iOOTP Baseball 2014 Edition Review
Price: $4.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0.0
Device Reviewed On: iPad Mini Retina
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Baseball is a game of inches and adjustments: little things can go a long way toward success. The iOOTP Baseball series, the mobile versions of the long-running Out of the Park baseball simulation series, started off incredibly strong a few years ago. But the lack of year-to-year change made things feel a bit stale, as little issues became more annoying. But two little changes to the game have made it a much-improved product.
While the heart of the game is largely the same, there are two key changes. For one, the interface has been tweaked, especially on iPad, and given a general visual flattening that makes it fit in a lot better with iOS 7. It just looks a lot more modern and appealing, though it's still very convoluted at points. The other feature is the ability to easily edit players' various attributes including performance, potential, and biographical info. This is important because it allows players to create the experience that they want. Feel like a player should be better in certain performance attributes or think that they have a particular pitch type that the default rosters don't have? That can be changed. Heck, one can just change their names if they're annoying. The editing even gets to contract and experience details, so it's easy to cheat, but dedicated players looking for realism at least have an outlet for it that's accessible from any player page.