Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers (Wii) – Game Review & Giveaway CLOSED

About Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers

Backyard Sports is back with Sandlot Sluggers, an action-packed arcade style baseball game featuring your favorite Backyard Sports friends. Improved 3-D graphics, cool power-ups, and special next-gen features provide the kind of turbo-injected gameplay that will keep you swinging for more. Enter the never before seen Story mode and become a backyard legend. Parents can join in on the fun in an all new Family Co-op Mode. Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers offers hours of entertainment with laugh out loud comedic commentary and exaggerated animations for a one-of-a-kind gaming experience. The game is packed with loads of surprises and stars a neighborhood full of fun and diverse kids — both fan favorite characters and new friends.

Features:

• Enjoy a new version of baseball with super-charged powerups taking a twist on traditional gameplay
• Exercise your sense of humor as you play with comedic commentary, exaggerated animations and fun neighborhood characters
• Experience plenty of fun with 20+ hours of gameplay
• Multiplayer tournaments, five mini games, season mode, quick play and an all-new story mode offer multiple ways to enjoy this All-American pastime
• Conquer eight different fields and play in Pablo’s Yard and Quantum Field or on rooftops
• Family co-op mode offers fun for the whole gang, as your parents join the excitement
• Stunning visuals bring colorful settings to life for authentic gameplay

Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers is available for the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, and Nintendo DS.

Check out this latest trailer highlighting the stellar reviews Sandlot Sluggers has been receiving:

I don’t know how many times I’ve said it on here, but I love my Wii. I love having “fun” games to play, and I love the lack of “Nintenditis”, even though I get tennis elbow from time to time. It’s a great way to pass the time and have some indoor fun with my little boy on rainy days.

I’ve been looking for a sports game to play with my boy that was a little more advanced that the Wii Sports that came with the system, but nowhere near as difficult as some of the games out there. He’s 4 years old and would have too much trouble with the more advanced games on the market, and I’m a little too old to stay entertained with just swinging the wiimote haphazardly (which is about the sum of what you do with most Wii Sports games.

Enter “Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers” for the Wii console, one of the funnest baseball games I’ve played in a long time. Unlike the MLB simulator style games out there, it is not meant to be too “realistic”, where you can play as your favorite major league big hitter, or smell the stale peanuts and hotdogs while you are trying to figure out the right combination of button presses and wrist jerks to throw a low breaking ball to the inside. Instead it has great animations, hilarious commentaries, and characters just as diverse and different as the kids living in your own neighborhood. Instead of always playing in a digital replica of a major league park, you play in a neighborhood sandlot, a grass covered park, or even the culdesack where you park your car. And with all those kids in the neighborhood, don’t be upset when you have dents in your hood and fenders… you shouldn’t have parked on the street in the first place!

All in all it is a fun game, not too complicated, and not so simple that it gets boring. And when you tire of playing “America’s passtime”, there are plenty of mini-games in the mix to keep you interested and coming back for more. But as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. And while I’ve only written around 400 words in this review, I’ll give you a video so you can make up your own mind.

Disclosure: I would like to thank CeCe for providing me with a copy of Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers for the purpose of this review. All opinions are that of my own.

The Giveaway

CeCe has graciously offered to give one of Shawn Ann’s World readers their very own copy of Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers for Nintendo DS!

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This Giveaway will end on Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST.

The Winner will be chosen by Random.org. I will post the winner here on Shawn Ann’s World, as well as by email. The winner will then have 48 hours to claim their prize.