High Heat Baseball

I recently purchased High Heat Baseball 2004 for my Playstation 2, because I love playing baseball on video game consoles, and I haven't played one for a while. But more specifically: I just bought a used, year-old baseball game for my Playstation 2, not necessarily because I'm cheap, but because I'm too stupid not to realize that it was a year old (I can't really be blamed, though, for not remembering that sports game designers date their games forward a year, just like car manufacturers).

All the same, despite the fact that it doesn't have the newest rosters, it shouldn't really matter how old it is, because I play video games for really stupid reasons. And perhaps lamest of all is the reason that I play baseball video games: because I like to hit home runs.

No, let me be more specific: I like to hit home runs, then watch the arc of the ball as it travels out of the park, finally to land out in McCovey Cove or on Sheffield Avenue (outside of Wrigley Field, for you non-Chicagoans).

And you know what? High Heat Baseball doesn't let me do that. It just shows the ball zooming out of the stadium from the batter's perspective, meaning that I can't see where it lands.

As I said: stupid reasons. If you play video games for more normal reasons, you might like it. Or, you might like to try MLB 2005.