The BIGS 2: A Look Back at an Arcade Classic - Operation Sports Forums

Recommended Videos

Collapse

The BIGS 2: A Look Back at an Arcade Classic

Collapse
X
 
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • RaychelSnr
    Executive Editor
    • Jan 2007
    • 4846

    #1

    The BIGS 2: A Look Back at an Arcade Classic


    <small>Because a baseball game with players on steroids brings the best image possible for baseball.</small>

    Despite my interest in the sim-side of sports games, I’ve really enjoyed a lot of arcade-style titles over the past (two) generation(s). I occasionally revisit the NHL Hitz and NFL Street games, and I think WWE All-Stars is my favorite wrestling game.

    But the arcade game I go back to more than any other is The BIGS 2. One of the greatest crimes of this console generation is how 2K really mismanaged the MLB license; that there was never a true The Bigs 3 makes this tragedy worse.

    What made The BIGS 2 so good?

    Read More - The BIGS 2: A Look Back at an Arcade Classic
    OS Executive Editor
    Check out my blog here at OS. Add me on Twitter.
  • BigBlue
    Pro
    • Feb 2003
    • 662

    #2
    Re: The BIGS 2: A Look Back at an Arcade Classic

    Is this game still downloadable and playable online against friends? I'll have to check tonight.
    Thanks!

    BigBlue

    Comment

    • jyoung
      Hall Of Fame
      • Dec 2006
      • 11132

      #3
      Re: The BIGS 2: A Look Back at an Arcade Classic

      It's $20 to download the Xbox 360 version from Microsoft's marketplace.

      For that steep a price, you're probably better off finding a copy locally.

      I don't know if the online play still works.

      Comment

      • eyeknowzz
        Rookie
        • Oct 2002
        • 147

        #4
        I had a lot of fun with this game. Definitely one of the most underrated games of this generation of consoles.

        Comment

        • DrJones
          All Star
          • Mar 2003
          • 9097

          #5
          Thanks for the write-up, I'll pass this along to some of my old Blue Castle friends. Fun game to work on. (I still maintain that Eastbound and Down stole the idea for Kenny's Season 2 sojourn to Mexico from us.)

          Too bad (for me, anyway) that Blue Castle (now Capcom Vancouver) stopped making baseball games to concentrate on the Dead Rising franchise, but hey, zombies gotta eat.
          Originally posted by Thrash13
          Dr. Jones was right in stating that. We should have believed him.
          Originally posted by slickdtc
          DrJones brings the stinky cheese is what we've all learned from this debacle.
          Originally posted by Kipnis22
          yes your fantasy world when your proven wrong about 95% of your post

          Comment

          • xCeeTee
            Rookie
            • Aug 2013
            • 32

            #6
            This was the first ever baseball game I played, and that was around May time this year. It was awfully addictive, but all online modes were cut off, the only bad thing. And that the sort of, career mode type game mode, you played as the full team. Good idea all in all though

            Comment

            • Clarke99
              Banned
              • Feb 2012
              • 462

              #7
              Re: The BIGS 2: A Look Back at an Arcade Classic

              Originally posted by DrJones
              Thanks for the write-up, I'll pass this along to some of my old Blue Castle friends. Fun game to work on. (I still maintain that Eastbound and Down stole the idea for Kenny's Season 2 sojourn to Mexico from us.)

              Too bad (for me, anyway) that Blue Castle (now Capcom Vancouver) stopped making baseball games to concentrate on the Dead Rising franchise, but hey, zombies gotta eat.

              Because that is what we need more Zombie games, instead of a one of a kind sports game. tell your buddies they screwed us!

              Comment

              • jyoung
                Hall Of Fame
                • Dec 2006
                • 11132

                #8
                Re: The BIGS 2: A Look Back at an Arcade Classic

                Dead Rising 2 had sold over 2.2 million copies as of 2011.

                The BIGS 2 was made for 6 different platforms and still couldn't crack 1 million combined sales.

                According to the market, more zombie games are what we need. It is certainly what Blue Castle needed, to avoid going under like so many other developers.

                Comment

                • maddenps2
                  MVP
                  • Jul 2004
                  • 1865

                  #9
                  I just bought this game for 9 dollars on ebay

                  Comment

                  • BCDX97
                    Rookie
                    • Jun 2009
                    • 123

                    #10
                    This was a fantastic game. Really fun to play.

                    I guess it just needed more zombies for better sales. Zombie baseball? I'm in.

                    Comment

                    • jyoung
                      Hall Of Fame
                      • Dec 2006
                      • 11132

                      #11
                      Re: The BIGS 2: A Look Back at an Arcade Classic

                      Originally posted by BCDX97
                      Zombie baseball? I'm in.
                      Surprisingly, a developer actually tried that exact concept:

                      <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7hE4jytZqjA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

                      Comment

                      • BCDX97
                        Rookie
                        • Jun 2009
                        • 123

                        #12
                        Never heard of that game! But then I see it's for Kinect and I'm sad.

                        I tried to play the Nicktoons MLB BIGS spin-off on Kinect and good god it was horrible. Just didn't react to movements at all.

                        Comment

                        Working...