Recent reviews by BadMofo

I personally think it's a pretty great game. A lot of negative reviews, but honestly it's pretty good. Doesn't have next gen graphics, but personally that's got a deal breaker for me. Then again, I got it on sale deeply discounted. Might not have payed full price for it. Also this is my first NBA 2K game I've played in YEARS, so it's fresh to me. If you play it every year, it probably feels like a very expensive roster update.

A couple of issues would be that sometimes the players seem to drift independent of the control stick input, seems like they're sliding on ice or something. Also I get pretty frequent errors when updates come through. I often have to verify game files and restart the update.

A fun and fairly easy point and click game. Nowhere near as punishing as the golden age Sierra or even Lucasarts games. This is a good one for people who like something to casually play in their downtime, or for beginners to the genre that want to get a feel for it. Played it with my 8 year old and we both really liked it.

The main thing this game has going for it is that MLB The Show isn't available for PC yet. It's not awful, but it launched with some serious glitches that I don't really understand how they weren't ironed out before launch. I use a PS4 controller and have a lot of issues with it: If I connect my controller before launching the game, neither of my triggers work at all, and there is AWFUL input lag/dropped input. If I start the game first and THEN connect my controller, everything works perfectly. You can also disconnect/reconnect the controller to get it working while in game. They need to patch it so this isn't necessary, but in the meantime it seems to be a consistent work around.

The animations are really bad. There are catches made while players aren't under the ball, or diving stops where it hits your ankles but end up in your gloves, etc. Throws are made with the players arm facing one direction and the ball going the complete opposite direction... it's really a mess.

There also seems to be some weird glitches: I've had a couple of foul balls hit where I didn't even swing the bat. I also had a runner get CLEARLY picked off while stealing, and it came up and just said "Safe" while he was still standing like 5 feet off the bag.

On the positive side, it's a baseball game with fairly good looking graphics and it's officially licensed so you are using real ball players instead of goofy big headed avatars. The stadiums look good too. It's still pretty fun as far as arcadey sorts of baseball games go, and I'm hoping it improves over time with patches (but really... how do you release a game with broken controller support??? I'm not alone with this issue). I still recommend it because the price is pretty fair, and because if you like baseball games (and not management games), this is the one to get (until if/when MLB The Show comes out on PC... and then maybe it's a tougher decision).

I'd give it a solid 6.5/10 as-is, but would bump that up to 7/10 if the controllers were better at launch (or once they are patched), and then maybe even an 7.5/10 once the glitchy anomalies are cleaned up. If the animations were cleaner it'd get a whole 8! But I find that to be unlikely lol.

The whole game industry requires more QA/QC in my opinion...... preaching to the choir I'm sure.

This and its predecessor (Counter-Strike 1.6) are the best multiplayer FPS games ever created. It's not up for debate... seriously. Sure, there are games that are more realistic, there are games that look better, there are games that move faster, etc... but this is seriously still the single best multiplayer shooter ever created.