Hardball 6 is supported on both the NetAccolade service and Mplayer with the 6.01 patch. Graphics, Sounds, etc. Hardball 6 is 3D accelerated. This has to be the worst use of 3D acceleration I've ever seen. Textures are applied haphazardly, the crowd looks like great big chunky boxes, flags and scoreboards are pixelicious, and players are flat, lifeless polygonal blobs.
Animations are crude at best.
Players run to field the ball, but once they reach a spot they simply rotate in place, feet spread apart. Yeah, that's really good. Even the stadium art, supposedly a great benefit of the title since each stadium in the Major Leagues is modelled, looks awful. While you can indeed tell which stadium you are in, more or less, you only get a sense of the feel of the place. It's all so rudimentary, even in 3D and MMX-enhanced mode, that you can't help but feel a little bit cheated.