I bought this on impulse last year because I like baseball games and it was only 20$ or so at the time. It turned out to be the best decision I made gaming wise the entire year.
My title is a little misleading. It implies that you have to like weird Japanese stuff to like this game. That is far from true. It is certainly a plus if you enjoy JRPGs or story based games in general. This is because the best mode by is Success mode, which is a story driven character creation. I spent probably 90% of my time making characters on this game, trying to get them to be as good as possible. This mode alone is worth the price of the game.
Other than that you have a standard "franchise" mode which they call season (even though you can do 10 seasons), a life mode which is pretty much like the career mode in other MLB games (you only control your player, some off the field minor decisions), single game and various mini games.
The players may look adorable but there is some serious baseball to be had in this game. The AI is decent and the player ratings system is one of the best ever. You cannot hit bombs with David Eckstein left and right, and it would be hard to bat .350 with Giambi over a season (on a reasonable difficulty).
The Japanese love their baseball and that passion oozes from this game and the previous one. I'm so glad that 2k brought this series stateside.Get more detail about MLB Power Pros 2008.
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