Spec Me A Baseball Management Game...

Vern1961

Vern1961

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...That has decent in match graphics.

I know there are a few kicking about but most seem to be very heavily text based. Basically looking for something similar to the old Premier Manager or Fifa Soccer Manager games. Can be either download or CD, there's usually a few on-line sources which will export US PC games to the UK.
 
I'm a Baseball Mogul fan myself...its very stat-driven (as any baseball game should be)

It might be up your alley, although the graphics aren't anything special.
 
Just had a look at MLB Front Office Manager on Metacritic and it's got a very low score of 45. Out Of The Park Baseball got 96 out of a 100! I might have a look at that if there is a demo for it.
 
Well it's ordered now...

Reading the reviews on Rainforest US it seemed most of the low scores originated from:
1. It doesn't run well (or at all) on integrated graphics chips. Not an issue for me, PC as sig and laptop has a dedicated Nvidia 8600 chip.
2. The management options are "lite", again that suits me as I used to spend as much time in Premier Manager tweaking the price of fish and chips, as scouting for players.

My interest in baseball is fairly casual, largely as a result of watching movies like Major League (:D:D) etc. so some of the intricate detail would be wasted anyway. The main thing for me was decent match graphics and I can tolerate the business side being less than perfect if you get to see the game. When it came to footie management sims I was always more PM/Fifa than CM.
 
Front Office is dire, very dire.

You were probably better off with either:

OOTP (there are freeware versions out there so you dont have to buy the latest)
Puresim (again I think this is freeware atm)
Baseball Mogul (they also have older versions as freeware, ie 2008 version)

But seeing you preferred match graphics, I suppose the above wouldnt have been ideal.
 
Are there any other decent management games like this for NFL/NHL/ that type of thing? Something to pass a few hours here and there..
 
For NFL I know of Football Mogul (made by the same guys as Baseball Mogul) and probably more popular is Front Office Football.

However EA also bought our NFL Head Coach (not sure if its on the PC tbh) which is a mix of Madden graphics and management.

NHL - well it was EHM (produced by SI after they bought in the freeware game developers). That was ceased so I think 07 is the last version out there.

Cant remember any others off the top of my head.
 
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