orientated (half their ratings are sound, graphics, and presentation). Missing are categories for things that really matter, like depth, replayability.
My overall impression is the site or at least the reviewer seems to be a young teenager trying to find a cool way to score free copies of video games. He seems to have put about 1 hour (if that) of time into the game. The review is probably shorter than the book report he had to write the same night on Huckleberry Finn (if his school district hasn't banned it). Of course it was probably hard to really review a game that you didn't understand, when you had to get in your obligatory Grand Theft Auto III time and do your chores and homework.