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Amaroq -> RE: Why should I buy puresim? (5/12/2006 2:41:57 AM)
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The big difference between PureSim and its closest competitor, Out of the Park Baseball, is that they are primarily *General Manager* sims. The first goal of both games was to let you play out twenty years of baseball history in a reasonable amount of time. They've both 'gone back' and put in a lot of in-game management options, which will allow you to scale it down to a single season, a single series, or even a single game if you want to - but they're both aimed at recreating the epic scope of baseball history - players devlop and age, teams draft, trade, and play free agency - rather than recreating a single game.
Games such as Diamond Mind Baseball are aimed at taking a player's single-season statistics, and translating that into a simulation which would recreate that player's statistics relatively accurately if you replayed the entire season.. but giving you a finer control over the single game management options. They're aimed at a single game or series with a single season as the largest logical unit they support, and no aging model. They're primarily *Manager* sims.
Games such as EA's "MLB 2005" are aimed at letting the (human) player control each individual on the field as they move. You are the pitcher, you are the hitter. They're aimed at a single game as well, but are primarily *Player* sims.. or 'twitch' games, as they're known.
If you're all about graphical glamour and glitz, you want the twitch game.
If you're interested in pure statistical accuracy and replaying the World Series from a specific year, you want Diamond Mind.
If you're interested in an engrossing long-term game which begins to develop its own history, you want PureSim or Out of the Park.
Hope that helps!
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