'Major League Baseball 2K8' Strikes Out Looking

My apologies to the fine folks at 2K Sports in taking so long to post my review of their baseball sim MLB 2K8, but honestly it has taken me this long to try and figure out their new pitching mechanism. This glitch-ridden and almost unusable new mechanic makes playing this game as frustrating as your worst workday of the year. After a month or so of trying to get this new technique down and throwing countless "meatballs" I simply gave up and reverted to last year's pitching scheme. The new system is supposed to mimic how the actual pitch is thrown but has a serious learning curve and flat out doesn't work most of the time. Unless I am a complete idiot (which is debatable), I would have to imagine that most other gamers have had the same experience with this piece of crap "improvement." The new fielding mechanism isn't much better and the new batting system only works on the power swing and doesn't even respond to the contact swing. Lame!

With this being the only baseball sim available for the Xbox 360 I am seriously regretting and reconsidering my decision to buy an Xbox 360 instead of the PlayStation3. I was disappointed that I had to purchase two PlayStation2s due to their shoddy craftsmanship which further pushed me toward the Microsoft machine. I have always been a huge fan of Sony's The Show franchise and it makes me sad (literally, no kidding, I am really upset) that I have denied myself this gaming experience with my now poor decision to go with the Xbox 360. This is the equivalent of football fans being denied access to Madden. Or self-denied as is the case here. Looks like I'll be hitting my local video game store very soon and picking up a PSP and a new copy of The Show.