Amazon Maximum Age: 17 years Amazon Minimum Age: 72 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Midway EAN: 0031719198566 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Midway Entertainment Manufacturer: Midway Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Platform: GameCube Publisher: Midway Entertainment Sales Rank: 10561 Studio: Midway Entertainment
Product Description: The game of summer just got smokin'. MLB SlugFest 20-03 and Alex Rodriguez ignite America's national 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.
Amazon.com Review: Who needs realism? While all the other guys slave away every year to make their sports games as realistic as possible, Midway has gleefully chosen to make the wildest, most violent, and arguably most fun sports games you can buy. Topselling games like NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz, and NBA Jam are annual tweaks on the nose of sports gaming, yet Midway has kept the games close enough to the real sports they model to justify the expense of real player and team licenses. MLB SlugFest is no exception. It’s a Three Stooges-style romp into Major League Baseball, and it's crazy fun.
Imagine our National Pastime with Bugs Bunny-style pitching, runners who think nothing about clocking the First Basemen to extend their hit into a double, and hot players who burst into flame when they're on a roll. If a pitch hits the batter he either charges the mound like the Hulk on speed, or he cries and crawls to take his base. Everything is outrageous and exaggerated, yet beyond the cartoon antics is a real game where skill with pitching and batting can carry you to victory.
All of the major league's players, stadiums, teams, and logos are in the game, letting you really put the smack down on your least favorite team or force a perennial loser to play like brutes. A home run derby mode lets you practice hitting the long ball. One highlight is the commentary, which is hilarious. It consists of one smart guy calling the plays, setting up a gravel voiced idiot for some off the wall comment. Whether it’s speculating how many candles you’d have to melt to make a wax Babe Ruth, or complaining about the taste of his third Styrofoam cup, the commentary is fresh, funny, and it takes quite a while before it gets old.
Solid baseball gameplay and strategy--amped up and turned all the way to "11"--is what MLB SlugFest offers players. It's a great way to spend a nice spring day; mix in a little violence and flaming baseballs with your peanuts and Crackerjack.--Andrew S. Bub
Pros:
Great graphics and hilarious audio
Solid baseball gameplay beneath the silly gimmicks
Especially fun when played with a buddy
Cons:
Computer player uses too many crazy pitches and abilities.
Amazon.com Product Description: MLB SlugFest 20-03 offers exaggerated, supercharged baseball action. Featuring 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 mammoth blasts 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," performed by the heavy metal group Dry Kill Logic.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Home Run!!!
To really be honest with you, I really enjoy a whole lot of sports classics that have came out for the Nintendo Gamecube. Arguably, there just could've been a little more when it comes to baseball. I see so much more with football classics like EA's Madden, and basketball classics like NBA Street. However, I really haven't seen all that much for baseball. Midway has really changed all that for the better. Since their days creating such wild and wacky games like NBA Jam, and NFL Blitz, they bring more outragousness with out of the ordinary acrade sports games. Now, they have really outdone themselves.
MLB Slugfest 2003 for the Nintendo Gamecube, is a wild and extreme baseball classic. You have all of the great classic teams of baseball like Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, and the Florida Marlins, compete in baseball gone haywire. In this game, the baseball game goes beyond traditional, with wild pitches, and moves where you can have the pitcher actually hit the batter as a option. The graphics are outstanding, as well as all the great stadiums like Fenway Park, The Kingdome, and Shea Stadium, being graphically showcased well. The control is a bit shaky at first with trying to get the right camera angles especially, but it is very easy to actually pick up with a little practice. The game goes beyond ordinary with bonuses like hidden stadiums to unlock, and other attributes. The game also delivers in traditional exhibition, season, and tournament modes.
Even though Midway has really hit it off, it is just a shame they haven't put out a great sports game like this, considering more of them are placed for the Playstation 2, and Xbox. Still, MLB Slugfest 2003, is a true delight for anybody who really loves the world of baseball on the Nintendo Gamecube.
Graphics: B+
Sound: B 1/2-
Control: B
Fun & Enjoyment: B 1/2+ solo: A with someone else to play with
Overall: B+
Rating: - WHERE'S MY GAME?
my mommom ordered slug fest for my birthday but the guy never sent it to her and i really love baseball so much.
(ROBERT)
MARIE CIAFRE PHILADELPHIA,PA.
ORDERED GAME FROM AMAZONJOE212, NO ANSWER FROM E-MAIL AND NO GAME REC'D........
Rating: - This game is proof that Jesus died in Vain
I have never seen a product this aweful... a baseball game where the players fight on the bases? Ridiculous. A game where it is virtually impossible to hit the ball, and any hit you get goes stright into the fielders glove? Unbelievable. This is the worst game I have ever played. Thank god I rented this, because if I had purchased it I would have to shoot myself.
Rating: - Incredible!
When I first tried this game, I really liked it. The graphics were very good. I thought it was a little funny when the commentators talk sometimes before the game. Sometimes the batter might even beat up the pitcher if he gets hit! That was a part I didn't like. The batters will also get fired up if they're 2 for 2 in a game or if they beat up the pitcher. You can even punch the person that's right next to you! I thought that was a little funny. You can even make great diving and leaping catches look impossible. People who like NFL Blitz 2000 or NFL Blitz 2001 should like this game. The three games are similar.
Rating: - WOW! That is hardcore!
When I first play ed MLB Slugfest I was facing my cousin. I hadn't played the game yet so he killed me! But if you get hit with the ball than if you get mad enough you'll cahrge the mound become covered with fire and beat the pitcher up. When you slide to second try to punch him so that he will drop the ball and head to the next base. If you play this game you will have fun if you like to hit people. This is such a good game I still beg my mom to buy it for me!
- WHERE'S MY GAME?
- WOW! That is hardcore!
