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MLB Slugfest 20-03
Developer: Black Box Games
Publisher: Midway Sports
Console: GameCube
Genre: Sports
Number of Players: 4
Release Date (USA): Summer 2002
ESRB Rating: E
Features
- Adrenaline-style Gameplay - Over-the-top action featuring fast-action batter/pitcher interface, leaping, diving and wall-climbing catches, screaming liners, mammoth deep drives and the fastest game of baseball you've ever seen.
- MLB Authenticity - Real teams, real players, real stadiums, real stats and real player attributes and attitudes.
- Fantasy Players and Stadiums - Bolster your line-up with the animals of the SlugFest diamond or take your game into exotic locations.
- Real Player Faces - Unbelievably detailed faces, right down to expressions. You'll even see them chewing gum.
- Multiple Player Models - Sensational player models that feature different body styles.
- Control - Intuitive, fast-action, adrenaline-style controls.
- Dynamic Camera Angles - Capture all the backhand grabs, head-turning gappers and brushback pitches.
- Animations - More then 1,500 outrageous, over-the-top animations that feature your favorite MLB players performing as they only dream they could.
- Licensed Music - Explosive music from metal rock band Dry Kill Logic, including its all-new, millennium rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," as well as music from the electronica band, Curve.
- Extra DVD Content - Experience Dry Kill Logic's exclusive SlugFest music video, "Riot at the Bat Rack!"
- MLBP & MLBPA Licenses - All of your favorite teams, players and stadiums to compete and dominate with.
Company Line / Game Summary
Take control of all of your favorite Major League Baseball teams and players armed with all of their real stats, attributes, abilities and attitude. Midway Sports takes this all-star lineup over-the-top. Once you're ready for the "show," sharpen your spikes and take the field in the most exciting and aggressive baseball videogame ever, MLB SlugFest 20-03.
 "This is a game that will be equally enjoyed by longtime fans of the sport, as well as action gamers," said Helene Sheeler, vice president of marketing, Midway. "MLB SlugFest 20-03 features real MLB action along with over-the-top gameplay like no other baseball videogame on the market."
My Take
I have been waiting for a good arcade baseball game since Ken Griffey, Jr.’s Slugfest on the N64. MLB Slugfest goes beyond what Griffey’s game had though. You can even run over the players in the field when they are trying to catch the ball! Bean batters by the press of a button, and home plate collisions are featured in the game. I am really excited about the inclusion of heavy metal band Dry Kill Logic to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". It’s about time a heavy metal band gets some recognition!
Anticipation: 10/10
Previewed by: Eric Brown on June 4, 2002
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