![]() The audio in the game is ok but nothing special. The presentation could also use many improvements as the menus are very clunky to navigate. Looking at the graphics as an entire package it feels like they could have done more with it. ![]() The animations are good and pretty smooth. The game contains the full MLB license so all of the stadiums are there, but pretty much all of the players look the same small bodies and big heads. It is a lighter take on baseball and it is enjoyable to see the pudgy little players run around. The graphics in the game are pretty good, and I do really enjoy the art style of the game. The mode was a huge disappointment and was very boring. Besides the cut scenes you can sparsely manage your player by buying new equipment, practicing baseball, going on a date, or studying. Essentially that is the end of the mode with a win or a loss and the whole mode was about 2 hours long. They only let you bat once and you have to come back and win. I played for about 2 hours and finally they let me play the last game of my college career. It turns out that the entire mode is just anime dialogue scenes with very little baseball content. In this mode you take a created player and follow him through college and into the major leagues. What I thought was going to be the meat of the game is a mode called Success Mode. There is also a tournament mode in the game which just takes 6 teams and puts them into a tournament. I wish there was an option to make the season shorter but there isn't one. The mode boils down to playing games over and over, and I got about 20 games in before i really didn't want to play it anymore. Along the way you can trade players with other teams, sign free agent players, increase players stats, and manage the financial aspects of the team. As with any baseball game there is a franchise/season mode where you control a team and guide them through the 162 game mlb schedule. On the main menu screen in Power Pros it appears there are a lot of different modes to play, but when boiled down there really isnt much content in the game. Overall the gameplay can be really fun and there are a lot of options to make it easier or more challenging. I preferred to use the nuncheck version even though the stiffness of the joystick made me commit many fielding errors in the games. ![]() There are many control styles that can be used for the game including the gamecube controller, just the wii remote, and the wii remote/nunchuck combo. ![]() A power swing can be used by pressing the B button, and it makes the batting cursor smaller but the ball will travel further. The batting is pretty easy if you leave the pitching cursor on for the opponent, but if you take it off the hitting can be a real challenge. The batting is the funner of the two aspects of the game, as you have to line up a batting cursor with the opponents pitch. The pitching is fairly straightforward and very easy to grasp. Pitching is executed by moving a baseball cursor around the home plate area while selecting what type of pitch you want to throw using the d-pad or control stick on the wii nunchuck and pressing A to throw the pitch. The core gameplay in Power Pros is good and fun to play. The game mixes baseball simulation with a lighter presentation into a solid but very shallow game. MLB Power Pros released in 2007 and developed by Konami is a cutesy baseball game that has had a long running franchise in japan.
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