

The stuttering of last year is gone as well. Hit variety seems consistent with last year (which is good). Whether you like it or not will depend on where your hot button issues are (and how good the sliders end up being, I suppose). In general it plays a solid game of baseball. If you hated 2k8, you're probably not gonna like this one any better. The feel of the game is very similar, but a lot -not all, but a lot- of the sloppiness of last season is gone. If you're a fan of 2k8 or if you think you could've liked it last year had it not been for some of the knucklehead issues with it had, then you should be happy with this one. (I don't mind the between inning transition so much as all the noise that goes on between pitches.) So, *if* it is the Hurry Up option being enabled that's messing with the game's stability that's a bummer for me, but better than having the crash come about with the setting disabled too.Īs for the rest of the game. It cuts out all the between pitches and between innings junk that make games take forever. This is a bummer to me, because I *really* like the Hurry Up Baseball option. I gave it 15 minutes to come back around and nothing.įor the next four games I've turned Hurry Up Baseball off and I've completed all four, having gone to my pen multiple times, and not had a problem. Inning changes and the screen goes black. No pitch selection screen for the reliever. When I went to my pen (I have pitcher warmups turned off, for the record) in the 6th, however, it was the same thing. All was well with selecting his replacement. In the second game it was a similar deal. I muddled through and when I got out of the inning the screen went black (which it normally does for a second on half inning switches) and never came back. I could still throw pitches, but I couldn't see the key to tell me what pitches the pitcher had available or what right-stick motion I needed to use them. When my reliever came in there was no pitch selection menu. I have to emphasize that *both* of these games were played with the "Hurry Up Baseball" option enabled. In my first two games MLB 2k9 crashed during an inning transition. Pro is the second lowest difficulty level after all.)įirst thing's first. After one game I upped the difficulty from Pro to All-Star because hitting on Pro is ridiculously easy. These are largely played on all default slider settings. I've now put in roughly six games of MLB 2k9. Note: I was running short on time, so I have not spell-checked this post.
