Live Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 PS3 Review

Live Powerful Pro Baseball (A.K.A Jikkyou Pawafuru Puro Yakyu in Japanese) is a Japanese only baseball series made by Konami who are well known for soccer games such as Pro Evolution Soccer and International Superstar Soccer are my 2 favourites sports series. I decided to give a try of the baseball games that I wanted to play it on consoles. I have not tried the Major League Baseball games yet because I did'nt have one but instead I'll have a go with Live Powerful Pro Baseball series on SNES and N64 which I'm using the emulators software on my laptop and what can I say?, It's a interesting baseball game with Nippon Professional Baseball Players made of cartoon characters known as Pawapurokun which is quite simular to Ubisoft's characters Rayman. The gameplay is gimmicky fun to play and the challenging is very good indeed, so this is reason I wanted to get this game for PS3 to try it out, if it's good as the classics baseball games.
Ok'ay lets do the review of the Japanese exclusive games for PS3 shall we.

Live Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 comes with new NPB players in team, new stages, improved gameplay ability, updated graphics, success mode, pennant mode, arrange mode and online mode is featured in the game.
The success mode is to complete the baseball career which contains a story and improving a players abilities through scenarios.
The pennant mode is a championship league.
The arrange mode is for creating the teams.
The online mode is for battle players through the online muiltiplayer.
It also have a versus mode to play with your friends in 2 players games or maybe play 1 player on your own with computer players.
let's talk about the gameplay. The gameplay is far impressive with good players abilities, depends the characters condition has a good or bad strength for a role of batsmen and fielders. The targeting controls is very good for players but when balancing with the analog stick is may seems bit harder to control it but you may also change controls setting on pause menu and replace it to moving targeting is seems lot easier and better to use than balancing with analog controls. The batsmen is quite good for hitting ball on under and some are quite good at hitting ball high up to get a homerun, if the aiming symbols is bigger but you may sometime end up hitting the ball in wrong directions but you need to get a right time to hit the ball in correct aiming. You may also control them to run around the zone positions where they can stop to or carry on run around but it's annoying to run back to current zone positions, if the current batsmen got out. The fielders is good for throwing ball in different targeting and you may also controlling fielders to catch the ball in right fielding or pass it to players on right zone positons to get the players out of the game.
The graphics is quite nice with characters design is much reminds me of one of the Ubisoft's characters Rayman because of the figures of the characters is quite both simular with unique design and features. The backgrounds and textures are looking colorful and bright with nice animation and visuals.
The music and sounds has a catchy music but you may also play a custom soundtrack from PS3 home menu during the game which seems to be a great idea to fit the music in the game. It has a good sound effects with crowd backgrounds and voice of Japanese commentator is sounds cool in the game.
The special features has a online mode, arrange mode, pennant mode and success mode which is a decent choice in the game to have.



Advantages

Good players abilities.

Impressive gameplay.

Nice looking graphics.

Features custom soundtrack to play MP3 music.

Cool looking characters.

All Japanese games are region free, due to PS3 considered to be a free region consoles to play any region games in different country.


Disadvantages

Sometimes the gameplay is little bit repetitive.


You may not able to read in Japanese, if you're only American and European gamer need to figure it out during the game options.

This game can be expensive on some websites like ebay and amazon.


Final Verdict

Here is my conclusion.


Gameplay 8/10 - Great players abilities and Impressive controls makes a very good baseball games.

Graphics 8/10 - Nice characters design, colorful backgrounds and textures and great animation and visuals.

Music and sound 8.5/10 - Catchy music but has custom soundtrack is come and handy, good sound effects with crowd noise and cool voice commentator.

Special Features 7/10 - Online mode, arrange mode, pennant mode and success mode is decent choice to have it.

Overall 8.3/10 - Konami made a best baseball games for PS3 even it's only in Japan. If you interested with this game, I'm sure you can able to get it on ebay or amazon. If you want to get a english version of this, then get MLB Power Pros instead. Anyway it's still a enjoyable games and I'm sure you will like this kind of game.

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