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WRUP: You have to love October edition
For most, when they think of October, they think of Halloween and the leaves changing color. For all of us sports fans, though, October marks baseball playoffs. And, Konami, in their infinite wisdom, released a baseball game we're very interested in this week called MLB Power Pros. So, will you be taking part in the festivities with us, or are you planning on playing through something else?
MLB Power Pros demonstrated in detail
MLB Power Pros Exhibition Match Uploaded by thetanooki The Tanooki's review of MLB Power Pros includes some lengthy video of the game in action, along with informative text about how gameplay works. We're fascinated by the series' continued Japanese success and impressed by the audacity of releasing an SD sports game in the realism-obsessed U.S. sports market. The cutesy appearance belies some fairly deep gameplay. The review speaks of things like a batting "sweet spot" that shrinks and grows according to your performance, and pitching that gives the player control over not speed, but precise positioning.The review makes some negative points about the difficulty of fielding and the nerfed motion controls, but is positive overall, and it sounds like the game can still be fun with waggle turned off. You can make your own observations from this video and the others found at the site!
TGS07: Power Pro Baseball swings for the fences
This latest clip from Power Pro Baseball (MLB Power Pros for us here in the states) has us all kinds of excited for some super-deformed baseball on our Wii. In showing us how a game is set up and played, we're dying to get in on the action. We just wish the game was Wi-Fi compatible ...
TGS07: Turn your giant, featureless head toward some Power Pro screens
Are you a fan of baseball played by enormous-headed people with free-floating, stumpy limbs? Of course you are. The Power Pro Baseball series has been doing the Weeble/Rayman thing since before the first Mii was Mii'd, and it's bringing its adorable signature look to the Wii.These screens of MLB Power Pros from the pre-TGS Konami Media Conference show the Japanese version of the game, called Jikkyo Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2, which, just like our release, uses the American Major League Baseball teams. If Japanese gamers can handle American MLB games without mullets (the "Powerprokuns" have no hair at all), then maybe we can too.
MLB Power Pros Japanese site launches
If you've been looking forward to the U.S. debut of the Japanese baseball franchise MLB Power Pros, the Japanese site for the game has launched. Within you can find tasty morsels of content in the form of screens and artwork. And, being the baseball enthusiasts that we are, you can bet we're dying to get our hands on the titile.[Via Go Nintendo]
Konami and 2K Sports announce MLB Power Pros
Some of us here at Wii Fanboy are fans of America's oldest institution: Baseball. As such, we're incredibly excited that Konami and 2K Games are teaming up to bring the Japanese baseball franchise Power Pro Baseball to the Wii and PS2 here in the states. Dubbed MLB Power Pros for us English-speaking folk, the game sports a very deformed chibi style of presentation, along with a mode that mixes in RPG elements into the equation.Catch a trailer of the game past the post break.
