Major League Baseball 2K11

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User Score
5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 16
  3. Negative: 5 out of 16
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  1. beornwulf
    Jun 2, 2011
    5
    This is the laziest console port I have ever seen. If you are a PC gamer trying to play a baseball game you can forget it. Besides the incredibly un-intuitive menu system, designed to utilize the limited inputs of a console controller, the 7+ level nested menu system makes finding what you want worse than trying to change settings on an (ancient) Nokia 3360. Imagine my chagrin as I triedThis is the laziest console port I have ever seen. If you are a PC gamer trying to play a baseball game you can forget it. Besides the incredibly un-intuitive menu system, designed to utilize the limited inputs of a console controller, the 7+ level nested menu system makes finding what you want worse than trying to change settings on an (ancient) Nokia 3360. Imagine my chagrin as I tried to use my controller to find and change the keyboard settings. Once I got through all the nested submenus, I tried to remap the keys to, you know, match the actual layout of my controller. You see, 2k11 gives names to every key on the controller (just 1, 2, etc.) but it also has shapes. So when it suggests a key press and gives you a big pic of an "L2"-type key (think PS3) it could, and was, in my case, mapped to a different key. So fine, I fixed it after ignoring the visual cues the game gave me to press the wrong buttons. Then I played. Yeah, I could play a game. I could pitch OK, but obviously the gesture system is consolized. My controller didn't accurately give back the input the game. Maybe I have a crap controller but, u know what? I am a PC gamer. So I tried to use the mouse and keyboard. NOPE. As far as I know this isn't even possible in-game. So I never got very far besides a pathetic career mode giving out hits left and right because I couldn't make the slider gesture correctly. Is this my fault? perhaps. I tell you what, in MY day, Ken Griffey Jr's Winning Run didn't need 'gestures' to be fun… Expand
  2. Jessrond
    Mar 11, 2012
    6
    This game wasn't terrible, but the controls were poorly ported from the Xbox to the PC in an attempt to get this game out. You had to read the instructions or the help files in game to figure out what keys corresponded to various buttons in various situations.

    The announcers were quite buggy as well. They had very canned conversations and would repeat themselves twice. He'd say. "He flew    This game wasn't terrible, but the controls were poorly ported from the Xbox to the PC in an attempt to get this game out. You had to read the instructions or the help files in game to figure out what keys corresponded to various buttons in various situations.

    The announcers were quite buggy as well. They had very canned conversations and would repeat themselves twice. He'd say. "He flew out last time up. Last time up, he flew out." I don't think that is what they intended.

    Create a Player was fun, but I felt like it became too easy and the Hall of Fame options were very limited. You also only had one standard player... you always started with a 50 score or so in every category (maybe 40 in stealing)

    Yet I saw other minor leaguers flailing away with power scores below 50 or even 40. So why couldn't I do that?

    It was still fun. The best part is the dynamic rating system. The game is always tracking your performance and will have a little detail like "6 RBIs in the last week" or "no HR in 3 weeks" etc.    … Expand

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74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. GamingXP
    Jul 15, 2011
    63
    No online content for the German PC version. That sucks.
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  2. Absolute Games
    May 31, 2011
    76
    MLB 2K11 has plenty of nifty concepts, it is reasonably complex, and has a solid look, but it wouldn't hurt to inject a few fresh ideas into the old formula.
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  3. PC Gamer
    May 18, 2011
    74
    The subtle differences are improvements, but if you already own MLB 2K10, this edition is too similar to justify the upgrade cost. [July 2011, p.79]
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