Quick Hits
GameSpy posted my review today, and with that I will be taking an OOTP hiatus until Patch #2. I’m doing this because I don’t want to get the online league back running full time until the game is ready for it, and I just don’t want to deal with the AI as it is right now. Also, I need to devote my baseball time to PureSim 2007, which I started playing last night for a review in CG Magazine. To be fair to PureSim, I need to shelf OOTP for a bit. I did some ballpark tests as well as some tests using the league modifiers (which are pretty darn powerful), but I think it best to hold off until we see what SI does with the next update.
As for PureSim, I have played earlier editions, and this one feels similar thus far but the games themselves are pretty slick as it has an animated baseball that shows you, in real time, where the ball is put into play. It’s pretty cool. Simple graphics like this can really help…now all we need are little sprite-based players that move around and we’re set. Something like this.