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Backyard Baseball 2007 | List Price: $19.95
Discount Price: $16.99
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Platform: Windows XP
Brand: Humongous, Inc.
Binding: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2006-09-05
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Features: - Full roster of MLB pros as kids—Albert Pujols, A-Rod, Ichiro, Jeter, Konerko, Ortiz, and more
- All 30 MLB pro teams plus 10 Backyard teams
- Customizable teams, players, fields, and uniforms
- Season play with complete team stats and standing
- Unlockables, power ups, minigames, and surprises
Great gift for the sports fanatic kid! [Posted on 2007-01-09]
I got this for my 8-year old nephew, at the recommendation of another 13-year old nephew. They both love the game! The 8-year old wants the football and basketball versions!
Don't Buy It! [Posted on 2007-01-24]
This product was just horrible in every respect.
Start Up
This game does not install, but instead plays straight off the CD-ROM. I put the disk in the CD-ROM drive, and it spins away, but isn't read. I go online, and there is a feeble help section on the Atari/Humongous site, which basically tells me to update all of my drivers. I update all of the drivers (and I do mean all) and still the disk spins but isn't read. (And no other CD or CD-ROM gives me trouble.) But... strangely, when I put the disk in the DVD drive sometimes the drive reads the disk, and sometimes it doesnt. Either way though, the game will not start up. But, when the DVD drive does read the disk, I am able to navigate through the disk, and double click the program file and start the game.
Game Play
We have several other versions of Backyard Baseball, and this one is just pathetic. Much worse both in terms of game play and graphics than versions 5 years older. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the hitting is very hard to master, so that your child's frustration level soon goes off the chart.
Customer Support
Emailed customer support for help in getting the game to start up normally. Got an automated response that they were migrating their customer support and would be offline for some time. WHO MIGRATES THEIR CUSTOMER SUPPORT DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON?
Then when I do finally get a response from Atari it is to tell me that they no longer support the title and refer me to the Backyard Sports web site. Which has a meager Technical FAQ section, and no way to contact them for further assistance.
This is absolutely the worst PC game and worst customer experience I have ever had in 20+ years of PC gaming.
It's a hit!! [Posted on 2007-03-10]
I bought this for my 6 yr old son and he loves it. I was worried about the reviews I read before purchasing but I had no problems with the product and it has been lots of fun. He plays it everyday...He found it hard the first few times but he has already won the World Series in easy mode after a month. We also have Backyard Hockey 2005 and we love both of them.
great for car trips [Posted on 2007-09-28]
I recommend this fun and creative game with just a couple of caveats: it can burn a lot of time and it eventually becomes boring (i.e. after some months it will collect dust on the shelf).
I bought this game for my 7-year-old son after he thoroughly enjoyed Backyard Soccer. I noticed that the soccer game increased his desire to play the actual outdoor game and his performance on his real soccer team visibly improved. The baseball game has peaked his interest in trying out baseball and he is yearning for summer when he can join a real little league team.
Each game can take a lot of time, and I like to limit my son's time on video games, but I think it is perfect for long car rides. We often drive for 12 hours, and my son can spend much of that time playing just this one game. It is hard to find anything else to occupy his attention for that long.
I think it is fairly challenging, even at the beginning level, but with sufficient practice you can put together a winning team at any level. We also enjoy examining all the statistics, which is what makes baseball an interesting sport.
Two Thumbs Down, Get Backyard Baseball 2005 Instead [Posted on 2008-04-12]
Plainly put this product blatently sucks, sorry, I can almost always find something positive to say about a game but this is just a sorry excuse for a game.
You cannot play with a controller on PC? What kind of baseball game doesn't let you use a controller, I mean a baseball game is perfectly in sync with the layout on a controller, to use a mouse or keyboard to play is ludicrous. I'm sure the other versions (PS2, GBA) use controllers why the heck can't they incorporate that feature into PC?
I love Backyard Baseball 2005 and only bought this to upgrade a bit, thinking they would have improved a few things, but no improvements whatsoever. The field isn't fully visible when you hit the ball, it's near impossible to control fielders with a mouse, using the keyboard to hit a ball is a clunky interface at best, still no network support for multiplayer games?? C'mon it's BB 2007 not 1997.
And what is this business of playing the game direct off of CDROM ? That means updates/patches are never gonna happen, you can't patch a CD Disc, UGHHHH! Pity to the peeps whose CD Rom drives poop out from whirring away for an hour to play this game.
I wish I would have read the other reviews on amazon before I bought this stinker. Please listen to me, the only thing this game would be good for is a birthday present to a kid you don't like very much : ) Sorry I wish I could say better
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