MLB '08: The Show

Reviewed by:
Scott Jones

Spring is in the air, which means in only a few short weeks, we'll get the chance to spend $9 on a plastic cup of suds, get a cancer-inducing sunburn on our bald spots, and pee in a trough between innings, all in the name of watching 18 ridiculously wealthy men jacked up on H.G.H. play a kids' game. Yes, it's baseball season, which means it's time for fans to report to the nearest game store to pick up this year's hardball offerings. To their credit, during the off-season, Sony fixed those eerie zombie eyes that made everyone on the field appear as if they were about to eat our braaaaaains. The Show—still the hardest-working single-player experience in the business—is much more varied this year, i.e. there are far fewer of those hit-a-homer-or-fail objectives, and more small-ball, hit-and-run-type scenarios. Also new: the pitcher-batter analysis tool. Hitting the Select button causes the game to cough up information on everything from how many first-pitch fastballs the pitcher has thrown to how often the batter hits curve balls to right field to whether or not the second baseman is distracted by the V.D. he picked up from that Kansas City prostitute the night before. Now that's next gen for you, asshole.

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