Sports Reviews

Tired of the same old batter at the plate pose for your McFarlane baseball figures? Well, this MLB Series 6 Figure of Sammy Sosa is certainly unique because nobody else does the little hop out of the batters box after going long ball like the Cubs slugging right fielder. As a nice touch, Sosa's black (uncorked) bat is also about to hit the ground, although I suppose it could be bouncing up in the air as well. One of the strengths of the McFarlane figures has always been the details, and you can see all of the blades of grass on the side of the base, just like it was lifted out of the ground from whatever field the Cubbies are visiting. I always like the way the uniforms look.

McFarlane put out a Sammy Sosa figure with the first series, which showed the Cubs slugger at the plate earlier in his post-swing after bashing another long ball over Waveland Avenue. So this Series 6 figure would come after that one, except in the first one Sosa had the blue Cubs jersey and this one has the road grey (a white/pin-stripped version in also available). Ironically, I always liked the way Sosa stands coiled at the bat waiting for the pitch, so I would not have minded that being selected as the pose. On the other hand, what other McFarlane sports figure can you use to make snow angels? There are also figures of Sosa's Cub teammates Kerry Wood and Mark Prior, so you might as well make an effort to track down the big three of the Chicago Northside.

Macfarlane Toys started putting these figures out a few years ago, and continually improve the quality in my opinion. I still remember the first set, which were not licensed by MLB. The Mark McGwire figure was amazingly perfect in depicting his swing, but the Sammy Sosa figure was a bit less impressive.

This figure captures AMAZING quality of detail: the face even looks exactly like Sammy Sosa. We have all seen the "hop" when Sosa connects with one of his long drives, and this figure captures that trademark of Sosa's effectively.

I just hope that Macfarlane can pull off production of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, and most of all - Ted Williams.

Those would be classics.

This Troy Glaus action figure is a wonderful symbol of the Angels 2002 World Series Championship. Who better to serve as that symbol than Troy Glaus, the World Series MVP? The attention to detail is amazing. This is a great toy for 50 year old Angel fans like me. If you like Troy Glaus of the Angels, you will love this action figure portraying Glaus just as he is about to take his home run trot. I understand that a Garrett Anderson figure is comming out this summer. Go Angels!

The Anaheim Angels paid attention to all of the important details in their journey to the 2002 World Series Championship title. Mcfarlane toys captures all of the right details of the 2002 World Series MVP. In my area these toys are nowhere to be found on store shelves so it was great to be able to get this product from Toys R Us Online /Amazon. The product is so cool that I've got one for myself as well as my son. Get yours while supplies last!

I bought this game in the bargin bin a week ago for less than ten bucks. Normally a game bought for so little would end up in my cd-rom case of shame, where I keep some of the most sour of lemons ever to be etched into plastic. Apon installing this game I found the exact opposite to be true. This game is really fun. I don't know basketball to save my life, but I had fun with this title. I'm eagerly awaiting Fox to release 2001.

If you are looking for a great NBA Basketball game this season, NBA Basketball 2000 is it. The graphics are great. The players have their actual faces! The controls are smooth and easy. The overall gameplay is great. It has all of the stadiums. The announcers sound real, and so does the crowd. It does have the 1-1 feature, but that is the only part I do not like. You can trade, create, and edit players. Overall, this game is a great buy.

I think that this game is most likely the best Genesis game. The four new logos and their home courts are great for a 16-bit game. EA and THQ should have made a 16-Bit version of Live '99 because many people are not able to own Playstations or N64s. I wish that I could find a copy of Live '98 from someone that dosen't want it.

this game is not only awsome, but it's also the first game to have the new rookies like Tim Duncan and Keith Van Horn! a collector's item?

I think this game is good for anyone who loves the colege sports. Especially football. I like this game because it has good graphics. It also has all players and players to draft.

This game is a big improvement over the last two! The graphics are great and it really feels like a college game. It is not as user-friendly as Gameday, but college fans will eat up every minute that is offered.

Trying to make a 'Blitz' suitable for everyone, has made a game that no one will want to play. You buy a Blitz for the unabashed and totally NON-PC violence, kicking, punching and general mayhem. This sanitized pap will revolt Blitz fans, and fans of 'real' Football games will not like it.

Buy this game when it hits the $1.99 bargin bin. Which should be Dec. 26 when stores are tying to unload a warehouse full of these coasters.

the game is tite because you can pick no first down as a cheat and you can put tite cheats and you can get on fire and knock somebody helmet off and the only way to do that is to sack the QB and you get to ingur people and they call in new people to take there place and there cheerleader now and couchs to and there people celebrate on the side line and when the people are down you can hit them and there is a another cheat that you get to run out of bounce

This is a great football game. The graphics kick and the realism is very well done. I would have given it a 4 and half because I only have a few problems with it. Problem 1 On rookie it lets you learn the controls and get the feel, but once you get good at it, you will smoke the computer. on vet. the game play gets tougher, you need to understand football pretty good, and call the right plays, for example you cannot blitz the house all the time you have to lay back and wait sometimes, because computer will throw a [curve] and beat you everytime, [] not every Dback is as fast as the recievers and sometimes you have to have 2 people cover the reciever or your going to get smoked. But i've gotten to good for this level, I win by at least 20 points. This is where I have a problem with the game All pro game mode [isn't very fun]. The computer players are nothing short of gods, you hit them they stumble and keep running, they stiff arm everything, and when you are on offence good luck getting 10 yards. This is not only the good players this is everyone so every game you play you are playing the best team there is I have won on this mode put not very often, and I really couldnt do anything about it. I guess its difficult to make a game hard without having the computer cheat.
Problem 2 When I break open a good run and get out in front of everyone and run I can never take it in for the score, someone always runs me down, however this is not true for the computer if they break a run on you say goodbye, I had a lineman run down Trung Canidate one day(his speed on my career mode is up to like 96) that really gets on my bad side.
Problem 3 There are no red flags? what is up with that? if madden could do it, why cant you? I really didnt understand that one, however I did notice in madden sometimes the ref. makes really really bad calls almost blatently, just to make you throw the flag, and that gets old.

Other than that, I would only add in some new tackles for effect and then I would say you could have the best football game ever. If anyone tells you madden is better tell them they are getting to old, because the controls and speed of this game blow madden outta the water, football is a fast fast game, and madden plays like my grandpa and his friends are out on the field. Also in madden the run game is non existent, and you can put together a really good running game on fever. So get fever for what like 20 bucks now right? and then wait for next season, (Browns all the way baby)

this combo pack is the best xbox combo pack ever

Great 2 pack of two NFLers. Brooks looks like he is chasing Gannon down. while Gannon is running for his life just like in Super Bowl 37. Which Brooks's Bucs won.

My how the mighty have fallen. Once again the NFL quest for parity has brought us to another season when the two teams that were in last year's Super Bowl did not even make the playoffs. But the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders embraced this turnaround to such an extent that neither team had a winning record and the Raiders get the honor of having the worst record for a Super Bowl team in history. But it was not even a year ago that the Bucs defense destroyed the Raiders in the Super Bowl. Maybe Tampa Bay fans can find some small measure of solace in this NFL Figures 2-Pack from McFarlane Toys that has last year's defensive player of the year linebacker Derreck Brooks zeroing in on the small of the back of Oakland quarterback Rich Gannon. Actually you have some flexibility with these figures, because you can turn Gannon around and have Brooks about to level him from behind. For Bucs fans that is going to be the better setup for this pair of figures (Raiders fans could prefer the other setup simply because it allows you to maintain the illusion that Gannon is actually going to get this pass away). So the question is whether you want Gannon's open mouth to represent the sight of an open receiver or the fact Brooks is about to take off the upper half of his body.

As always, the detail on these figures is pretty impressive. Notice that Gannon's fingers are not completely on the football, that his veins are bulging on his throwing arm, and that Brooks has a breathe right strip on his nose. You will also find dirt on strategic parts of each uniform, another defining element of these figures from McFarlane. The Gannon and Brooks figures are each pretty good all by themselves (I know there is an individual figure of Gannon in the Raiders' black jersey), but this is a nice set. There is at least one other similar set out there, with Brett Farve and Brian Urlacher (so you know the QB got the pass away in that set). So, the bottom line is that Bucs fans can pick this up and actaully have something to show for this year's postseason. Besides, it could be worse this morning. You could be Vikings fans...

I've collected a number of McFarlane figures, and this Owen Nolan figure has got to be one of the best I've seen so far. He's captured coming over the boards, most likely during a shift change(unless he was knocked over the boards). The attention paid to the detail of this figure is outstanding. This is the first McFarlane figure that you can look at and, without reading the back of the jersey, actually tell that it is Owen Nolan. Most of the figures come close to an actual likeness, but this one is almost dead on.

I highly recommend this figure to anyone who loves collecting McFarlane figures. It is one of the best so far. If you love the Maple Leafs, or hockey in general, I recommend this figure.

I love this figure...the beauty of the McFarlanes is the careful attention to details, and unique sculpture of each player. This particular player, Owen Nolan, is sculpted coming off the bench, no doubt to score another goal for my favorite NHL team, the Toronto Maple Leafs. The McFarlanes are sturdy, lifelike, and great display pieces!

I love this item!These are even better than yu-gi-oh cards.I gave it 5 stars in fun because you can it is very fun and you can now play two vs. two. I started to like pokemon cards when I was 5, then I stopped liking it when I was 8.But these new ex cards are so great I have started to like them again. This has the new hoenn pokemon including poochyena, swellow, and delcatty. It even has 2 torchics,2 combuskens, and 2 blazikens. Combusken and Blaziken both can do 80 damage with blaziken's flamethrower-80 damage- and combusken's double kick-40x number of heads when 2 coins are fipped!!!Although it comes with only 6 fire pokemon it also has 12 fire energies. Along with fire are 6 fighting pokemon(4 makuhitas and 2 hariyamas). The hariyamas can paralyze and do 20 damage with shove and 40+ number of heads when 2 coins are flipped. Also included are 8 colorless pokemon who are extremely useful in 2 vs.2 battles, 2 poochyenas(dark pokemon)a few trainers, 12 fighting energies and a holographic(randomly selected)card. A total of 61 cards.The educational value is rated 4 'cause there is some reading, alot of thinking, and alot of very basic math- multiplication, addition,subtraction, and I'm not very sure about division. Durability is 1 because you can just rip these cards up. Ovarall this an exellent item and has good value( Where else can you buy pokemon that can do 80 damage and are others whom are very good for just a few dollars?

The Pokemon Trading Card Game is an excellent and highly underrated collectable card game, based on the hit video game. Though for the most part the Pokemon franchise is pure garbage (just look at the godawful TV series), the RPG video games and the card game are pure gold. This is a starter deck for players new to the card game. Read on to see how this set measures up.

PROS:
-If you're new to the Pokemon card game and don't have adequate cards or knowledge of the game to assemble your own deck, this starter deck makes an excellent alternative.
-You get counters that make marking damage during the game easier, as well as light coin that's easier to flip than standard American money coins are.
-It's a good value.
-This also makes a good set if you're a guy like me who has been away from the card game for a while, and has missed out on recent expansions, as well as the new card types and rules that go along with them.

CONS:
-The only thing really wrong with this set is that it doesn't include any sort of playing surface. Playing surfaces greatly help new players of the game.
-If you're strictly a collector of the cards (and not a game player), you should stick to buying booster packs.

OVERALL:
If you're new to the game, this makes an excellent way to start. Buy this, then buy some booster packs, and you can mix and match the deck to your liking. With just a few alterations, you can make the finest Pokemon card deck the world has ever seen!