MLB Home Run Derby Mobile 4+

Few Things Could Be Changed But Really Fun

First off, this game is really fun and really addicting. The players you play with participated in the real life HomeRun Derby(you can eventually unlock and play with non HomeRun Derby participates, but that takes major game progress). There’s a lot to accomplish as earning in game cash called “MLB Bucks” and completing game tasks are the main goals, in doing so you earn player cards that upgrade players and their ratings. There are 3 game modes: Arcade, Head to Head, and Full Derby Mode. Focus on the latter 2, but Arcade mode is good practice.

Some annoyances: To progress even quicker you will want to watch an ad from time time. Spending real life money on the game doesn’t hurt either(though not a requirement it does help). My biggest issue is the stadiums which look REALLY GOOD, can only be unlocked by spending real money. The game does give you the default All-Star Game stadium which is Seattle. However, after a while it does get kind of boring only playing in 1 stadium every time. What I did was buy the stadium of my favorite team, also another random stadium, as well as Seattle. It seems “MLB Bucks” would help with unlocking stadiums but unfortunately they don’t.
Overall I would give this game a 4.3 out of 5

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Good but flawed

This game is fun, but there are some issues that prevent replay value.

-Uniforms cost wayyyyy too much. I’ve been playing this game for a while and never gotten close to unlocking a uniform and frankly don’t really care about them. There are just too many of them that cost too much, and opening a pack of cards just to get a bunch of uniforms that you aren’t gonna get close to unlocking is annoying.

- Equipment is sooo hard to unlock. Again, I’ve been playing the game a while now, and I’ve unlocked maybe a single bat. Instead of equipment cards, I just get a bunch of uniform cards!!

- it should be possible to level up a player by playing with them a bunch instead of just waiting to get more of their cards. I think unlocking a legendary player would be cool, but unless you happen to get a bunch more of their cards (unlikely) they will always have mediocre stats. Players should level up from you playing well with them.

- having even a little control over which players/equipment you unlock would go a long way. It’s too random now. I could get two gold packs of cards and come away empty handed, and the odds of getting enough cards of one of the players I really want seem almost impossible, which makes me want to stop playing.

Fun game overall though! I kinda like the system of watching ads optionally to get more cards/coins.

Total Joke.

I first started playing this game a few months ago and loved it. I enjoyed the perks of winning and increasing my presence. That faded quickly. Aside from the pitches getting harder as your ab goes on, which I am fine with…it’s the other crap that makes this an insufferable app. First, there have been many times I would have 5 or 6 hr lead only to see that my opponent has tied..and sometimes past me both in number of homers and distance. Second, the app will let your opponent somehow see more pitches despite the same elapsed time. I tested this out and purposely would swing and miss at pitches in order to generate the next possible quickest pitch…I literally went down two home runs while I had only received one pitch. My advice to anyone playing. This game is rigged…you aren’t playing “head to head” against another live person..think about it, really how many people are actually playing the exact moment you are that would allow head to head play. Sad because this app has potential. My advice to the developers of this..you make your money from ads…just don’t make it obvious that this game is soooo rigged. Then again, it’s an mlb app and as a lifelong baseball fan it doesn’t surprise me that just like everything else, mlb screw up something that could benefit the game.