■ 11/04/08 - Major league Baseball 2k8 It’s that time of year again, when sitting side-by-side some drunken lunatic is nothing but a pleasure while both of you ridiculously cheer on your losing team through another year of disappointment and false hope. You know the feeling we’re talking about, when you watch your team make it all the way to the ALCS/NLCS, only to get swept by the opposition and miss out on the big game completely.
■ 03/04/08 - Major league Baseball 2k8 If I told you that Johan Santana’s change up is thrown with the exact same motion as Tim Wakefield’s knuckleball, I would deserve to be slapped, as this is one of the most erroneous observations ever to be made about baseball. But what if I was talking about video game baseball? If you strip away the names and likenesses for all of the pitchers in the league, would you still be able to differentiate Carlos Zambrano from Daisuke Matsuzaka, or Tom Glavine from Pedro Martinez? The answer is no.
■ 02/04/08 - Major league Baseball 2k8 It’s that time of year again, when sitting side-by-side some drunken lunatic is nothing but a pleasure while both of you ridiculously cheer on your losing team through another year of disappointment and false hope. You know the feeling we’re talking about, when you watch your team make it all the way to the ALCS/NLCS, only to get swept by the opposition and miss out on the big game completely. That’s probably the best way we can describe Major League Baseball 2K8, developed by 2K Sports Los Angeles, formerly known as Kush Games......
■ 11/03/08 - Major league Baseball 2k8 It takes a lot of guts to open up the engine of a great annual sports game, rebuild its core mechanics, and toss a pile of new features on top of it all. Yet that’s exactly what the fellas at 2K Sports did with MLB 2K8. The result has all the makings of a classic baseball champion - but unfortunately makes a key error that has us all scratching our heads.
