MLB SlugFest 20-03 (Xbox)

Other products by Midway Games

Product Features

• Platform: Xbox
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Genre: Sports

Product Details

• ASIN: B000067861
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,605 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

MLB SlugFest 20-03 features exaggerated, supercharged baseball action. With real Major League Baseball players, teams, and stadiums, the game puts the emphasis on adrenaline and over-the-top plays. Enormous, muscle-bound players take the field and perform incredible defensive plays, including acrobatic, diving catches and turbo-powered throws. While at the plate, gamers can dig in and unleash a mammoth blast clear out of the park. The animations are detailed to the point where you can view players on the field chewing gum, talking to one another, and cheering for their teammates. The game sets the tone with an original baseball anthem, "Riot at the Bat Rack," by the heavy metal group Dry Kill Logic.

Product Description

The summertime game just got smokin'. MLB SlugFest 2003 and Alex Rodriguez ignite America'snational pastime with a torrid blend of aggressive, adrenaline-style action and authentic Major League Baseball credentials. Like a fastball high and tight, this game will stir things up. Take control of all of your favorite Major League Baseball teams and players armed with all of their real stats, attributes, abilities and attitudes. Once you're ready for the show, sharpen your spikes and take the field in a shot-of-adrenaline baseball.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect antidote for boring (XBox) baseball games!, September 5, 2002

By	Bryce D. Butler (Edgewater, MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Let's face it: playing baseball on any video system can be painfully boring. Baseball is best played or viewed in person. For the average joe who is not a stat-tracking or rotisserie-playing baseball fan MLB Slugfest 20-03 on XBox fills the void by juicing up the game with more sharp hits, faster pitching, and exaggerated gameplay. This game, complete with Midway's "Turbo" function, is mostly for the fan that enjoys an offensive game filled with homeruns. Perhaps the greatest thing is that you can pick up this game not needing to know which team in the majors has the best pitching or batting and play for a half-hour quick fix. Also, you can beat, ahem, "hard tag" your favorite overpaid major league player on the basepaths. I'm hoping Midway adds a "hard tag" team owner or league commissioner function to next year's game, but I digress.

Games are customizable between 4-9 innings there's quickplay, 52 game season, and the classic Midway (TM) beat all the teams on the game mode. The only real drawback on this game is that the rosters are fixed at 12-13 (the latter for American League DH's) players so there's no pinch hitting or subbing runners.

Pitchers work off the mound with four specialty pitches and can juice their pitching with the "Turbo" button for otherworldly speed and movment. For example Seattle pitcher Jamie Moyer tosses a fastball on this game about 15 MPH faster than he can in real life. You can change pitchers but only 2 relievers are available. Pitchers can also bean batters to lower their attributes (hitting, power, speed). Don't be surprised if your ERA ends up in the double digits. Fielding is made easier by simply shifting you infield/outfield during pitch selection with the D-Pad. Fielding and throwing the ball is frustrating at first but can be quickly picked up. As a nice touch Midway uses the right thumbstick for direct throws to all of the bases (with Turbo of course).

The hitting makes the game. Every ball can be hit no matter how far out of the strike zone. It is simply a matter of timing. You can choose between contact, power, or bunting with the requisite drawbacks to each and you must wisely use your turbo to hit and advance runners. Sitting at the plate with Barry Bonds you can lift the ball out off the park with ease (and Turbo) and he'll stand at the plate to watch it fly out of the park then trot around the basepath. Homeruns are shown in several perspectives and not just in replay. If the homerun ball is hit well the game often moves from the hitter to pitcher perspective to follow the ball itself into the stands. Slugfest lets you know when you've hit it well. Perhaps the coolest feature of hitting is the on fire mode. The first two hitters on a team that go 2 for 2 get set on fire increasing their abilitiesn at the plate and in the field.

MLB Slugfest is for the occasional baseball fan who does not live for stats or heavy strategy but the sheer joy of baseball. Some may find the brawling aspects of this game distateful but the game is overall good clean (enhanced) fun. If you enjoy easy hitting and baseball for the simple fun of it this is the game for you.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Fire fun!!!, August 24, 2006

By	Dubyac99 "MC White" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

My five year old son likes this game, cuz it's got fire! I like it, cuz its kind of goofy and funny. I'm actually surprised that Barry Bonds agreed to be in this one. Then again, its one of the few games that he's in, and is represented as a Steroids freak, just like most of this motley crew is.

I like the commentary, and that you can do bean balls. I like when the players start to burn. That's pretty funny.

I would recommend this one!

MC White said; You're on fire, dawg!

1.0 out of 5 stars ce jeu est une joke, April 1, 2004

By	"azura332" (montreal, Québec Canada) - See all my reviews

ce jeu est une vraie farce , on ne peut meme pas charger de lanceur comme on veut , meme chose pour les frappeurs. pas du tout comme le vrai baseball. je ne le recommande pas du tout.