Baseball Highlights: 2045 (2015)
(2015)Gryphon Games, Eagle Games, Eagle-Gryphon Games
Baseball Highlights: 2045 plays like watching TV highlights of early 21st-century baseball games, featuring a themed experience with no outs or innings. Players build a championship baseball team filled with Naturals, Cyborgs, and Robots, combining strategy and tactics to win the series.
The Verdict
based on 20 reviews
Unlike some other sports games that focus on the play-by-play of a game or day-by-day of a season, Baseball Highlights 2045 cranks the pace up.
“My number two game is baseball highlights 2045 I really really enjoy this game so you have this deck of cards and as your as you play your games you're gonna get money to be able to put new cards in there”
“Baseball Highlights 2045 is the best sports-based board game I've ever played, and 1 of my favorite deck-builders out there. It's smart, it's fun, and it offers the tactical decision-making I'm looking for in a sports game without all the complexity that can bog down a first play.”
“Very Man, I love this game. I love the baseball theme. I love the artwork. I love how fast and easy it is. I like how the game builds and builds and gets more exciting”(12:27)
“If you like baseball even at all, you have got to play this game. It is a baseball lover's dream in a board game. I mean, it is just so cool, it's so thematic just in terms of baseball.”(22:35)
“Without a doubt, Mike Fitzgerald hit a home run with Baseball Highlights:2045. If your game nights are getting bland, or you are looking for a great two player card game”
In summary, Baseball Highlights: 2045 is not merely a game, but a vessel for creating lasting bonds. Without hesitation, I highly recommend it.
“It’s light without pandering, intense without taking itself (or its theme) seriously, and, if you just toss the components into a plastic bag as I did, quite portable.”
“I love everything about this game. I play this game at least 50 times my lifetime, I could play it a hundred times more, I will never get tired of it. It's so clever in this deck building.”
The reviewer presents Baseball Highlights: 2045 as an engaging and fast-paced deck-building experience that successfully combines sports theme mechanics with futuristic elements.
“I really, really, really, really like this game.”(9:36)
“I've had a ton of fun playing this game solo, and am seriously considering ordering some more starter teams (Chicago!). Not only does Baseball Highlights: 2045 offer a fun challenge, but the pacing of the game creates tense, quick rounds that make you want to keep playing.”
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