You can take full responsibility for your team’s actions, hitting and running, stealing, or intentionally walking, or you can simulate months at a time.Ĭombined with its depth, the game’s flexibility make OOTP one of the most replayable games you’ll ever find. You can also simulate entire innings, or up to a certain point in a game.
In addition to the ability to run the overall franchise, you can enter the individual game mode where you can take over the manager’s role, choosing strategies with each batter your team faces or sends to the plate. You can tinker with game strategy and lineup settings for hours, and scour waiver wires, free agent lists and trade possibilities for days. And when I say “fully customizable,” I mean it. OOTP is fully customizable, enabling you to delegate any tasks that you just don’t want to deal with. Want to play on your own or online with friends? It’s all up to you.Īs a GM/Manager you are responsible for all aspects of player acquisition, lineup management, pitching rotation management, and promotion/demotion, all while keeping an eye on your team’s financial health. Want to create a completely fictional world with independent leagues, minor leagues, college and high school leagues, a complete Japanese league all within a single world? You can do that too. Want to play with historical rosters and rules from the dead-ball era? Go for it.
There are many ways to play, and even within each way, there are a huge variety of variables that you can choose to set that will shape the way that your world operates. What makes OOTP so overwhelming at first is its flexibility. Despite being developed by a German company, OOTP offers deep statistical reports and analyses that give the player no end of information to pour over. They count everything.” For statistical geeks who want to know not only what happened but how and why, OOTP makes it easy to dissect everything that goes on in the game. To paraphrase fictional pitcher Billy Chapel,* “It’s baseball. I was WAY out of my depth as someone who only has a passing familiarity with soccer (living in Europe for a year forces you to pay some attention).īaseball is the perfect sport for this type of statistically based game. I can only imagine what a newbie might think when loading up the game: it must be similar to what I thought when I tried to play Football Manager. The game can be very overwhelming at first, especially if you’re not familiar with baseball. You only act as the General Manager and/or field manager for your team, but trust me. Do not mistake OOTP for one of these games you do not control the players’ actions yourself. It beats the management modes of MLB 2K games and MLB: The Show hands down. The OOTP Baseball series is a robust, statistics-based baseball simulator that makes for one of the deepest baseball management experiences available. While I primarily play version 13 in online leagues, I played version 14 in solo games and therefore, I can’t comment on online play. I have been playing OOTP Baseball since version 12 and have been mildly addicted it to it ever since. The second part discusses OOTP 14 as an upgraded version of this long-standing baseball simulation game’s last release, OOTP 13 and will delve into the changes and improvements made from last year’s edition. The first part talks about the game itself and is best read by those who are new to this game series.
This review of Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP) 14 is divided into two parts.
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