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The Baseball season just began and the video games companies bring us a lot of Baseball game. The developer Angel Studio and the publisher Nintendo has released the game Ken Griffey Jr.'s slugfest. This is a traditional Baseball game where you can choose your team and you must beat the others team.

This new game has 4 modes : exhibition, season, world series and the homerun derby mode. In this game you can choose your team, your stadium, put your favorite players and you then you confront the other team. There is an option that wil let you create your own players and you can give them the attributes that you want.

Like I said it before, you can start a season with your favorite team and play a lot of game against all the other teams. The animations of the players are very detailed and you can do a lot of moves. They can even hurt themself. So this game as a lot of realism in it.

Without the expansion pak, the graphics are not extraordinary. It would have been more pleasant to be able to play with 4 players like in the other Baseball game, All-Star Baseball 2000.The computer can be very hard to beat if you don't have a good team. You can create your players but unfortunately,

This time, it looks so real!

The players and referees are well detailed.

you can't create a new team with your players, you can only put them in an other existing team.

This game offer for one of the first time the possibility to create your own players, with a total of 20. You can change all their carateristics and put them at your image. The sound is very good and is in Dolby : from the announcer that tells you what is going on as well as Ken Griffey Jr. that encourage you when you do a great shot to the sound of an ambulance and people that called food, everything is there. Then. all the 1998 statistics of the players have been included. You can choose any of the teams in the national and american league and you your favorite stadium as well.

Finally. with the mode that let you create players, you can pass a lot of hour to create a player that look like you or that look like your friends. If your an amator of Baseball. The lifespan of the game is almost illimited because of the season option. Ken Griffey Jr. slugfest is a good game that you should try if you like this fabulous sport.

Companies :
Publisher :
Nintendo
www.nintendo.com

Developer :
Angel Studio
www.angelstudio.com

Official site of the game : www.nintendosports.com

Category:
Baseall

NOTES:

Interest : 80 %
Control : 80 %
Graphics : 80 %
Sound/Music : 85 %
Originality : 70 %

TOTAL : 79 %

Requirements

Console :
Nintendo 64

Accessories :
Compatible with Rumble Pak and Expansion Pak

Number of players :
1 to 2 players

ESRB Ratings:
E (All Ages)