All Star Baseball 2003

by Acclaim

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005V8GS
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 28, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,822 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

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All-Star Baseball 2003 features all-new player models created with 3-D CyberScan technology for one of the most realistic representations of player faces ever seen. Game modes include exhibition, season, career, franchise, expansion, All-Star Game, series, manager, home-run derby, and batting practice. Franchise mode allows users to build their favorite teams for up to 20 consecutive seasons. All-new expansion play lets you choose a city, stadium, and team logo and then add that team to the major leagues. And the expansion draft lets you draft from a pool of unprotected players and build a team from free agents and minor leaguers.

The three-man broadcast booth of Bob Brenly, Thom Brennaman, and Steve Lyons provides in-depth commentary. The Cooperstown Hall of Fame team features such sluggers from the past as Mike Schmidt, Reggie Jackson, and Yogi Berra. All 30 major-league teams and more than 900 players are represented, all with official stadiums, logos, and uniforms. There are more than 50 stadiums from which to choose, including eight classic stadiums and 10 expansion stadiums.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars OH ASB! Where has thou gone?, March 27, 2002

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"luezuve" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Star Baseball 2003 (Video Game)

I've been a huge fan of the All Star Baseball series for quite some time now. I have incredibly fond memories of ASB 2000 and 2001 for the N64. They were the Ali of Baseball Sims. The best. 2000 was great, and 2001 was even better!

Then, the ground fell out.

ASB 2002 for the PS2 was a travesty! A pure, unadulterated travesty. They destroyed the magnificent batting system...Your outfielders ran like they were in tar...and the games took way too long to play.

Now, ASB 2003 is out, which I have played on both GameCube and the PS2. It's better than ASB 2002, but not by much. ASB 2002 gets one star...ASB 2003 gets two.

The batting interface was improved since 2002, but still not as great as 2000 or 2001. At least now you have variable speeds. There's one problem, you CAN'T HIT THE BALL. The pitches...ALL OF THE PITCHES...are too fast. You can either move or swing. You don't have time for both.

Well, they fixed the problems with outfielders running speed. Now they run faster than light! Nice and realistic. I hit (when I luckily make contact with the ball) the ball to someplace there is nobody, within in a milisecond, BOOM, there's an outfielder. It's crazy.

The announcers rarely actually say anything useful, and are sometimes outright wrong. For example, I had a man on first, two men out, and I struck out. "He strikes out with bases loaded!" Ummm, I never even got to second, let alone third. Furthermore, there's no umpire. I never know when I've pitched a strike or a ball until the display comes back up.

What I did like: The graphics. They were great. That's about it.

Save your money for ASB 2004, maybe. Why do video game companies do this? Acclaim had the best baseball game ever, and now they have the worst. How does that happen?

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great game, but a MAJOR problem, March 10, 2002

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Brian Rosenberg (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Star Baseball 2003 (Video Game)

I gotta tell you, I'm pretty much addicted to this game. Everything about the gameplay is very realistic and the graphics are intense. It takes a little getting used to, but its worth the time.

But, there is one major problem. This is a quote from the booklet..."WARNING: You cannot save Franchise or Expansion mode games using current Memory Cards...Mid Season Franchise or Expansion requires 1 File and 153 Blocks to save. Current Memory Cards have a capacity of 59 blocks."

You CANNOT Franchise or create an Expansion team! I think that is a major negative for this game. If you buy this game, I would highly suggest getting the new Gamecube 16X Memory Card... it is an extra [item price], but it will be very worth it for this game, and, I'm sure, future games will have the same issue. That card has something like 1000+ blocks, so you won't ever need to buy a new card again.

Hope this helps.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost as good as the real thing!, March 15, 2002

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J. D. Sinclair "jidabug" (Oregon USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Star Baseball 2003 (Video Game)

The graphics in this game are so realistic, during replays I almost forgot I was watching a computer game and not a real one. The details are simply wonderful, base runners wiping out the second baseman while sliding, broken bats, etc. Great stuff!

However, the navigational menus and on-screen pitch selectors are pretty hard to read. There are a lot of tiny little words on a huge screen and you really need to squint to see them. I'm sure that after playing it for a while I won't need to rely so much on the selector, but it's giving me eye-strain in the meantime.

The most disappointing thing for the moment, though, is that the game requires a huge amount of memory to be saved. It's very frustrating that I'll need to get another, larger, memory card just for this game. But I will go ahead and get the card, because the Franchise and Expansion modes sound so cool, I simply have to. It makes me think that Acclaim is in cahoots with the memory card manufacturers.

That aside, the game play and graphics are worth the price of the game alone.