Triple Play Baseball

by EA Sports

Product Features

• Game has a great soundtrack featuring Chuck D, Vitamin C, and Fastball
• Enhanced A1 - Expert input from Dusty Baker
• 1 - 2 Players

Product Details

• ASIN: B000056WU9
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (82 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,816 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #33 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Sports > Baseball
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

'Tis the season for an extra spring in your step... especially if the bases are loaded and your pathetic excuse of a swing plopped the ball at the pitcher's feet. Even if you haven't been up to bat for a season or two, Triple Play Baseball should whip you back into shape in no time. The series debut on the next-generation system packs the punch everyone expects with accurate player models from the 2001 team rosters, highly detailed renderings of all 30 major league stadiums, realistic lighting and shadows, smooth camera transitions, and a few choice gameplay enhancements to boot.

EA Sports tweaked the interfaces and fielding control to pop the offensive and defensive experience up a few notches. The pitcher/batter interface is updated, allowing players to control a greater range of attributes--from stance, batting angle, and power to pitching angle and speed. In addition to standard play modes for one or two players--Single Game, Season, and Playoffs--Triple Play Baseball features a Big League Challenge mode, challenging 12 Major Leaguers to a home run hitting tournament. Throughout the game, Toronto Blue Jays manager Buck Martinez and Sean McDonough deliver color commentary and play-by-play narration in the series' fine form. --Eric Twelker

Product Description

PS2 Triple Play Baseball - Game Only - No Manual or Case

See all Product Description

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It seems a little rushed, March 20, 2001

By 

"thrawn169" (Tampa, FLORIDA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Triple Play Baseball (Video Game)

Triple Play Baseball has been my favorite since the first one. I've always thought that it was the closest thing to playing baseball inside. In this version for the PS2 I've noticed a few changes

1. Graphics. Pro: Unbeleivable detail with stadiums, you can almost see individual blades of grass. The crowds actually move in this version.The facial features of the players are much improved. And the Gameplay is extremely smooth. Con: Other than the faces, I cannot tell the difference between players like I could in previous versions. You cannot change the batting camera angle, there is just one camera for instant replays, and one camera angle for feilding.

2: Big League Challenge. It's about the same as in TP2001, with the exception of that they took away the Derby with the crazy stadiums and targets. You can no longer hit homeruns in your bedroom. That was a feature I really enjoyed.

3: Rewards and points. I'm actually happy that they removed the points and rewards, I thought they took away from the game. On the PS2, there is nothing to be unlocked anywhere.

4: Injuries and Fatigue. Once again there are no injuries, and now there is kind of no fatigue. What that means is, your starting pitcher will lose speed and accuracy when he tires, but there is no way to warm up another pitcher, all the bullpen pitchers are already warmed up.

5: Batting and Pitching. It's almost a completely new system, but once you get used to it, it's pretty cool. Although I miss having a normal button and a power button for batting and throwing, everything is now done by the pressure sensative X button (pitching power, batting, and throwing power). I still find myself trying to hit the square button to hit a homerun and watching the pitch sail past me.

6: Baserunning. Baserunning is automatic, there is no option to change that. Let's say I hit a line drive to LF and I feel I can pull a double out of it, I can press the up direction and my players will head to second, if I let up on the controller, the computer takes over again and sends my player back to first, kind of annoying.

7. Fielding If you want any control at all over your fielders, you must not be in rookie mode.

These things definately make me think that this game was a tad bit rushed. It seems they spent a lot of time with the batting, pitching, and graphics that they didn't have time to fix the little things, so they left them out. It is an awesome game, but for the first time in a long time, I'll be looking forward to next year's offering and maybe even pick up a different baseball game until then.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Terrible baseball game, March 22, 2001

By 

putangpie6 (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Triple Play Baseball (Video Game)

Triple Play is a horrible game in almost every sence.The batting is way to easy, you'll find that even with the worst hitter on your team you can easily hit above .400. I like simulation type sports games that actually have reasonable stats and games that are realistic. The games are high scoring events were you might score 13 and the cpu will score 10. Homeruns come way to easy in this game and a guy like Pokey Reese can hit just as many homeruns as Griffey. The feilding is maybe the worst i have seen in any baseball game and balls that are hit in to the out feild that are not around the player are pretty much un-catchable. The types of hits that come off the bat are very limited with mostly line drives or just plain ground balls, no grounders that take big hops or even change speed and the animation of the ball in motion is bad. The animation outside of pitching and the batter swinging are pretty ...bad. The graphics when you are batting are pretty nice looking but once that ball is hit watch oooooout, the feilding grafics are horrible and look like they were meant for regular old playstation and the feilders are so little compared to the feild. I do have to give ea props on the feilds tho. Then when feilding you get a huuumoungous target thing and it actually can make you lose the ball because it gets in the way. The sound is good and the only thing that is not really flawed in the game. This game is for those that are not real baseball fans and just want to hit homeruns and have an arcade type game. If you are a sport gamer who likes realistic gameplay then you would definetly not want to get this game... HORRIBLE GAME FOR A SIM FAN WHO LIKES REALISTIC BASEBALL PLAY AND YOU WILL COME TO HATE THE GAME. Good thing i only rented this peice of ... but it was still a waste of 5 dollars because after playing maybe 5 games i was bored to death with it. In the end the only reason i gave this a 2 stars is because the the batters are nicely detailed and the feild out of play looks nice and the sound is the only part i some what enjoyed.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Could have or Should have" been better, March 19, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Triple Play Baseball (Video Game)

I rented the newest baseball and was slightly let down compare to other EA sports titles such as Madden 2001 and Nhl 2001. Those are definite 5 stars, even 6 stars. This game, like NBA 2001, was rushed to the shelves.

This review is written after approx 15 hours of game time.

I'm basing alot of my arguement of what I've seen EA Sports has produced in the past year for PS2 or what Sega Dreamcast did right with World Series 2K1.

Cons: There lack of attention to detail, overall. All the players look the same except for skin tones and a few different facial hair set-ups, there body proportions are also lacking, Mo Vaughn is the same size as Johnny Damon. Randy Johnson with short hair??? Camera view should have had a few more options. No 360 degree rotating camera view like all other EA sports games. for replays. When they do zoom in for a cut away, the players mouths look crazy glued shut, no arguing like in FIFA soccer or NHL 2001, that missing. Distinctive Batting styles like Griffey, Bonds, Bagwell, Sheffield, Batista not included, only McGwire's looks anything like his own. It takes away from the realism 128 bit technology should be able to have captured. What they should have done was do more cutaways of ball going to certain players like outfielders, more of a "telecast kind of feel" that's what was successful with World Series 2k1. I'm not being picky, just honest, this could have been an awesome game if the details were captured.

Pro: Overall the game plays very well, responsive button controls , from pressure sentitive throwing to using the directional circle "Sweet Spot" to hit the ball either on the ground, in the air, or line drives. One of the biggest plus is how easy they have made it to follow the ball in the strike zone, other games in the pass had you "chasing the ball" in the strike zone, This one gives you a general idea where the ball will be pitched, you need to determine the velocity and if it's going to be straight or a "bender". Helps when you are pitching and hitting as well. The lighting effects are very good as well, from night to dusk to day games. The water falls in KC trickle in the background, the fountain in Edison Field shoots off after a homerun. the flags even wave sligthly. The stadium details are 100% accurate, everything from what 's outside a park like Wrigley to the color of the dirt in certain parks like the "white" sand warning track in Atlanta. Running the bases are well designed and easy to control also where you can send a guy from third home, but keep a guy at second on second, it's not the "revolving door" effect. Mutli-team control allowing you to control as many teams you like to play a season mode is a great plus as well. playing one teamin season mode ,at times get boring, you need variety for replay value, Also if you like stats, and I do, this game keeps track of everything from offensive stats to defensive stats.

Maybe we can't have everything, if they just captured some of the the details that makes Madden and NHL 2001 in a class by themselves, and I know they could have, this game would have been be a "5", however when you play it and find out how well the game plays it will have people coming back for more, If the game play of Triple Play Baseball and the graphics of World Series 2K1 were merged we would have the best game ever created, in my opinion.

This is as accurate portrayal of a game you can get if you can get pass the "cons" I mentioned above, it a overall good game.