MLB Slam (#Screen Shots)

THQ and Hexacto Games have teamed up to produce a licensed baseball game called MLB Slam! for Nokia's N-Gage.
The game's quick start mode lets you get into a baseball game without any real fuss. You simply choose a difficulty setting and you're on your way. But if you want to get a little deeper than that, MLB Slam! has plenty of additional options. Spring training lets you play an exhibition game. The game's season mode lets you play a full season or a condensed season. Home run derby mode lets you play in a pure hitting competition against a computer player, though you don't actually see the computer-controlled batter hit. The dream team mode lets you spend cash--presumably earned in other modes--to purchase players from other teams and construct your own superteam. On top of all that, the game has support for two-player games via the N-Gage's built-in Bluetooth support.

The gameplay follows the standard cursor-based approach taken by most modern baseball games. When pitching you'll see a box that marks the strike zone, and you'll be able to select from one of three pitches. Once you've selected your pitch, you can move a cursor around to pick your pitch placement. Once you've done that, pressing the 5 key causes your pitcher to begin his pitch, and a power meter then appears. Letting go of 5 releases the ball. On the batting side, you've got a large box that you can move around the strike zone, and the 5 key swings the bat while the 7 key bunts. Better batters have larger boxes, but since the pitch comes in so slowly, getting the cursor right on the pitch is easy

For further information on the games offered for the Nokia N-Gage see the Official Nokia N-Gage Website by clicking the link.