Just wondering what baseball game y'all gonna pick up for the upcoming season.

I've been a big fan of the near-sim World Series Baseball (now ESPN Baseball) for its true-to-life simulation play, but this years edition sounds like they are getting off track with first-person play and other modes that really take up disk-space where other more deserving modes and animations and soundbytes on the DVD-ROM.

EA's MVP Baseball 2004 could be the winner for my cash. In recent years, I've bashed EA's more arcadey play in all of their franchises as opposed to Sega Sports, but this years edition (according to all reviews) seems to be the hit. It's gotten spectacular reviews, including IGN's Editors Choice Award. What really turned me on is that the reviewer is/was a World Series Baseball fan.

We'll have to see, I'll rent them all soon

Anyways, just wanted your thoughts since we do have quite a few baseball fans here, and apparently alot of video gamers as well.

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