The players also sometimes felt slow to react to the ball.Īfter setting things up, you then get to take to the field to play a few matches as your favourite team and get used to the mechanics before trying out the different game modes on offer. Fielding was the worst for me, as I battled to get used to the controls of which plate to throw at and doing it accurately. You can also customise these systems to each of the three facets of the game, which is batting, pitching and fielding. Gameplay varies from timing a button press to a pure analogue system to a hybrid of the two. I’m not going to go into too much detail on how the mechanics work, but MLB The Show 17 provides enough freedom to make gameplay as easy or challenging as you want it. The tutorial is pretty detailed and can get a bit overwhelming, but luckily it gives you the basics in order to start playing the game and start having some fun. So when I was offered a tutorial on how the MLB The Show 17 works, I jumped at it right away.

I also haven’t played much sport games in recent years. The last time I played a Baseball game was in the early nighties on my knockoff NES console. That said, it’s always been a sport that fascinated me, so I relished the opportunity to give MLB The Show 17 a bash. It has been dramatised and romanticized to death by Hollywood, and that is about the extent of our knowledge.

Baseball is a game that a lot of us here in South Africa know very little about.

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