More advanced than the mechanics behind an SNES-era baseball game, sure, but not nearly as difficult to pick up or master as intense, realistic sims of the sport. How Does It Play?: It’s an arcade-style experience, so you don’t need to make a claw with your hand in order to throw a different kind of pitch, and hitting is very much down to timing, location, and sweet spot. It is entirely your loss if that’s the path you chose. Skipping out on Power Pros because of how it looks is the baseball game equivalent of missing out on one of the all-time greats, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, due to its cel-shaded, cartoony style.
Not to mention: its take on minor-league life is even more realistic than The Show’s, despite the fact it includes things like alien prophets and ninja training on top of the stuff you’d expect.
It might, stylistically, seem like it is the exact opposite of something like MLB: The Show and its extreme realism, but Power Pros actually has even more career-based modes to choose from than The Show’s singular, famed Road To The Show mode, and more besides. MLB Power Pros 2008 has myriad game modes, and deep, addicting, arcade-style baseball gameplay. You might think this cartoonish style means this game is for kids, or not serious, but you would be wrong on both accounts. They’re not only chibi-style characters with no mouths, but they’ve got a whole Rayman thing going on, too, where they are bodies without legs, their feet held in some kind of gravitational capture and fully functional despite not being attached to the body they belong to. Why MLB Power Pros 2008?: The first thing you will notice about MLB Power Pros 2008 are the character designs. Platform(s): Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Playstation 2 So, Baseball Prospectus is going to write about, review, discuss, whatever the many, many baseball video games released in the last half-century that the genre has even existed. It can also be the game played on the virtual field. Baseball is more than just the game played on the field.
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