
Officially licensed by MLB, MiLB and the MLBPA, OOTP 20 is a baseball & strategy gaming fan's dream come true and the only game ever to win the Metacritic PC Game of the Year Award TWICE. Out of the Park Baseball 20 - Twenty Years of Excellence!
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great sim game - very realistic
If sports business simulation is your thing, there is no substitute for this game. I played Baseball Mogul from '98-'10, and was an extreme hold out, here. In 2014 I took the plunge, and have bought the new version of this game every two years, since. When I see the massive sale they always run on 'last years' model', I snap it up to covert all my old save files up the chains. I have several teams that have been going for ~ 100 years. Heavy recommend. You won't get to actually swing at pitches, but you can slow play the sim, control the decisions in the game. The granularity of business detail is quite astonishing.
I do enjoy this game quite a bit. As someone who enjoys the history of sports, this game introduces me to many baseball players I was unaware played. I find myself frequently looking up players and learning about their contributions to the game. The game is also enjoyable and easy to pick up on. It is not a game for gamers looking to use controllers and have vivid graphics. It involves just as much managing your lineup and your team and its contracts as it does playing games. I would recommend this to anyone who is passionate about baseball and likes fantasy sports leagues and simulation games.
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OOTP 20 makes continual improvements to the highly in-depth and well-polished baseball simulation experience from the previous games. Menus have gotten small graphical upgrades, stats are more detailed and comprehensive, 3D animations have been refined, and much more. If you like the previous OOTP games, you'll enjoy this one.
The gameplay of Out of the Park Baseball is fantastic - it's really fun to virtually manage a baseball team. However: this game is still being sold even though the servers have been shut down. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FOR LINUX SUPPORT: The Linux version is completely broken and will fail with "Error, unable to continue...". I posted on the forums and asked about this (after having to pass multiple human verification checks) and OOTP had been purchased by a new development company and no one has any idea about Linux, so there's no way they are fixing this. Awesome gameplay, but ootp20 servers are shut down and the client is barely functional. Don't spend money on this.
A lot of fun. Have learned a lot more about baseball statistics through the game as well.
The out of the park series is incredible. The first one I tried was '12 I think. It was a gift from my brother who thought it'd be up my alley. I installed it (CD-ROM!) and fired it up. My first reaction was that I though it was overwhelming. I tried to start unemployed and work my way up and I got lost almost immediately. I came back to it a few months later and decided to start as GM of the Orioles (my ultimate life goal) and after a few hours getting acquainted with all of the screens and info (to my fellow baseball stat nerds please believe me you will not be disappointed) I was off. Since then I have been thoroughly addicted to multiple iterations of OOTP. If you are looking for a game where you play as a big leaguer and actually hit or pitch this is not that game. In game play you are limited to giving the hitter the sign to hit away, hit & run, bunt, take a pitch, etc. You are perhaps even more limited while pitching (pitch to, pitch away, pitch out, pick off). But the magic in OOTP lies in the off the field management. To anyone that dreams as I do of running their favorite ball club this game is everything you could want in as much detail as you would like. You can be George Steinbrenner signing the big free agents or you can be Branch Rickey micromanaging your rookie league teams. You can scour the amateur ranks for draft picks (OOTP has an impressive library of real upcoming draft picks) and build your team up through the draft. You can scour the minor leagues and find diamonds in the rough (anecdotally I can think of several instances of prospects that were highly regarded in OOTP before they were by ESPN or MLB). If you have ever dreamed of running a big league ball club this is absolutely the game for you.
I think the best way to describe OOTP21 is to say it is very in-depth, plenty to try, and completely immeersive.
A baseball sim wonder ... has all the components that make baseball itself so wonderful ... there will be times of joy and times of desk pounding frustration. Now, I've enjoyed playing this game for the last 7 years and my save game campaign had over 600+ hours in it. Unfortunately quite suddenly the game crashed, it disconnected from the data folder and reset to default and my league files disappeared. I swallowed hard and decided to start over, go fresh with a fresh install and all that but it continues to crash on startup looking for the league files in a folder that no longer exist. You can only change settings inside the game and you can't boot the game. Important to know, this is the only reason that I won't be playing this title anymore and will look into one of the newer versions of this title. Great game, will pull you in and let you do everything that a micromanger loves to do.
Awesome game fun for e 10+
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