Sacha ices a bruised ego with a can of Bud while Lesley strikes out the next victim.

World Series Baseball 2K3
This game is one of our favorites, but not because we like baseball. In fact, I don’t understand the sport at all: There’s no incentive to hit the ball because once you do you have to run. Rather, we like the game because it is easy to play.

Sacha and Lesley started in regular video mode. Immediately, Lesley began to steal bases, which Sacha couldn’t figure out how to stop, provoking Sacha to hit Lesley in the shoulder … hard. A few innings and a few beers later, we anxiously switched over to 720p mode. Right away we noticed a difference. The menu screens and logos were all clearer, exceptionally so. It’s not that the game had poor graphics to start with, but rather that in 720p mode it came alive! The crowd, the players’ facial features and shadows were all more distinct. As my brother always says, life is about pixels, and in 720p, they started to disappear. The colors were also richer. (Sure, our blood-alcohol levels were increasing, but I felt we were still able to make a fair assessment.)