Backyard Baseball 2005

We have an older Nvidia Gforce 3 card and have had no problems. I have heard that some older video cards aren't supported by the latest DirectX from Microsoft. Maybe that is the problem some people are having. I've always found Atari's tech support helpful when I gave them a call, though I haven't had to in a while.

The only reason I'm not giving this five stars is that I wanted to play with my gamepad, and the button mapping is quite awkward. Unlike other games I have that say they support controllers, there doesn't seem to be any way to remap the buttons. So we just use the mouse and keyboard. (My daughter doesn't mind. I'm the one who plays console sports games, so I'm used to a gamepad.)


Backyard Baseball 2005 is Awesome   November 5, 2004
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

This is a really great game. The things that make it a great game are:
* It has extremely fun power ups
* You can save the season play and have a 32 game career
* It has awesome graphics (watch for the cow being lifted into the flying saucer.

The things that need improvement are:
* I had trouble saving a coach at first because I didn't have priviledges to create a folder outside of My Documents. They should fix that.
* That's all until version 2006!


Worth the effort!   July 8, 2004
lutefiskman (St. Paul, MN)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

I must say that although we initially had problems getting this game to run properly on my son's computer (an 800 Mhz PIII w/ATI 7500 running Windows ME), once we downloaded the latest drivers (the ones from just two months ago didn't work!), the game ran great! My son is 8 years old and he loves it - he's already up to the "Pro" difficulty level and is just starting to play the Season mode. It's fun watching him put together a team based on the kid's stats - this game is definitely teaching him a lot about Baseball! Highly recommend to anyone with a young baseball fan in the family!


I Thought the others were good!   September 17, 2004
8 out of 11 found this review helpful

I LOVE Backyard Baseball 2005! It's a great game! I thought it'd be fun to play Backyard Baseabll 2003 because I hadn't finished a season yet. It seems so BORING! Humongous (a.k.a Atari, Inforgrames.) did an excellent job of creating realistic 3-D worlds. There's only one that doesn't look 3-D. Because when I was doing the Home Run Derby, (one of the few mini-games in the program.) the baseball went right through to back of the setting! But otherwise, the 3-D graphics are so amazing! And it's even funner than the last one! Buy it, and have fun!


One star is being generous   November 3, 2004
geoff (texas)
8 out of 14 found this review helpful

The 3-d graphics although an improvement, are hardly worth the effort. The gameplay is hard and frustrating, the option to save is gone and so you have to finish the 2 hour marathon in one sitting, the characters are bland and "robotic" as one fellow reviewer had the good sense to say. Backyard Baseball 2005 is a far worse than the prevous years.