Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots - Franchise (2-13-09)

[Steve_OS]

We have just posted some more Major League Baseball 2K9 screenshots. These show off the Franchise mode.

[ExtremeGamer]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

Franchise looks good. Amateur draft, but no rule 5 or 40 man rosters it appears. Bummer, but I can deal. I've not finished a season in any baseball game in a few years anyway.

Everything else looks really good.

[SoxFan01605]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

Franchise looks to be pretty deep, statistically, which is very good. Love the sabermetrics and mlb.com interface.

The end of year stats are pretty wonky and kinda ll over the place, but that's hopefully somewhat addressed in tuning. If not, it's nothing some good editing and testing can't fix

I'm thinking that the PC version will be the way to go. That may also help with my issues with the facial inaccuracies.

Anyway, great work Steve...you're certainly keeping busy...lol

[King Gro23]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)



look at the majors digits 19 P and 16 B
Thats 35 players on the mlb roster
and the other leagues have the looks of 25
So it looks like 40 man rosters are in

[Blzer]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

Menu screens kind of annoy me, especially the background.

A 2K game hasn't done that for me since 2K3.

[tinman]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

Some concern over the sim engine...

Mets, Phillies, Yankees, Dodgers all finish below .500 for the season. Royals have more wins than all of those teams. and finish above .500.

Dodgers only win 65 games.

Rockies finish with the best record in National League.

Arod hits something like 25 home runs while playing in 161 games. We know from the released ratings that 2K didn't penalize his ratings for his steroids admission.

During the off season, user controlled Florida has no trouble landing top free agent Matt Holiday.

Yes, it's just one sim but there are some definite red flags here.

[CarryTheWeight]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

Nice to see that the Comeback Player of the Year award made it into this game...NBA 2K9 did this so well that the winners of that award became big contributors to your team and tried to keep their "improved season" stats up for the rest of their career. We'll see if that happens in MLB 2K9.

During the off season, user controlled Florida has no trouble landing top free agent Matt Holiday.

This is something to be worried about, but VC's free agent signing in NBA and NHL this year is pretty hard, especially for marquee players. At least from what I've experienced, unless you offer them much more than what they wanted, it'll be hard to land them. I wonder if the "play for winner" attribute (first seen in NBA 2K9) can influence which team a player will gravitate toward, much like OOTP does.

[CMH]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

Way too many players with 200 hits.

[dynastynation]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

Anyone notice that Chris Duncan (terrible OFer) won the gold glove? lol first off, that guy is the worst defensive player on the Cardinals. Second, he won't come close to landing the everyday starting job ever again...

[Hoos]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

All I can say is Kudos to my WhiteSox for winning the world series!!!

The depth of the franchise looks insane!! Just hope there's not any crazy franchise killing bugs. No it wont be 100% perfect and I dont expect that but I hope any bugs (if any) are minor ones at least

[dorismary]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

Thanks !!! looks like lots of options this year

[SoxFan01605]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

look at the majors digits 19 P and 16 B
Thats 35 players on the mlb roster
and the other leagues have the looks of 25
So it looks like 40 man rosters are in

Isn't that a bit presumptuous? I could have sworn they already confirmed NO 40 man rosters.

Remember, this screen is taken in the off-season after many transactions were made. So it could just as easily be that he didn't shift guy to their respective levels yet. They seem to be on the "Finalize Rosters" step too

I'm not saying your 100% wrong, just taking a bit of a leap.

[King Gro23]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

yea I know I was asking if anyone knew
So it looks like 40 man rosters are in? is what i was meaning.
I think the chise looks really good, I didnt like the amount of career years sorta
A big plus were the pitcher strikeouts totals nice to see a pitcher over 145 for the league lead lol.
As previously posted the gold gloves were kinda weird. The AL comeback player of the year I forget his name, I never heard of him. Dont you have to be good, then be bad, and then Have a comeback year?
He is a current minor and he won comeback player.
I think this game will be really deep this year, with different angles you could mix it up camera wise just about all the time to get a new feel.
One thing I was skeptical is VC random records , I wonder how they actually do their win/loss sim engine. Top teams below five hundred and 60-73 game winning teams in the mid 80's. Also little discrepency in divisions like NBA 2K9
Franchise looks promising though, I also had a hard time landing free agents in NBA & NHL this year, you have to put up extra gwap to reel em in.

[SoxFan01605]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

yea I know I was asking if anyone knew
So it looks like 40 man rosters are in? is what i was meaning.
I think the chise looks really good, I didnt like the amount of career years sorta
A big plus were the pitcher strikeouts totals nice to see a pitcher over 145 for the league lead lol.
As previously posted the gold gloves were kinda weird. The AL comeback player of the year I forget his name, I never heard of him. Dont you have to be good, then be bad, and then Have a comeback year?
He is a current minor and he won comeback player.
I think this game will be really deep this year, with different angles you could mix it up camera wise just about all the time to get a new feel.
One thing I was skeptical is VC random records , I wonder how they actually do their win/loss sim engine. Top teams below five hundred and 60-73 game winning teams in the mid 80's. Also little discrepency in divisions like NBA 2K9
Franchise looks promising though, I also had a hard time landing free agents in NBA & NHL this year, you have to put up extra gwap to reel em in.

I gotcha. Yup, the stats and records are ALL screwy. Not the numbers themselves in all cases, just who they're attributed to.

I mean, a guy with a 6.00+ ERA and 27 Saves is the reliever of the year?...lol...god help the league.

I don't put too much stock into that stuff though. There has yet to be a console baseball game that tracked all the awards realistically and most need some considerable ratings editing to end up with realistic simulation results (including The Show).

So I'm not worried on that front and overall franchise looks to be pretty solid in terms of stat tracking and interface. So we'll see

[redsox0717]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Beta Screenshots (2-13-09)

LoL, Nathan won reliever of the year with a 4.02 ERA and 27 saves, and Marmol won it with a 6.33 ERA (!) and 27 saves.