Commodore Format
1st March 1993
Categories: Review: Software
Author: Roger Frames
Publisher: The Hit Squad
Machine: Commodore 64/128
Published in Commodore Format #30
RBI 2 (The Hit Squad)
What do you get if you cross a pony with a cow and a particular oak's bark chopped into a million pieces? A skinny bull that neighs because it's got indigestion? Nope, mix the right bits in the right quantities and you'll eventually end up with an all-American, wholesome, apple pie baseball. Bet you never knew that. [They did if they saw the same TV programme you did - Ed]
RBI 2 Baseball is a baseball sim. Got that? Wasn't too difficult, was it? It's dead good at being a baseball game. And that's about it really, apart from the one- or two-player option. Its just a lot of pitching, batting, striking and running.
Like HeroQuest, RBI 2 is dead easy to play first time out, but doesn't get boring the more you play it because each time you play, you find new features that you just didn't notice the first time around.
The only thing that confused me was the statistics table. You'd need a degree in baseball to understand the numbers fully - it makes a cricket scoreboard look like a game of Noughts and Crosses. Luckily it's not too difficult to work out who won the game. It's discovering why that causes the problems.
Frame Rate
Definitely a lot better than being left until last when the school speedies are choosing their teams for football in PE.
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