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MLB Front Office Manager |  | From: Take 2
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Seller: GoGamer
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 13875
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: baseball_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: DVD-ROM
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.1
MPN: 31519
Model: 710425315190
UPC: 710425315190
EAN: 0710425315190
ASIN: B001NIR8QM
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Build Your Roster - An extremely deep Career Mode takes users beyond simple trades and free signings, and allows them to fully experience the life of an MLB general manager. Manage Minor League rosters, set domestic and international scouting budgets, bid for Japanese free agents, select new players in the Amateur and Rule 5 Drafts, offer arbitration to free agents, and more. | | • | Take The Field - Manage your team's games on the field all season and enjoy a never-before-seen presentation style designed to resemble a real life TV broadcast | | • | Learn From a Pro - Renowned GM Billy Beane becomes a mentor to users, providing helpful tips and insightful baseball information that even the biggest fan doesn't know | | • | Online Fantasy Leagues | | • | Statistics |
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Product Description
Product InformationTake yourself in to the ballgame! MLB Front Office Manager lets gamers do everything a real-life baseball GM can do to develop a team from Spring Training through a full MLB season into the playoffs and the World Series. Using Major League teams and players gamers will create their own fictional baseball universe and build their reputation into elite status. Gamers can replace aging veterans with rookies scout the Minor Leagues make blockbuster trades and even participate in bidding wars for posted players from Japan as they make their way to the Hall of Fame. MLB Front Office Manager offers two distinct game modes. Become the GM in Career Mode and manage a team through a 30-year career that will hopefully lead to the Hall of Fame. As your knowledge and skill progresses over time gamers will gain points to improve various areas and help the team win games as a result. With Online Fantasy Mode create an online head-to-head management experience. With up to 30 Managers in the league gamers can compete against friends to see who has what it takes to be the best. A true baseball general manager also acts as a mentor in MLB Front Office Manager. Legendary Oakland Athletics' GM Billy Beane will offer advice encouragement and guidance as gamers steer a team through the intense competition that is Major League Baseball. Billy Beane is considered one of the most talented GM's in baseball today and has turned the Athletics into a consistent postseason contender since being named GM in 1997. Now in MLB Front Office Manager he passes that knowledge on to you the gamer.Product FeaturesBuild Your Roster - An extremely deep Career Mode takes users beyond simple trades and free signings and allows them to fully experience the life of an MLB general manager. Manage Minor League rosters set domestic and international scouting budgets bid for Japanese free agents select new players in the Amateur and Rule 5 Drafts
Amazon.com Product Description
MLB Front Office Manager gives fans the chance to experience their dream job as a Big League General Manager. Make trades, sign free agents, draft prospects and manage games all the way from Spring Training through the Playoffs. Featuring deep gameplay modes and a unique presentation style, MLB Front Office Manager is the only MLB licensed game to give fans total control of an MLB franchise.
Using Major League teams and players, you will be able to create your own fictional baseball universe and build a reputation into elite status. You can replace aging veterans with rookies, scout the Minor Leagues, make blockbuster trades, and even participate in bidding wars for posted players from Japan as they make their way to the Hall of Fame.
MLB Front Office Manager offers two distinct game modes. Become the GM in Career Mode, and manage a team through a 30-year career that will hopefully lead to the Hall of Fame. As your knowledge and skill progresses over time, you will gain points to improve various areas and help the team win games as a result. With Online Fantasy Mode, create an online head-to-head management experience. With up to 30 Managers in the league, you can compete against friends to see who has what it takes to be the best.
Special features include:
- Build Your Roster - An extremely deep Career Mode takes fans beyond simple trades and free signings, and allows them to fully experience the life of an MLB general manager. Manage Minor League rosters, set scouting budgets, bid for Japanese free agents, select new players in the Amateur and Rule 5 Drafts, and more.
- Take The Field - Manage your team’s games on the field all season long and enjoy a never-before-seen presentation style designed to resemble a real life TV broadcast.
- Learn From a Pro - Renowned GM Billy Beane becomes a mentor to users, providing helpful tips and insightful baseball information that even the biggest fan doesn’t know.
- Online Fantasy Leagues - Customize your league with fantasy drafts, modified rules and traditional Rotisserie and Head-to-Head fantasy baseball scoring systems. Also available offline against the CPU.
- Innovative Baseball Statistics - Evaluate talent using in-depth and authentic player statistics, as used by Billy Beane.
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Lacklustre October 4, 2009
Northern Warrior (Swindon, England)
As a fan of sports management sims - football (soccer), rugby and cricket - and having a passing interest in baseball, I bought this to see how managing a US baseball team would compare.
Perhaps I didn't read the spec closely enough but thus far I have found the title disappointing. The interface is far from intuitive for keyboard and mouse, seems to have been designed for a gamepad and console more than the PC. As a baseball "noob" I expected to do some head scratching but you are thrown straight in the deep end with contract negotiation for the new season. However the lightweight manual is of little use and there's not much in game help either. A tutorial would definitely have been of use.
Management seems largely confined to dealing with contracts and picking your squad. I couldn't see any coaching or training element which is surely a key component of any sports management sims where you hire the coaches and support staff then decide how you proceed with developing the squad. No team talks or individual "pep talks" with the players either. You don't get any say in managing investment in the ground or associated commercial activities - not saying you need to be setting the price of everything down to the hot pies from the concession stands (as an EA soccer management game did) but I find this aspect quite enjoyable.
When match day (eventually) arrives one of the things that attracted me to MLB over other text based sims was the promise of a full 3D game engine. This is best described as functional rather than pretty. Options are again extremely limited - there's very little in the way of tactical input into playing style. If you choose to go ball by ball, you can't vary the pitch style, batting is either hit or bunt. There's a feature to auto-play the match but surely this defeats the point of a management game?
Overall, rather disappointed. Maybe as someone not that well versed in the game I'm missing the point of what a baseball Front Office Manager does - but if this is all he does, it's not a very interesting premise for a game.
One final point, the game uses Steam to install and authenticate from the DVD - good news you don't need the disc in the drive (apart from the HD footprint of course), bad news if you decide the game isn't for you then you can't sell it on secondhand.
 Major League FUN September 25, 2009
V. Engle (Oregon)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
While this game isn't for Major League Gamers is does fit the bill for my 2 teen kids and thier dad. The approach of bad weather makes this a fun alternative to rainy day blahs.
 Sad entry March 27, 2009
Dave (New Jersey)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Can you imagine the nerve of 2K sports to throw this game into the arena with the quality of other baseball sims on the market?? It's like a kid playing tee ball being placed on a major league roster.
Years and years of tweaking and dedication by other game makes (ootp/baseball mogul) have produced spectacular games with a high level of realism. Then, enter front office manager, where they throw out all basic MLB rules such as free agency, waivers, AAA demotions, contract negotiations/40-man rosters...etc....
What an embarrassment this should be. You better come harder than this if you want to survive 2K sports!!!!
Terrible March 3, 2009
M. Roper
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is by far the worst game ever.
I should start out by saying that I was not expecting a baseball game where you play the game of baseball. I bought this with full understanding that the only function of the game was to take over the role of a GM and try to build a winning team. Without getting into the details of the plethora of glitches this game has (many plays don't show up in batting orders, etc), 2K Sports should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for releasing this with all of the bugs. Not only that but the game is entirely too easy and simplistic. I have been winning roughly 130 games a year consistently, without much effort at all. Avoid this game like the plague.
Video Card February 22, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have waited for a long time to get this game, and have gone to many stores looking for it. I finally get the game, I wait while while it installs, and can't wait to play it. Then I click on the link and the game says that MLB Front Office Manager doesn't support my graphics card. I am going to try and get a new graphics card, but I am very dissapointed
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