MLB 2K8 or MLB '08?
 

I haven't bought a baseball game since MVP '04 and I'm getting conflicting reports on each of the two current series of games. Some of my friends have said decent things about the 2K series and hated The Show games, while sites like Gamespot seem to have had more favorable ratings for The Show than the 2Ks.

Can someone with knowledge of the games run down some pros and cons? Does either have a batting simulation similar to the old MVP games where you can guide your swing with L3? What are the franchise/career modes like?

Any help would be appreciated.

People say the Show is better, but its your basic hit the button and press the button for hitting and pitching. They say its a good game. I have never played it before. So i dont know. 2k games at least try to be innovated with pitching and batting and what not. This year. they have rewritten the ball engine. The fielding engine, the batting and pitching engine. Demo should be out within the next few days.

I will be buying MLB2k8 for sure.

Yeah, from what I've read 2K8 rehauled the pitching/hitting and has swing stick. Batting simulation is arguably the most important aspect to a baseball game to me and I much prefer that to what I've heard about The Show's batting sim.

The Show is one of the best baseball games ever made

Expound on that, if you don't mind. Whatcha like?

I have enjoyed MLB 07 a lot last year, the next seems more interesting, the most realistic baseball experience to date with innovations, and I have preordered MLB 08: The Show on PS3, which will be released on March 4, 2008. looking forward to it.

I've only played the MLB 07 on PS2 and it was pretty good, but I only played maybe twice so I never got a real feel for it. The feature list they packed into the upcoming PS3 one is insane though.

It "feels" right and is about the closest to a pure baseball sim in my mind since High Heat 2002/03 which was #1 in my book until I played the Show last year

That - and the Road to the Show mode where you play as a player in the minors trying to make your way up make the game a winner

About the only thing I didn't like last year is that the graphics weren't too eye-opening (which didn't bother me much, I'm more into a better gameplay experience) but from all things I've read, they much improved it this year.

I haven't gotten a chance to download it yet, but the demo for MLB the show '08 is on the PSN marketplace - download it and try it for yourself and decide

Some of us like the simpleness of those games.. That is why the Wii makes me mad, I want to sit down and play a game.. Not ****ing learn techno moves to acomplish something..

I loved the original allstar baseball game on n64..

That and basewars.. Give me a new version of basewars...

I still enjoy Baseball Stars original 8 bit game.

I believe it was the first game to ever keep running stats.

MLB2K7 was crap.

I have The Show 07 for PS3. It's ok.

I think that in-game, it's an average baseball game. Nothing special. The other things like franchise and career mode have some problems with generating realistic simulations.

It's been a long while since I played it, but for example in career mode I created myself as a closer. After building my player up diligently over several seasons, I could never get a contract like an upper echelon closer should get. Even being almost max skills and in the mid/late 20s, I'd get contract offers like $2 million over 3 years.

Further, my player started with the Royals, and after making it to the majors finally I kept getting sent down to AAA for seemingly no reason. At the start of one season, I made 6 or 7 appearances, gave up a run or two but saved all of them, but it was back to Omaha. Conversely, I was mowing them down in Omaha and couldn't do anything to get called back up. It seemed to go away once you signed a free-agent deal, but before that it was almost random.

Hopefully they fix the career mode because it was pretty cool apart from the realism issues.

I'm really torn on what to get.

I know they made improvements in 2k from last year, but last year's game was brutal to play. Everything was a HR or a single. Pitching was impossible.

I might wait a day, and check the reviews on both games because I dont want to waste 60 bucks again.

Plus you could run multi-player leagues. I had it in the Army and everyone on my floor in the barracks was in it. We wore the piss out of that game. I even had to change the battery inside the game once.

Played the MLB08 the Show demo. The game seems pretty cool. I didnt care for the pitching. Its like hitting golf balls in video games. 2ksports kills them in graphics no doubt.

Going to play the demo some more, and whenver the 2k demo drops check it out and see what game i will purchase. I am curious to see the new swingstick 2.0 and the new pitching from the 2k game.