MLB Front Office Manager

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I love the idea of this game, but I could just scream at the person who made it. Picture this: You customize everything yourself. You draft players, cultivate them, set the lineups and rotation. You try to sim and it asks if you want it to automatically take a guy off the DL. You say sure. But the computer doesn't just take the player off the DL. It drops the players you were developing to free agency, and re-organizes your rosters, lineups and rotations at every level. Suddenly instead of having tons of control you have no control, and you wonder why you just wasted your night setting that all up. More generally you spend most of the game manually fixing tiny, common sense details and you rarely get into the parts you care about. I hope they come out with another edition and this time get it right, because I want to play the game this could have been.

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I was very intrigued when I heard about this game. And the video clips made it even more intriguing. But, this is a lot like when you see a trailer for a movie and the best parts are shown in the trailer, and there isn't much else afterwards.

Now, the good thing about this game is that the "behind the scenes" stuff is pretty decent. As the GM, you start in December. You have to deal with all unsigned players, arbitration, free agents, and the Class 5 draft. With contracts, you can decide the length, salary, option years, and incentives. "Billy Beane" sends you emails to make sure you don't forget important things in relation to the above mentioned events. He will also give you tips about future planning. You can choose your GM's background, each with pro's and con's. For example, if you're a businessman, you excel at contracts and negotiations, but suffer in player development. If you are an ex-player, you have leadership and chemistry, but suffer in trades and contracts.

Now, if you're looking at this as an actual baseball game, don't waste your time. You can simulate games, or you can manage them. And by managing, it means you tell the batter to bat, bunt, steal, or whatever the situation calls for. Same thing for pitching. Other than substitutions and player alignemt, you have no control over anything else. The graphics are very basic and not much fun to watch. So, simulating gets you through the season faster, which makes the actual "baseball" part of this game a total failure.

If you like the background stuff, you will enjoy this game. If you want to enjoy playing actual baseball, wait for MLB 09 The Show, coming out this March.

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An excellent General Manager game! Originally rented this from Blockbuster and played it a few days and thought it was so-so. The real fun begins after a few seasons are under your belt and you level up your manager. Developing young talent is also fun, as it could turn out your hot prospect is not so hot or turns out to hit 60 homers a year while being paid 1 million dollars... I notice the talent does get scarce after about 5-10 years though, but if yuou keep a good eye on your farm system you'll be stocked enough to have a quality team every year. I thoroughly enjoyed this game and would usually sim each season and then manage a few of the postseason games. A few things to watch while you sim the seasonthe Disabled list and your extended roster. Sometimes when a guy comes off the DL, the cpu will put him in reserve which could mess you up. Also had a problem with one or two of my star starters just disappearing at the end of the season before contract time. Weird.. Otherwise after renting this game, I decided to buy it to keep. It is not for everybody, and I have checked out Mogul and the other one.. oocp?, but this game was a keeper for me-a stathead and baseball lover. Thank you and enjoy the game!

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I think that this is a fun game. Yes it will take a while to build a dynasty but this game is all about yoyr farm system. It is very fun. As soon as you win your first championship you keep on winning. I really like the Jappenese bidding part because maost of their players are 80 overall(Highest overall in the game).

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I love this game. It is simple to navigate and understand. And is addicting. I enjoy learning what a baseball manager does.