The game does have a weekly “news” report given by a woman you’re trying to date, and she reports all-star voting and who the players of the week are. In my experience, I’ve seen weeks where the player of the week is “N/A” which again makes no sense – yes there can be no standout players but still the award should be given out. This woman also reports the latest trade – and every trade is a ‘blockbuster,’ including those thrilling Padres-Pirates swaps. One of the trades I saw was John Smoltz for Alex Rodiguez straight up. Um….yeah, right.

Despite these issues, MLB Life is a very addictive mode – there’s so much to do and so little time to do it…while you can store things at your house – when you go on the road, you can’t bring all the items with you so you have to use strategy – do you bring some extra vitamins or your hand held barbells to increase stamina in practice? My character was extremely injury prone which may be because I worked him to the bone and gave him little rest. You have to manage all this stuff, keep up friendships with players, date, practice and read books to stay up on culture. Phew. It’s tough being a major leaguer.

The actual gameplay hasn’t changed a bit since last year. The graphics and in game interfaces are the same. The success mode is still there, you can play a season, or a quick one off game. The commentator from last year is still here and he’s still an idiot – he calls foul balls as hits quite often.

Although it sounds like there are a lot of issues (not to mention the lack of online play AGAIN), it is still one of the better baseball games on the market and is absolutely worth it for first time buyers—it’s much better than 2K’s MLB series but below the gold standard of MLB The Show ’08 on the PS3. MLB Power Pros is a very fun, very addictive game that passes time quickly; however owners of the original aren’t getting a whole lot of ‘new’ stuff here – this reviewer just expected more in the game’s 2nd spin.

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