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| Major League Baseball 2K8 | 
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| From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $16.00
You Save: $13.99 (47%)
New (31) Used (19) from $12.54
Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 741
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 39352
UPC: 710425393525
EAN: 0710425393525
ASIN: B00118T6G4
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: brand new & factory sealed
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| Features:
| • | New and improved player walk-ups, batting stances, waggles, home run celebrations, step-ins and step-outs bring each player to life | | • | Right stick motions and timing determine pitch type, speed and accuracy | | • | Intuitive and simplified baserunning controls | | • | 90 Minor League teams available in both Franchise and Exhibition modes | | • | Broadcast booth with Jon Miller and Hall of Famer Joe Morgan |
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Product Description
It's 2008 and it's time to hit home runs as 2KG Major League Baseball 2K8 brings you your best season ever. Thrilling features have been added to make this season more exciting. Are you out or in? Joe Morgan is announcing 2K8! Play ball!
Team play is more expansive as there are 90 minor-league teams added to the game, including authentic uniforms, many authentic minor-league stadiums, and a few generic ones as well. 2K8 also features a new baseball-card system, in which you can earn players' cards by completing certain tasks. You can then sell duplicate cards for credits to buy new card packs, which consist of 10 cards and may include a stadium or special team. But by far the coolest part of the card system is the online card battles. When you have enough player cards to fulfill the requirements of a full team, you can then combine your cards to create a team and take head-to-head against other gamers' card teams online. An entirely new and unique pitching interface which is unlike anything that's been done before. The main input comes from the right analog stick. The execution involves matching a gesture to throw the desired pitch. This enables a lot more granularity from the input than a digital face-button approach.
Revolutionizing your control of the 5 tools in baseball are brand new pitching, fielding and base running controls and completely overhauled batting interface. Featuring a totally unique trading card mode, robust Minor League system, all-new Signature Style animations for 2008, and more! 90 Minor League teams available in both Franchise and Exhibition modes Over 1 MILLION online gamers in the 2K community for head-to-head games
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The Complete MLB Experience: Major League Baseball 2K8 returns to the diamond with the most complete MLB experience available. Revolutionizing your control of the 5 tools in baseball are brand new pitching, fielding and baserunning controls and a completely overhauled batting interface. Featuring a totally unique trading card mode, robust Minor League system, all-new Signature Style animations for 2008, and more, Major League Baseball 2K8 brings a new level of fun to the virtual baseball world. Features:
- Swing Stick 2.0 - Unparalleled ball-to-bat contact, unlimited variety of hit types and more realistic at bats with deeper Inside Edge integration
- More Signature Style - New and improved player walk-ups, batting stances, waggles, home run celebrations, step-ins and step-outs bring each player to life in true, 2K Sports fashion
- Total Pitch Control - A revolutionary right analog stick pitching system. Right stick motions and timing determine pitch type, speed and accuracy.
- All-New Baserunning - Intuitive and simplified baserunning controls featuring overhauled AI now play a key role in offensive strategy
- Full Minor Leagues - 90 Minor League teams available in both Franchise and Exhibition modes, with over 20 authentic Minor League Stadiums and additional authentic Minor League Stadiums post ship via digital download
- 2K Cards - Earn them, collect them, share them,and trade them. The most in-depth card trading system ever, taking the MLB 2K community to a new level.
- 2K Sports Online - Over 1 million online gamers in the 2K community, go head-to-head against the best players on the planet
- Best Booth in the Business - 2K Sports proudly brings back the duo Jon Miller and Hall of Famer Joe Morgan to the broadcast booth, delivering the deepest commentary available
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 MLB 2K8 October 13, 2008
I bought a used one a while back and it always locked up so I had to get a brand new one instead. The new one works great. If you're looking for a baseball simulation game this is a good buy. The only thing that is wrong is the game sometimes drags a little bit.
Better than 2K7 October 9, 2008
While sharing many similarities to MLB 2K7, MLB 2K8 appears to be a much more superior game.
A few positives: No longer can you guess the pitch and know immediately that its going to be somewhere. The guess takes a little bit longer to show up in the hitting zone, thus making you pay a little bit more attention.
The Minor leagues are much more in depth and many current minor leagues are represented, but not by name. You have to figure them out by their first intials.
The pitches come in slower, which made for a difficult adjustment, but overall its easier to time your swing with the analog stick. In 2K9, I found this almost impossible on fastballs over 90 mph. The pitches also act much more realistic with later breaks and not as much break to pitches like sliders and cutters.
Home runs are a little bit cooler as the camera stays with the batter as if he's watching the ball get up and out. Definately not as many HR robberies as the last game.
Improved throwing from the outfield which is difficult to master, but much more effective in getting runners out at the plate with a good throw.
A few negatives:
I always hate when a game changes a paricular button to something totally different than it was the year before. In 2k7 you used the RT to sprint when in the field, in 2k8 its the dive button. If you've played 2k7, I can almost guarantee you'll give up a few doubles and triples because you forget about this change.
Its still a little too easy to hit HR's. By about my 3rd game on pro I hit 8 of them in a game (a few of them without even trying) 4 of them with Ryan Howard.
My game has frozen a few times after about 2 hours of gameplay. Not sure if its the game or maybe a problem with my xbox or just my particular copy, but this appears to only be a problem with this game as I have about 10 other titles that work fine.
I still hate John Miller an Joe Morgan as the commentators on this game and hoep they change it up next year. Very repetitive commentary and too often their stories get cut off by a the gameplay. There's not enough time between pitches to completely explain the infield fly rule, Joe.
Overall, I'd say 2k8 is much better than 2k7 and is probably the best baseball game I've played in the 2k series. There is an adjustment period with the game, you have to unlearn what you learned with 2k7. Anybody who loves sports games should enjoy this one.
 wow September 19, 2008
Huge disappointment, there are so many glitches in the game play its impossible to write them all out. First, the guide book is useless, it doesn't tell you how to steal bases (which after months of playing I still can't figure out), and that when you press X when theres a popup the outfield will call for the ball, useful information when you consider if you dont do that the outfielders will collide almost every time.
Putting that aside, infielders collide while one is throwing to a base, and thus theres no throw. Infielders and outfielders field the ball casually toss it to a base even as you fully power the throw and scream at the game. Outfielders lock up, so you will be near where a popup will land but not under it, the fielder won't move anymore, and then the ball drops.
All that aside, the pitching is way to complicated, but first the hitting. The game tells you if you step to early or to late on the top part of the screen while the pitch is coming at you, so you don't have time to read that and then pick up the pitch, and by the time you've swung the text is gone leaving you scratching your head as to what went wrong. Now for the pitching, the catchers are dumb, lets face it, you won't always throw what they call for. But with the complex joist stick actions needed to throw the pitches, often the game simply gets them wrong. So you'll clearly made a slider motion or change up motion, but for whatever reason the game things you were trying to throw a curve or a fastball, and the result is almost always a home run.
Other than the graphics, there is really nothing good about this game to be brutally honest, the more I play it, the more I wish I was playing something else.
 terrible game September 7, 2008
The graphics in this game is awful and so is the gameplay. It freezes and it is just a boring game. Mvp baseball 2005 for gamecube has better graphics and better gameplay. I strongly recommend not buying this game.
MLB 2k8 was an abortion from the start. July 28, 2008
What a shame. I liked 2k7, but 2k tried to do too much new and ruined the fun experience and sim aspects with the stupid analog stick pitching that is broken. Way too many meatballs. Frame rate is substandard, especially on the PS3 version. Save your money and get 2k7 if you only have an XBox 360. If you have a PS3, then the Gods of Sim Baseball have shined on you with MLB 08 The Show, the best baseball game yet.
2k is on the verge of losing their MLB license after the complete utter mismanagement of their baseball game. EA will own them before too long anyways and then we can get another great version of MVP Baseball.
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