Two very interesting demos have made it over to Xbox Live this week, here are my quick thoughts on one of them.

The game is a 3 inning AL All Stars vs NL Stars at this year’s venue, St Louis. You have to play as the Away team if you’re the AL, so no DH. Make sure you sub Ortiz for Youkilis at 1B. Big Papi has a ‘no doubt HR’ power up so hit turbo and swing and you’re in good shape.

I love how different players have different bonuses. Some of the pitcher power ups include not losing a specific pitch.

The game is fun and I like how it takes injuries into account. The only drawback with this game, as with seemingly every arcade-esque game is the catch up logic.

I went into extra innings tied up. I managed my “big swing” (like a gamebreaker automatic HR if you make contact) until I had 2 runners on. I piled on the runs and led 9-3 in the 4th.

Of course the computer then gets 6 runs no problem and then has just enough for the big swing, and you have to be perfect to avoid the big swing – I wasn’t so he homered and game over. It’s just a little too convenient that the computer is always doing this for me. Still I keep playing. Home run pinball is always fun as well.

I am looking forward to the full version of the game – the original was a sleeper hit and I think this will be pretty good as well (PS – please bring Power Pros back. Thanks).