High Heat Baseball 2000

High Heat Baseball 2000 is a video game released in 1999, and is the second game in the High Heat Major League Baseball video game series.

High Heat Baseball 2000
Developer(s)Team .366
Publisher(s)The 3DO Company
SeriesHigh Heat Major League Baseball
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, PlayStation
Release
  • NA: March 31, 1999
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

Reception

The PC version received "favorable" reviews, while the PlayStation version received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[1][2] In Computer Gaming World, Dave Salvator wrote, "HH2K has so much going for it that if you're a hard-core baseball fan looking to get in the action, the game says hello like the business end of a Louisville Slugger."[6]

Daily Radar's Andrew S. Bub described the PC version as a commercial disappointment.[19] It sold 46,238 copies in the U.S. by the end of 1999, according to PC Data.[20] Bub wrote, "Shame on you for letting EA Sports' all-flash-no-substance Triple Play 2000 outsell this gem."[19]

The PC version won Computer Gaming World's 1999 "Sports Game of the Year" award,[21] and was a runner-up in the magazine's overall "Game of the Year" category.[22] The staff declared it "simply one of the best games of the year. Period."[21] PC Gamer US likewise named it the best sports game of 1999, and wrote that it "marked the series' transformation into one of the most complete sports sims on the market."[23] Computer Games Strategy Plus declared it the "Sports Game of the Year", and its staff described it as "the most playable, most enjoyable, and flat out best arcade baseball game that you can buy".[24] PC Accelerator and GameSpot also named it the sports game of the year.[25] It was also a finalist for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' "Computer Sports Game of the Year" award, which was ultimately given to FIFA 2000.[26]

References
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  5. Abner, William (April 27, 1999). "High Heat Baseball 2000". Computer Games Strategy Plus. Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on April 6, 2005.
  6. Salvator, Dave (July 1999). "Goin' to the Show (High Heat Baseball 2000 Review" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 180. Ziff Davis. p. 140. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  7. EGM staff (1999). "High Heat Baseball 2000". Electronic Gaming Monthly. Ziff Davis.
  8. "High Heat Baseball 2000 (PS)". Game Informer. No. 74. FuncoLand. June 1999. Archived from the original on May 22, 2000. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  9. Higgins, Geoff "El Nino" (June 1999). "High Heat Baseball 2000 (PS)". GameFan. Vol. 7, no. 6. Shinno Media. p. 72. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  10. Olafson, Peter (1999). "High Heat [Baseball] 2000 Review for PC on GamePro.com". GamePro. IDG Entertainment. Archived from the original on September 28, 2004. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  11. Leong, George (June 1999). "High Heat Baseball 2000 Review (PS)". GameRevolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  12. Ryan, Michael E. (May 6, 1999). "High Heat Baseball 2000 Review (PC) [date mislabeled as "May 1, 2000"]". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on February 15, 2009. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  13. MacDonald, Ryan (June 3, 1999). "High Heat Baseball 2000 Review (PS) [date mislabeled as "April 28, 2000"]". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  14. Bates, Jason (April 9, 1999). "High Heat Baseball 2000 (PC)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  15. Perry, Douglass C. (May 21, 1999). "High Heat Baseball 2000 (PS)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  16. Kujawa, Kraig (July 1999). "High Heat Baseball 2000". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. Vol. 2, no. 10. Ziff Davis. p. 63. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  17. PCA staff (June 1999). "High Heat [Baseball] 2000". PC Accelerator. No. 10. Imagine Media. p. 99. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
  18. Smolka, Rob (July 1999). "High Heat Baseball 2000". PC Gamer. Vol. 6, no. 7. Imagine Media. p. 101. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  19. Bub, Andrew S. (January 3, 2000). "Andrew's Views Presents the First Annual "System Shocks and Trespassers Awards"". Daily Radar. Imagine Media. Archived from the original on March 3, 2000.
  20. PC Gamer staff (April 2000). "PC Gamer Editors' Choice Winners: Does Quality Matter?". PC Gamer. Vol. 7, no. 4. Imagine Media. p. 33. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  21. CGW staff (March 2000). "The 2000 Premier Awards (Sports Game of the Year)" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 188. Ziff Davis. p. 80. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  22. CGW staff (March 2000). "The 2000 Premier Awards (Inside the Smoke-Filled Offices of CGW)". Computer Gaming World. No. 188. Ziff Davis. p. 71.
  23. PC Gamer staff (March 2000). "The Sixth Annual PC Gamer Awards (Best Sports Game)". PC Gamer. Vol. 7, no. 3. Imagine Media. p. 54. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  24. CGSP staff (March 6, 2000). "The Computer Games Awards Feature: Sports Game of the Year". Computer Games Strategy Plus. Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on April 1, 2005. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  25. "High Heat Baseball(TM) 2000 Named Best Computer Sports Game in a Clean Sweep". The 3DO Company. March 1, 2000. Archived from the original on April 17, 2001.
  26. "Third Interactive Achievement Awards: Personal Computer". Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on September 3, 2000. Retrieved June 10, 2021.


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