The 2004 installment in Acclaim's long-running baseball series. The game features more than 80 new features and improvements, including a deeper, more customizable franchise mode. The biggest change comes in the interface. You still hit the same buttons to swing, bunt, steal, and field, but the batting cursor has been visually altered. It's still the same triangle shape as before, just with a different outline. Bunting is more unique, though. Instead of aiming the cursor when you go to bunt, a large arrow points on the ground. Aim your bunt in the desired direction and hope for the best. Fielding has also received a slight change, with the ball cursor changing color. Four up to four players.
Every year, stories come out of spring training about the aging veteran trying to prove he still belongs on the team. This year's video game version of that graybeard would be Acclaim's All-Star Baseball 2004. The series has been around for a while and is definitely starting to show its years. Instead of rebuilding from the ground up, though, like EA Sports did in transforming its aging Triple Play series into the flashy MVP 2003, the folks at Acclaim decided to keep its franchise alive by adding on. Did they do enough, or is this venerable franchise ready for retirement? Read More »
Release Region: United States
Release Date: February 28, 2003
Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment
Also available on: Game Boy Advance, Xbox, PC, PlayStation 2
240 Blocks (Franchise)
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