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i bought a new game for the nintendo wii this weekend. judging from the title of the post, you may already be able to guess what it’s called. throughout a few previous video game related posts on this here blog, i have called for the nintendo wii virtual console to please, please make the old nintendo game baseball simulator 1.000 available to download. well, it appears that i no longer have to plead and consistently check the new “old” games that nintendo makes available every monday (oh, i’ll still check anyway). mlb power pros is like baseball simulator 1.000 on steroids. i didn’t play rbi baseball very often, i thought that sucked in comparison to baseball simulator. power pros is licensed by the mlb players association, so it has complete rosters and player statistics from the 2006 season. you can create a season and track all sorts of statistics. create a player, create a team, start a season, start a season with a created team, just about anything and everything i could have desired in a baseball game. upon playing mlb power pros for the first time, i joked to my friend, “this game is going to be horrible for me, this game will take over my life.” and it has. i created a season with the mariners, so far we’re 11-0, i think. we’re like the new england patriots on steroids. what? i already used that analogy?. ok, we’re like the new england patriots on crack … and steroids. just about every setting can be tweaked to keep it competitive and most things like fielding, can be switched from manual to automatic with settings in between like “semi-auto” and also skill levels associated with the setting. so you could set the fielding to “semi-auto, novice or expert” while the hitting could be on a different setting altogether. the characters are cartoony, they don’t have legs, just bodies and feet, and somewhat resemble the mii characters that you can create. their faces are designed to look like the actual player and just about every distinguishable player has their own batting stance similar to their real-life counterpart. oh, i almost forgot the one part that makes this game soooo much fun for the wii. you can use the classic controller for the entire game and you don’t have to swing the wii remote around at all. essentially, the controls are similar to a regular game for a regular system. no churning wii-motions to make your guy run the bases, no swinging the wii-mote like swinging a baseball bat, no overhand throwing motion simulating a thrown pitch, no-fucking-nothing. seriously, the wii needs to make more games with controller options like this. don’t feel like slinging the wii-mote around and having a sore arm/shoulder the next day? then don’t. just attach the classic controller and never get off your ass again, assuming you keep a bucket next to your couch like i do. this game is phenomenal. i could go on for a couple hundred more words about how much fun the gameplay is, how in-depth the statistics and detail go, and just how refreshing a game like this is to play.

after work, i’m going over to play some halo 3 at my friend’s house. i haven’t played it yet, don’t own an xbox, and surprisingly, i think i’ve only ever played halo once. so, i give it about 15 minutes before i’m sick of getting “pwned” and chuck the wireless at my friends leg-humping pooch. i’ll let you know how much i suck tomorrow, but in the meantime, go find mlb power pros.