Joe Morgan and Jon Miller provide pretty solid play-by-play, though they do call the wrong player's name on a fairly regular basis (maybe five percent of the time). The game also features a Homerun Derby and create-a-player section, both of which are amusing, but don't add terribly much depth to the title.
Somehow, for all its problems, and they are, as described above, legion, the game still has something going for it. There are issues galore, but picking up a Wii remote and playing the game is still, undeniably, fun. Getting a pitcher out of a jam with a well-placed curveball allowing for a 6-4-3 double play leaves the player with enough of a sense of accomplishment to put up with all problems. Smacking that walk off homerun in the 10th inning of a tied ballgame is a great feeling, no matter how many other homeruns one has already hit that day.
None of the issues the game presents are insurmountable, they are just discouraging (as is the fact that there is no downloadable roster update modifying the MLB teams to what they were at the start of this year's season). Major League Baseball 2K8 is a solid first attempt at launching the franchise on the Nintendo Wii, but a lot of work needs to be done on it prior to the 2K9 edition.
MLB 2K8 doesn't hit a homerun by any means, but it's a definite leadoff double. Hopefully next year they'll hit it out of the park.
Major League Baseball 2K8 is rated E (Everyone) by the ESRB.
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