Backyard Sports - Baseball 2007
Backyard Sports - Baseball 2007 is a PlayStation 2 sports game released in 2006 developed by Humongous Entertainment. It centers on competitive sport controls, sport controls, and shifts between attack and defense, with controls and information arranged around the DualShock 2 twin analog sticks, directional pad, shoulder and face buttons, with a dedicated peripheral only where explicitly required.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.0 / 10
About this game
Backyard Sports - Baseball 2007 is a PlayStation 2 sports game centered on competitive sport controls, sport controls, and shifts between attack and defense. Matches, challenges, and tournament goals give sessions clear boundaries, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Players, venues, animation, and score feedback establish the match atmosphere, while 3D scenes, streamed data, cinematics, surround audio, and interlaced television output need to preserve action and state readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that opponent ai, control precision, multiplayer accessories, and period-specific rosters can affect consistency. Platform conditions also include DVD loading, the 8MB Memory Card, analog sticks and pressure-sensitive buttons, Multitap, Network Adapter, dedicated peripherals, and retired online services affect present-day use. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Backyard Sports brings neighborhood games to life with teams of colorful kid athletes. Baseball, soccer, American football and other sports share a playful spirit, with familiar faces and surprising power-ups giving each match its own personality.
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Friendly baseball with a learning curve behind the fun
Backyard Baseball makes the sport approachable through child-sized teams and exaggerated batting and pitching bonuses. Different swing and pitch choices still matter, but assisted fielding can move a player into catching position, and base-aligned buttons make throws easier to understand. Custom players, seasons, home-run challenges and fielding exercises provide reasons to keep learning. Ball trails and status colors help explain the action. The friendly tone does not remove every hurdle: swing timing and special bonuses require practice, and a slow fielder chasing the ball can be irritating. Lively voices also compete with the commentary instead of always complementing it. This suits families and casual players looking for playful baseball, rather than anyone wanting the detail and discipline of a serious simulation.
Strengths
- Fielding assistance and clear base buttons
- Playful batting/pitching bonuses
- Seasons and short practice challenges
Weaknesses
- Timing and bonuses require learning
- Frustrating slow ball retrieval
- Overlapping chatter and commentary
Who it is for: Families and casual players seeking playful, approachable baseball.
Play notes: Fielding assistance does not automate every input; no present-day frame rate or failure-rate verification is claimed.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Seasons, custom players and short challenges provide approachable continuing goals. | Reviewed | 7.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Accessible baseball choices and playful bonuses work, although timing takes practice. | Reviewed | 7.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Ball trails and status colors aid readability, but overlapping chatter muddles audio. | Reviewed | 6.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Autosave and assistance/settings reduce friction, though slow field recovery interrupts rhythm. | Reviewed | 7.4 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Humongous
- Publisher
- Atari
- Release date
- 2006
- Platforms
- PlayStation 2
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Sports · Primary genre
- Tags
- Player versus Player3D GraphicsSolo-friendlyFast-pacedSports-based PlayReplayableShort SessionsLow Entry BarrierMain Story Under 10 HoursPick-up and Play
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 2Worldwide2006
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Sources
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