• Summary: While attending the University of Washington, MLB 2K9's cover athlete Tim Lincecum won the coveted Golden Spikes Award which is given to the nation’s top college baseball player. He was drafted 10th overall by the San Francisco Giants in 2006. Known to fans as "The Franchise" and "The Freak", Lincecum was named to the National League All-Star team this past season while putting up astonishing numbers and leading the Majors™ with a remarkable 265 strikeouts. Lincecum also led the National League in other key pitching categories including win percentage (18-5, .783), opponent’s batting average (.221), and strikeouts per nine innings (10.51), along with ranking second in earned run average (2.62). For all of his historic accomplishments, Lincecum won the Players’ Choice Award as the National League Outstanding Pitcher this season, along with the National League Pitcher of the Year Award from Sporting News. Both awards were voted on by his peers. More significantly, Lincecum today was named the National League Cy Young Award winner, given annually to the top pitcher in both the American League and the National League, and voted on by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. [2K Sports] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 29
  2. Negative: 5 out of 29
  1. Although MLB 2K9 offers entertaining base-rounding thrills for both Xbox 360 and PS3, these issues prevent it from topping Sony's higher-quality MLB 09: The Show.
  2. If you seriously play this game with an open mind you will see that it has a lot of potential to be one of the best baseball games ever next year. Sure this year lacks some polish and options.
  3. If you're the unfortunate baseball fan without a PS3, PS2, or PSP, you'll have to make do with whatever you've been playing until now to fill the void of good baseball games to play while those on the PS3 should not even go beyond the demo in consideration of getting this game.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 14
  2. Negative: 7 out of 14
  1. Joba
    9
    where am I?I really cant believe these completly wrong reviewers.They now have a patch for the game but come on.Your all just 2K haters with your ooow ea and sony people.This baseball game is really awsome and I have 2k7 and I was playing now and --no,no,no.MLB 2K9 is the best baseball game made to this date 1-16-10.If you want to know a 2nd place its not the show,its world series baseball 2k3.I'm right and there are thousands that agree with me and thousands that are so upset cause they love there "the show"or"mvp baseball 2004,2005.Well like I said 2k in right on the money with there baseball and basketball games they just need to change a few things with there hockey title then 2K will have this locked up.They made an awsome tennis game "Top Spin 3"I commend you 2K for great work and for your baseball title I give it a 9.6 Expand
    • 1 of 2 users said yes
  2. BuckmanB
    5
    Graphics are mediocore, which is surprising for a 2K game. There also lots of gliches. These are the 3 most common: 1. Sometimes on a ground ball, the short stop will throw to first base and for some reason the 1st baseman lifts his foot off the bag before he catches the ball, allowing the runner to be safe at 1st. This happens at least once a game. 2. On a flyball, the outfielder sometimes stands directly underneath the ball and looks like he is about to catch it when he watches it fall and hit the ground right next time him. Happens usually 1-2 times a game. 3. Pitchers get hurt pitching... I'm not sure how this happens but it happens every 6 or 7 games. Also if you dive for a ball, the outfielder usually gets injured 25% of the time. Even though these gliches happen often, it is still a fun game to play and if all you have a 360, this is the only baseball game out there so I would say it is worth getting. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. CeeJay
    0
    Fielding, Pitching, and baserunning work ok...Hitting however is still abysmal. This game still uses a overly simplified hitting system that randomly decides if your swing generates a fly ball or a ground ball. Its a simple timing system (the same used in the original nintendo "baseball" game)-just inexcusable. Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes

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