MLB Stickball
MLB Stickball est un jeu vidéo de sport de type stickball sous licence MLB, publié par 2K Sports pour la Xbox 360 via le service Xbox Live Arcade. Il a été lancé le 8 octobre 2008 sur cette plateforme, avant d'être retiré du Xbox Live Marketplace en décembre 2014.
L'accueil critique et des joueurs a donné lieu à des avis variés, toujours présentés comme de simples opinions. Ainsi, TeamXbox a estimé que « Even with some signs of the major league’s style of repetitiveness, MLB Stickball is still one for those that have been waiting for mindless baseball fun in co… », tandis qu'Official Xbox Magazine a noté que « Traditional baseball-sim junkies will recoil at the ease and simplicity, but kids and casual fans might enjoy stepping up to this plate. » Pour sa part, un joueur cité sur Metacritic a exprimé son appréciation en écrivant que « This is what sports games should be. It seems overly simple at first, until you really start to learn the ins and outs of the game. With such simple pitching a… ».
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Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« Even with some signs of the major league’s style of repetitiveness, MLB Stickball is still one for those that have been waiting for mindless baseball fun in convenient, XBLA packaging. »
« Traditional baseball-sim junkies will recoil at the ease and simplicity, but kids and casual fans might enjoy stepping up to this plate. »
« MLB Stickball is a cute and simple game but its a weak groundout, not the home run it aspires to be. »
« Proof that simplicity isn't always a good thing, this cutesy baseball download is so vapid you’ll lose interest well before the 7th-inning stretch. »
« MLB Stickball is bad to the core. It has few redeeming qualities. It's overly simplistic, it's poorly thought out, it looks bad and it's boring. »
« Rather than simulate a playground game we never played in the UK anyway, pay the extra and import the brilliant "MLB 2K8." [Jan 2009, p.104] »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« This is what sports games should be. It seems overly simple at first, until you really start to learn the ins and outs of the game. With such simple pitching and hitting mechanics, it's surprising how much nuance is crammed in them. Nothing's more fun then striking out your friends with janky, unpredictable grounders. »
