Spring Training games have started and baseball is about to make that effortless slide from being a regular occupier of my thoughts to an almost constant one. Most things (annual leave, eating, sleeping etc) revolve around the baseball schedule from this point until the end of October and that’s just the way I like it.
So, reading news stories online, following Spring Training games, flicking through baseball books and writing about the sport still doesn’t come close to fulfilling my need for baseball. Looking for further baseball fixes, my attention turned to a new game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Big Hit Baseball was released just over a week ago and costs £1.19 on the UK Apple iTunes store, with a free ‘Lite’ version that limits the app to two teams and three-inning games.
The app was made by Square Enix and unsurprisingly follows a similar format to their Big Cup Cricket app.
It’s an arcade style game designed to provide a bit of baseball-related fun on a mobile device. You can’t control the base-running game nor do a great deal from the fielding perspective and tactics really aren’t a part of it. You can hit the ball, pitch and catch (the latter either jumping to catch it or via a dive) and that’s about all you would want to do on a game like this. Trying to control base-runners or selecting which fielder should go for the ball would probably make things a bit too fiddly. Continue reading