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Just a few notes about PureSim after spending the morning setting up a league and playing a few games:

• It’s nowhere near as detailed as OOTP. However, for some I think this will be a positive rather than a negative because OOTP 2006 is information overload. (I love the detail but some may find it just too much) I still think that PureSim’s newspaper coverage is the best in any sim on the market. Grade A stuff.

• I cannot express just how much it adds to managing a game to see that little ball being smacked around the park. What’s more dramatic? Reading text or actually seeing a ball travel near the wall and hoping it clears the fence? I’ll take the simple graphics, thanks. Not to keep harping on this but once a “text” game adds little men to chase said ball around the park I’ll be back in MicroLeague heaven.
• This was in Puresim 2005 Gold but there are sound effects…but wow they sound bad. You get a computerized voice that announces each player as he comes to bat but it sounds like the old Wordperfect text reader. I wish that instead of that we got crowd noise and/or a batted ball sound. That voice is sure to give me nightmares.
• I noticed a SAC bunt glitch in both games I played this morning. If a failed SAC bunt takes place, the defense turns a double play. I dunno if the game sees a failed bunt as a batter swinging away or what but it doesn’t make a whole lotta sense.
• In PureSim, unlike OOTP 2006, you can decide if a player tags up, tries to throw out a runner, etc. I love this. OOTP 6.5 did this but both PureSim and OOTP 6.5 don’t go far enough. We simply need more information. Simply saying, “Fly ball to RF. Do you a send Smith (speed 65) home against Jones RF (Arm Strength 55.) ” Well, I have no friggin’ idea if a want to or not. Where is the ball, exactly? Deep RF? Shallow RF? Was Jones retreating when he made the catch or was his momentum taking him toward home? As a manager, I absolutely need to know this kinda thing.
• Anyway, after a quick two hour tour this feels a lot like PureSim 2005 Gold but with the nifty animated ball graphics thrown in. The featurelist says a lot under the hood was retooled but as I said, I just started messing with it. Try the demo to see that ball thing I keep yapping about. It’s cool.

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