Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001

Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001 is a video game released in 2000, and is the third game in the High Heat Major League Baseball video game series. It was the first game in the series to feature then-Chicago Cubs right fielder Sammy Sosa on the cover.

Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001
Developer(s)Team .366
Publisher(s)The 3DO Company
SeriesHigh Heat Major League Baseball
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, PlayStation
ReleaseWindows
  • NA: March 7, 2000
  • EU: June 30, 2000[1]
Championship Edition
PlayStation
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.[4][5] GamePro called the PC version "a good game that's left on the verge of becoming a great one."[23][lower-alpha 3]

Brad Cook of AllGame gave the PC version four stars out of five, saying that it was "definitely worth picking up if you're a diehard baseball fan. The ability to play out current players' careers and get them into the Hall of Fame while nurturing the paths of newcomers is worth the purchase price alone."[24] However, Mark Kanarick gave the PlayStation version three-and-a-half stars, saying, "Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001 is really on its way up. If the developers can take care of some control issues for next year's version, they may really have a winner to compete with the 'Big Two.'"[25]

The staff of Computer Games Magazine nominated the PC version for their 2000 "Sports Game of the Year" award, whose winner remains unknown.[26] It won the award for Sports at Computer Gaming World's 2001 Premier Awards.[27] The game was a runner-up for GameSpy's "2000 Sports Game of the Year", which went to PGA Championship Golf 2000. The staff called it "the best action baseball game to ever grace a PC."[28]

Notes
  1. In Electronic Gaming Monthly's review of the PlayStation version, one critic gave it 5/10, two gave it each a score of 4/10, and another gave it 3/10.
  2. In GameFan's viewpoint of the PlayStation version, one critic gave it a score of 74, and the other 63.
  3. GamePro gave the PC version two 3.5/5 scores for graphics and sound, and two 4/5 scores for control and overall fun factor.

References
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  8. Abner, William (March 27, 2000). "Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001". Computer Games Strategy Plus. Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on May 30, 2003. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  9. Price, Tom (June 2000). "Turning up the Heat (Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001 Review)" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 191. Ziff Davis. pp. 98–99. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  10. Hager, Dean; Zuniga, Todd; Leahy, Dan; Kujawa, Kraig (May 2000). "Sammy Sosa's High Heat Baseball 2001 [sic]" (PDF). Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 130. Ziff Davis. p. 151. Retrieved May 18, 2022.
  11. Ellis, Keith "DNM" (July 29, 2000). "Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001 (PC)". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on August 16, 2000. Retrieved May 18, 2022.
  12. "Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001 (PS)". Game Informer. No. 85. FuncoLand. May 2000.
  13. Higgins, Geoff "El Nino"; Jacques Strap (June 2000). "[Sammy Sosa] High Heat Baseball 2001". GameFan. Vol. 8, no. 6. Shinno Media. p. 96. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
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  21. Salmon, Mike (June 2000). "Sammy Sosa's High Heat Baseball 2001 [sic]". PC Accelerator. No. 22. Imagine Media. p. 87. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  22. Smolka, Rob (June 2000). "Sammy Sosa's High Heat 2001 [sic]". PC Gamer. Vol. 7, no. 6. Imagine Media. pp. 78–80. Archived from the original on March 15, 2006. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  23. Olafson, Peter (June 13, 2000). "Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001 Review for PC on GamePro.com". GamePro. IDG Entertainment. Archived from the original on April 13, 2005. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  24. Cook, Brad. "Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001 (PC) - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  25. Kanarick, Mark. "Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball 2001 (PS) - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 16, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  26. CGM staff (February 8, 2001). "Computer Games Magazine announces nominees for annual best in computer gaming awards". Computer Games Strategy Plus. Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on February 9, 2005. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  27. CGW staff (April 2001). "The 2001 Premier Awards: Games of the Year (Sports)" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 201. Ziff Davis. p. 77. Retrieved December 21, 2021.
  28. GameSpy staff (December 2000). "2000 Sports Game of the Year (Runners-Up)". GameSpy. GameSpy Industries. Archived from the original on March 31, 2001. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
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