The actual quality of gameplay varies from card to card, of course, but you can play this one on everything from the lowliest ATI Rage to the fastest SLI Voodoo2 setup. VRB2K rivals like Hardball 6 and Triple Play 99 . Season play can only be customized by the length of the schedule. Stat tracking isn't spectacular, nor particularly deep. There's no print option.
Injuries are about the only concessions to reality here.
Players will wind up on the DL occasionally. They do possess 1997 stats, though. VR Sports is promising downloadable roster updates on Nov. 1, and April 1 and Sept. 1 next year. This is nice, but no real substitute for a simple utility allowing us to modify ratings and statistics as we see fit. There are three difficulty settings, each of which affects the speed of pitches, how you swing at them, and the overall realism of your game.