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Almost certainly the most popular NES baseball game, Tengen's (Atari) RBI Baseball combined solid gameplay with real player names and stats, both of which help it remain fun to play even today. The computer AI is horrible and not worth bothering with, the fielding takes a little while to get used to, and clearly the graphics are nothing to speak of (but I'm personally a fan of the tubby player models for some…
Does anyone actually need new racing gear? It's only $3 for a fairly wide selection of new outfits, and the real-life WRC and NASCAR ones are pretty cool, but given how rarely one can actually see themselves in their outfit, what's the point? Not worth spending real money on, but another decent addition to the complete DLC package.
As a part of the complete DLC package, these cars are a welcome addition, but on their own, not at all worth eight dollars. The Red Bull X2011 Prototype '11 is certainly exciting, but the '10 prototype awarded to celebrate Vettel's championship recently (for free) is almost the same vehicle, just a little slower and a little less Batmobile-ish. The remaining cars are three Go-Kart variants that don't really add…
If you're buying the complete pack of GT5 DLC, this is what you're probably really in it for. The detailed real-life Francorchamps course is a delight to race on (though I'm not a fan of driving in rainy conditions, it is available for this course and somebody must like doing that I guess). The Kart Space I and II are almost exactly the same track, with II simply having one less corner to worry about, but the course…
You may realize that unlike the other DLC that was released at the same time as this pack, the paint pack can be purchased multiple times. Why is that necessary? Because these are just like any of the other paint chips in-game, one-use only items that you can't even preview before applying them permanently to a car. For this reason, it's a very frustrating DLC package. But there are tons of colors included, and…
