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Check swings are part of baseball, when the hitter decides, “Whoops, shouldn’t be doing this” at the very last second. However, 2K Sports didn’t find this necessary, and didn’t include them in 2K10, which many previews pointed out.

Now wonder the franchise is lagging behind MLB: The Show…

Anyway, after a small but assuredly vocal fan revolt, 2K Sports has stated they will include the feature after all, but not on the disc. It will be released as a patch later. The companies initial excuse for not including it?

The other batting features, such as “batter’s eye” and defensive swings were enough. In other words, certain features to add realism were enough to delete other features that add realism. Huh?

That said, the execution does seem questionable. Since this is an analog-swing system, you pull back, push forward, and if you decide to check, you have to pull back. More sense would be not pushing the stick up all the way, or not passing the halfway point of the swing. Maybe all of this analog stick stuff just isn’t meant to be…

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