For new baseball video game players, the impulse to swing at every pitch is very real, so doing your best to read the pitches as they leave the pitchers hand is more important than ever before. Having a variety of fielding options, however, makes MLB The Show 17 more accessible than ever before!īating can be one of the harder – and obviously much more fun – aspects of MLB The Show 17. For experienced players, it might be the added challenge necessary to make MLB The Show more difficult, but for a newbie like myself, I stayed with the modern controls throughout my reviewing experience.
There are other fielding options as well, that become more difficult but ultimately make the game more realistic. It’s a wonderful game play mechanic for new players, especially when you can just focus on throwing the player out at first base. Once you move your player into the path of the ball and pick it up – or catch it – the game will automatically throw to the base you preset. Once a ball is hit, you can preset your throw by holding down the corresponding base button. There are variety of different fielding options you can preset when you first load up MLB The Show I like the modern controls were each base gets mapped to one of the 4 face buttons. It’s all very daunting when you first get going, but thanks to some outstanding ‘tutorials’ and gradual difficulty increases, MLB The Show does a great job of catering to new players, while maintaining the accurate baseball experience for all players. When you aren’t in the field worrying about completing double plays and cutting off runner with a well timed throw, you are at the plate, palms sweating, as you attempt to hit a wackload of different pitch types.
Fortunately, I was pleasantly surprised.īaseball is actually a fairly complex sport. With that, I jumped into MLB The Show 17 fully expecting to be in way over my head. With a slight appreciation for baseball – the lesser of the main sports in my opinion – I knew the next step was giving the ultimate baseball video game a go. I’m not a huge baseball fan to be sure, but ever since my local Toronto Blue Jays have decided to be good, I’ve paid more attention to them, and the sport, than ever before.