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MLB SlugFest 20-03

MLB SlugFest 20-03 features the best looking players ever seen in a baseball game, and their crazy animated antics will delight you each and every game no matter how many times you see that behind-the-back catch.

Sports fans looking for a different kind of baseball game will find MLB Slugfest 20-03 an interesting twist in a really great sport. Aside from the occasional repetitive feel, this is an amusing and wildly entertaining game. If you enjoy the Blitz games, you’ll enjoy this take on America’s past time.

MLB Slugfest 20-03 is the continuation of Midway’s diabolical plan to overhaul just every sport on the planet and add their own unique arcade twist to them, making a once normal sport off the wall, simple, and all about having fun. Football was covered with the originator, NFL Blitz, basketball has been portrayed in the NBA Showtime series, Hockey took the form of NHL Hitz, and finishing off the 4 major sports is the latest into their line-up, MLB Slugfest 20-03. And just like all the games before it, Slugfest turns out to be quite an entertaining and enjoyable game, even if it’s not for everyone.

The most satisfying arcade sports title to come out of the Midway offices as of yet, MLB SlugFest 20-03 does few things incorrectly. Brilliantly illustrated and animated, flawlessly announced, and a synch to get into, there is little holding the baseballer back.

In the end, MLB Slugfest 2003 is an incredibly appealing sports game. While it doesn't possess the sheer addictiveness of, say, NFL Blitz, it's simultaneously a breath of fresh air and a nostalgic look at the baseball game genre. If you haven't enjoyed a baseball game since the original Ken Griffey Jr. for the SNES, then Slugfest is the game you've been thirsting for.