Play Major League with Out of the Park Baseball 9 Mac Game

Want to see what it feels like to be on top of the game? Then play Out of the Park Baseball 9 (ESRB: E) for Mac. OOTP 9 was released on June 18th, and is the sequel to PC Gamer Magazine and Metacritic’s “PC Sports Game of the Year 2007.” This is probably one of the best fantasy baseball games on the market today. It offers unparalleled flexibility in creating your own baseball world.

OOTP 9 is simply the closest most people will ever get to being the general manager of a real baseball team. Handle GM tasks like drafts, trades, scouting, waivers, team finances and personnel. Negotiate player contracts. Or, dive into the more hands-on management and set your team’s lineups, pitching staffs, and in-game strategy. You can oversee your league at a high level, or play out each game, managing pitch by pitch while reading the great play-by-play commentary and listening to high-quality crowd sound effects. OOTP 9 also has a vibrant and helpful user community, and an active one that creates a vast number of user customizations that you can use to further improve your gaming experience, including special roster sets, logos, player images, and more.

You can play solo with a baseball world of your own creation: make a simple, 8-team league, play a typical major league game with real 2008 rosters, create a historical league with real players from any year between 1901 and 2007 or build an enormous world with baseball leagues in multiple countries. For the ultimate challenge, join an online league and test your mettle against other human players!

The game has no limits, you can guide your team into the infinite future. Start a league with 2008 major league rosters and real players down to the rookie leagues. Set your line-ups. Replace that aging veteran with a rookie from your minor leagues. Put your injured starter on the disabled list and scout the waiver wire for someone to fill that roster spot. Put that disgruntled star heading for free agency on the trade block, and see what shakes out. Negotiate contracts with free agents and extensions with your own players. Set your scouting budget, and have your scouting director get a closer look at that free agent pitcher from Japan.

OOTP uses Retrosheet ball locations to calculate where the ball is hit once put in play. OOTP 9 will allow you to set these exact locations in the ballpark editor so it matches the ballpark image used. Now, when playing a game in broadcast mode, you see where the ball is heading using a simple but effective ball animation! This works at all play-by-play speeds, and even if you selected the short play-by-play mode. When using instant play-by-play, the final destination of the ball is indicated properly. Now you can finally see where that 450-foot home run ended up in the stands!

OOTP 9 introduces a feature that is great for solo players and even better for online league participants. The game now allows you to store complete game replays either automatically (using similar setting like box scores, i.e. just human teams, human leagues etc.) or manually. These replay files include the complete play-by-play, ball locations for the animation and sound effects. The replays are shown in a screen similar to the broadcast game screen, so you can re-live all those exciting moments. Storing replays manually works as well, and allows you to share your greatest games with the community. Replay files even include the final box scores, so after watching a game that you got from a friend you can see the final numbers easily.

For online leagues the replays are included in the online league files, including an additional setting to the schedule screen to hide final scores, so you could update your league file, then jump into the schedule screen and watch the simulated games without knowing the result! That’s extra excitement added for people who love playing in online leagues.

OOTP Baseball 9 can be purchased directly from OOTP 9 Mac’s web store for $39.99. You can also view screenshots of this game with video and game tutorials here.

System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
Mac OS X 10.4.4 for Intel Macs (10.4.8 or higher recommended).