Metacritic Games

Backyard Baseball (GameCube)

The roar of the crowd. The warm summer air. The dirt on your pants. Backyard Baseball brings the excitement of summer ball games to the GameCube – with all new 3D graphics! Catch all the great baseball excitement with the Backyard Kids and real pro baseball players as kids. Pick your team, position players and choose a field to play on for single games or an entire season. Choose from all 30 MLB teams or create your own winning line-up with custom team names and uniforms. It's the chance of a lifetime to play with the pros right in your own backyard! Game Features: Choose from all 30 Major League Baseball teams! Pick from 30 Backyard Kids or 10 PRO players as kids - Sammy Sosa, Randy Johnson, Mike Piazza, Shawn Green, Barry Bonds, Ichiro, Pedro Martinez, Alex Rodriquez, Derek Jeter and Jim Thome. Play Single Games or a whole season! Create and save custom players! Track player and team stats in Season play! Cool 3D environments! Gameplay with rumble feedback. Play Home Run Derby Practice mode and cool unlockables. [Atari]

Atari
Sports, Baseball
Players: 2
E (Everyone)
Developer: Humongous Entertainment
Released April 2, 2003

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

70 / 100

Critic Reviews

85 Gamezilla!
The player graphics are absolutely adorable and the whole package is loaded with vibrant colors and comical animations.
78 GameZone
A nice mix of strategy, options and not-too-difficult play make this an enjoyable family game.
68 Nintendo Power
The game's intuitive control makes it easy to pick up and play for gamers of any age or skill level. [May 2003, p.139]
50 All Game Guide
The hitting interface isn’t perfect, the modes of play are extremely limited, and the pace of the game is brought to a grinding halt whenever the loading sequences appear, which occurs early and often.