Crappiest baseball game ever made
Then the flaws started to show like the really hot chick who after a week turns out to be a psychopath.
Here's why the game stinks:
1. "Inside Edge" Never works; Staying in a batters cold zone with .192 average yields as many home runs as throwing it right down the middle
2. Random players hit constant HR's: Sean green hit 4 off of me in 2 games and got a total of 8 hits even though I through every ball in his cold zone.
3. Base running is awful. Don't even think about stealing a base. And have fun when your trail runners randomly decide to start running. Oh and controlling your guys is mind blowingly difficult. Hit advance to early and the guy won't run. Hit it to late and he'll never stop running.
4. Hitting although satisfying is totally random. Same swing every time because you can't tell what pitchers are coming and even a slight twinge of your wrist causes a full swing. While a full swing causes a check swing.
5. Fielding is completely retarded. There must be some magical zone that you have to be in in order to field. Far too often you charge the ball only to have it bounce by you without your player even looking at it. Or you'll line up for a fly ball and the circle moves at the last second causing your player to lunge like an idiot. Rarely do you drop these balls but it really takes away realism.
6. CHEAP AI!!: Have fun when you are in a tie game in the 9th and hit back to back HR's only to have both robbed in deep center field by a crippled Jim Edmonds scaling the wall like he was 20. This happens A TON! I got robbed of game changing HR's 3 times in 2 games! Twice in a tie game late and once when down by 4 with the bases loaded in the 8th!! WTF!! That is not fun at all and grossly impossible. Also, be prepared for the other team who was stifled all day to unleash a barrage of hits the last moments of the game. Especially when you throw it in a cold zone. They'll blast it ever time.
All in all this game takes away all the fun of baseball. Its mostly a HR derby on both sides of the ball. Rarely does a single score a runner.
The AI is cheap, the hitting random, the INsiders Edge inaccurate and pointless, and overall that game feels buggy and arcadey without any arcade flare.
STAY AWAY!