by  Jooka
from Kyoto, , Japan | Jul 10, 2003 |
General/Summary: Baseball Mogul 2003 is one of the finest games I have ever played. This game is different and unique from any game I ever played. Most games require hand-eye coordination and half a brain, and this one is all about strategy. I can recall in MLB 2002 trading Randy Johnson for Freddy Garcia and John Halama, but on Baseball Mogul, other factors come in besides their present talent level. Age, salary, and length of contract come in.
Gameplay: Baseball Mogul 2003 is the ideal game for all control freaks. You control everything. You can't decide what brand of car each player has, but you do control everything relative to the game. Move your team, change ticket and concession prices, and improving your Farm System, Scouting, and Medical Staff are among the things you change. And of course, you deal with the players. There is a strange system of points in this game, and I have estimated each point equals around 250 thousand dollars, because guys who make the minimum 250K earn one point a year. The best feature in my opinion is underachievers and overachievers. I play lots of Madden 2002 for the Playstation, and when you draft a guy rated 80 (a pretty high total for a rookie), he will be good, no question about it. On this, for active and fake players, guys will consistently hit below the Mendoza line or go 4-11 despite being praised as MVP-caliber players. For example, Michael Cuddyer, a current Twins farmhand, went in the Hall with 100 percent votes in one game, and never hit 100 homers in another, while there was 700 something in the HOF game. One strange feature to say the least is lack of some players with real names. I changed all the names on them, because all first and last names begin with the letter after (example: Leo Larue is Mark McGwire, Rich Ahlert is Scott Brosius). But the best feature is stat tracking, because stats are tracked for every player.
Graphics: I guess I can not rip on the graphics of this game, because there are very few. There are pictures for many players, including some hidden ones you get when you change their names. When you select play by play, there are cheap animations that look like something Atari made, but they are not bad, just not advanced. Fake players get generic pictures that look like blurry pictures of real players, I have noticed that they really are.
Sound: Sound, like graphics is also minimal. On play by play, there is sounds for homers and for the crowd cheering, and you hear fireworks after a good season. The sounds aren't great, but in this game, they really should not be.
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