Well, he is right, according to Metacritic.

According to gamerankings he's wrong.

So he's kinda right.

And kinda wrong.

But MLB 08 the show is a hell of a baseball game.

you gotta take the reviews with a grain of salt.

i find it better to take the median than the mean, due to a-clowns like G4 that rate 2k (which everybody else rated well below the show) 33% higher than the show and bring its avg. down.

Its not even fair to rate Power Pros in the same league as The Show, IMO though they are both baseball oriented, they are two completely seperate types of games.

Have you ever played Power Pros?  It's extremely deep.  It earned its score very well.

i think you might have missed my point.  I have played power pros and enjoyed it a lot.  You are right, it definately earned its score.  However, I don't feel like you can compare the two (The Show; Power Pros) just because they both are baseball games.  Its almost like trying to compare Mario Kart and GT, both games are great, both are racing, but you simply can't compare them.  They are too different and are trying to do two completely sepearate things.

Fair enough Stockstar.

Power Pros was more of an arcade game than a baseball sim. The Show is by far the best sim around, and before that it was a tie between The Show 07 and EA's MVP 05. I'm an avid baseball sim fan, so I've been around baseball games. This thread is pointless though. Quit treating critics' reviews as mandates. I think The Show is better because it's gone in more depth than any other baseball sim to date.

 Oh why did we have to get Tejada... >_<

get Tejeda back on the 'roids he was taking in Oakland and he will do good again. Hasn't he been a bit injury prone lately? After not missing a game for the first several years of his career.

man half ya neva even played power pros ya fronting mlb 08 is better and the best baseball game to m was mvp 2005

I don't know. The Graphics certaintly aren't sim... but the physics are some of the best i've seen in a baseball game.

Better then 2K and The show of 07. So Show 08's swing physics would have to be vastly improved to be as close sim wise.

The AI tends to go in power mode a bit too much, but if you mess around with the settings you can hit a good balance for stats and make the game harder.

Furthermore the skill system Power Pros has makes the players actually play more like the players which is something every other baseball game seems to lack... they characters personalties play through more then a simple "clutch" stat does. It allows for different situations to increase or decrease the how each player plays.

You know that "risky" closer is probably going to get a hit or two before he gets the save... which in a lot of games just still isn't able to be represented for some reason. 

That Skill system is really something that should be fully adapted to all sports games.