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Rating Reviewed by: JVC(Unregistered User)
Review Date March 14, 2003
Overall Rating 4 of 5
Review NaN of 3
, from Seattle, WA
Summary: This was a great game. I say was, because Sierra stopped making sports games. Why? Who knows. After FPS Football 2000, which they recalled, they gave up the whole sports division. Madden took over for football, and sports simulation suffered. Overall, this game had all of the stuff Sierra was famous for. Full season, draft, camp, watching players develop, getting lots of stats, retire. It also had a lot of bugs. The most infuriating was the one where the game would crash at the very end when you would flip back to the stats screen, meaning you had to replay the game. They never fixed this. The second bug was that in the draft, the same players (names, positions, etc) would appear. So eventually, you had the same players on different teams in the league.
Rating Reviewed by: Kevin Michael Days(Unregistered User)
Review Date October 26, 1999
Overall Rating 4 of 5
Review NaN of 3
, from Ithaca, NY
Summary: Front Page Sports Baseball Pro 98 is a good looking baseball game. Now, I don't go in for arcade style baseball simulations and I am not committed to faithfully reproducing past seasons, but I do enjoy creating a fantasy league with fantasy players. If this is your idea of fun, then FPSBB98 is for you. There is a weath of options available. You can alter just about anything you can think of. If you want to be just the field manager, you can leave the GM duties to the computer. If you want you can control every conceiviable option, from signing free agents, drafting high school players to setting your pitching rotation. This is a serious baseball game for the serious baseball fan.Now, having said that, I must also point out some of the problems with the game. It can be slow with all of the details turned on. I have a P133 with 32 megs of RAM and the first play can take nearly ten seconds to complete. I believe that this is due to the need to load the animations into RAM. It does seem to get better after the first play. Another problem is the user interface. The follks at Sierra need to work better at designing an user-friendly interface. It takes a large number of clicks to get information that should be at the tips of your fingers. I also found the way in which information was displayed to be slightly confusing. On the other hand, it does come with a hardcopy manual, which could be better organized.Overall, I think this game is a strong addtion to the field of computer baseball.
Summary: First off, let me say that I play this game ONLY in simulation mode and NEVER in arcade mode so I can not judge its usability in that mode. When I first got the game, I thought it looked and played quite realistically and well until some bugs started to become apparent. Such as, the computer resetting your lineups after each game, stats not being saved correctly and too many crashes.Then, after about six months, a patch arrived from Sierra which addressed and corrected most issues. It made the game playable. The stats generated are quite close to the mark and, as always with the FPS series of games, the career feature is its most extraordinary feature. Seeing how a rookie develops over the course of his career is both fascinating and rewarding, especially if he was some lowly ranked college draft that you had a 'gut feeling' about.I've played just about every baseball sim out there. This one comes close to being the best all round game though I am heavily swayed by the brilliant career feature. APBA Baseball For Windows (now up to Version 5) is quite simply the most in-depth baseball strategy game available. But, if you haven't already guessed, I just love the career mode that FPS Baseball offers.If you're into baseball simulations and management, this is THE game.
4 of 5
