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Ootp baseball 18 reviews11/11/2022 ![]() ![]() Now that Out of the Park Baseball has some of those nice bells and whistles, it’s the industry-standard baseball management sim. There are a couple of different reasons for that, ranging from the banal and sensible-a management sim doesn’t rely on an expensive graphics engine or art team-to the more consequential, such as the fact that baseball as a sport is well suited to turn a player into the numerical sum of his contributions on the field, rather than a person. The broad tendency to make video games that aren’t about doing so much as they are about managing others that do and profiting, leech-like, off of them is something that currently extends far beyond baseball, but still finds something of its roots in board-games-played-online-through-spreadsheets like Strat O’Matic. Why OOTP?: Well, it is the game of our baseball age, isn’t it? Far more so than The Show, at least in my opinion. Genre: Management Simulation Management Simulation So, Baseball Prospectus is going to write about, review, discuss, whatever the many, many baseball video games released in the last half-century that the genre has even existed. It can also be the game played on the virtual field. Baseball is more than just the game played on the field. ![]()
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