At least all the Nickelodeon based characters look like they should, and children will be able to recognize their favorites. Character models tend to be a bit jaggy and/or pixilated, and there does seem to be the occasional burst of slowdown. Nicktoons MLB 3D is pretty much a straight port of the DS version of the game that came out in September 2011. Could it have been better? Sure, but it has the most important modes and that’s what is important.
All in all, though, I’m fine with what’s here. I could do it in other arcade baseball titles since the NES, so I know it was possible to do it here. I’d have liked for the season mode to be a little more robust and the ability to keep track of stats. It doesn’t keep track of season stats, batting averages, or even how a player has done in the current game, but what’s here is pretty decent. The cards don’t do anything in particular, but it’s cute to have.Īll in all, Nicktoons MLB 3D offers a lot of the same modes that you would expect to find in a more straight-laced baseball game. Again, a cute little mini-game to let you do something other than traditional baseball.īesides all of this, you can collect “cards” based on actions you take, such as pitching a perfect inning, getting thirty home runs, picking off five runners, things like that. You get three tries per level to knock all the cups down. This game has you huck a ball at a stack of cups. Finally, there is “Frosty Freeze Toss” which requires the use of an AR card that comes with the package. It sounds weird, but it’s a cute way to practice aiming your hits. The second is “Rock ‘N Roll” where you hit baseballs into boulders to protect some brick walls. The first is “Distance Derby” which is a home run derby. Here you create and play as either an all-star MLB team or an all Nicktoons team in a face off to see which is the bestĦ. You can set it up to be a best of 3, 5 or 7 game series.ĥ. This is a bracket tournament similar to the ALCS/NLCS playoffs at the end of the season.
You play through a full MLB season with your chosen team.Ĥ. This is similar to the above, but you choose everything. This automatically starts up a game with random teams for both sides, a random ballpark and random settings.Ģ. So is the pairing of Nicktoons characters and Major League Baseball a surprisingly entertaining matchup, or is the end result a weird game that will appeal to neither prospective audience?ĭespite the inclusion of Nicktoons characters, this is a pretty straightforward baseball game. Hell, none of them even had the MLB license… which this game does.
Sure, some gamers might shudder at the idea of using Ren Hoek or Jimmy Neutron in their starting lineup instead of real baseball players, but true baseball fans still hold games like Baseball Stars, Base Wars and Baseball Simulator 1.000 as some of the best baseball titles ever – and they were far from SERIOUS BUSINESS. This double licensed arcade baseball game is the first North American baseball game for the Nintendo 3DS. Don’t worry though baseball fans, where 2K Sports lets 3DS owners down, 2K Play saves the day with Nickelodeon Nicktoons MLB 3D.
Why 2K Games decided to give the PS2 (in fact MLB 2k12 is the last official release for the venerable system) and PSP versions, but not the 3DS (ESPECIALLY with a DS version) is beyond me.
However between both those games, one major system is overlooked. It’s also the day 2K Sports releases MLB 2k12 for the PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii, Xbox 360 and the PS3. It’s the day MLB: The Show ’12 hits for the Sony Playstation 3 and Playstation Vita. But for a lot of other gamers – it’s Baseball day. For others it’s Street Fighter X Tekken day. March 6th is a pretty big day for gamers. Warning: A non-numeric value encountered in /nfs/c12/h02/mnt/222827/domains//html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 64