I got it tonight in VA.

Graphics and gameplay are great.

I might be the worst player in baseball history at laying off pitches.

I just played a 23-inning game. I lost 1-0.

The Show 08 is 100x better than 2k7 was last year.

I haven't played The Show, but my gamer nerd associates swear by it over the 2k series.

I've read reviews that 2k8 is terrible.

IGN gave it a 6.9 I believe.

The show, while not perfect, scored an 8.6.

2k8 apparently has Fangraphs after games, which is pretty cool. Everything else I've seen about it has been pretty overwhelmingly negative, though. I think the IGN review was 7.4.

Guess I'll be buying Bully: Scholarship Edition.

The MLB 2k series has basically become Madden. The game has some bad stuttering issues, but instead of making the game smooth they slapped on some features like the trading cards and swing stick 2.0, which is apparently broken. I do hear the pitching and throwing with the right stick is nice though.

edit: UPDATE! The stuttering problems are believed to be caused by terrible use of the hard drive for caching. Taking out the hard drive will cause the game to run smoothly, so hopefully this can be patched quickly and easily. In the meantime, deal with the stuttering or use a memory card if you want to save.

It plays a good game of baseball no doubt. ITs very simulation now, but the framerate issue they have to fix in a patch asap. I dont mind the game to stutter every now and again. All games do that.

I hope they can fix it, because if they can its really sad because its a rock solid game of baseball finally.

Also, there is a few reviews which rate 2k8 over The Show, its just a matter of opinion i guess.

The demo is great. All the right analog stuff works well. The pitching is amazing. There is a slight stutter on the demo but I think it's worse in the final product. Hopefully they can patch it, if they do this is going to be a great game.

Has anybody played 2K8 for PS2? I'd like to hear about the swing stick and the gameplay.

IGN rates MLB 2k8 a 7.2 (which is pretty low for that site for a non-downloadable game) and The Show 08 gets an 8.7.

Main complaints with 2k8 center around graphical issues... frame rate, collision detection, animation glitches, inaccurate commentary.

Is 2k sports really going downhill? I mean, their hockey game got poor reviews this year and now the baseball game too. Their baseball games IMO were always pretty bad though.

IT actually got rated fairly high on other websites. xplay rated it 4/5 while it gave the show 3/5. EGM rated it 85/100. If it wasnt for the stupid framerate issue it's a damned good game of baseball.


ONly work around is you have to be signed out of xbox live for the game to run good. Its like it has some kind of memory leak when being logged on.

All the gaming message boards I have read have destroyed 2k8.

Bottom line, a released game should not have these types of issues.

It has 1 issue. Its a pretty big issue, but its not related to gameplay. I guess thats a good thing, but it shouldnt have went live with the ****ed up coding when being signed on to live.

I didn't catch whether you were discussing the Xbox version or PS3. I'm a ps3 guy, so that's the only reviews I have been reading.

Well, have both systems, but i bought it for the 360. No clue how the ps3 game runs. I may have to rent it just to see the difference.

Who wants to play a game of mlb 08?