{"id":129,"date":"2007-07-13T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/the-bigs-demo\/"},"modified":"2007-07-13T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T23:34:00","slug":"the-bigs-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/the-bigs-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bigs Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/i.i.com.com\/cnet.g2\/images\/2007\/176\/reviews\/936446_20070626_screen001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.i.com.com\/cnet.g2\/images\/2007\/176\/reviews\/936446_20070626_screen001.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I checked out the demo for The Bigs this afternoon and it was pretty fun.  I stink at it, but not as bad as I did with the MLB 2k7 demo.  It has a similar play style to the old Blitz games where players are making impossible catches, but without all the direct violence.  If you&#8217;re into baseball games but find them pretty difficult give this one a try.  I think The Bigs could be a lot of fun to play with a friend.  I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ll be getting it, but if I was over at a friend&#8217;s house and he had it I would not be opposed to playing him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out the demo for The Bigs this afternoon and it was pretty fun. I stink at it, but not as bad as I did with the MLB 2k7 demo. It has a similar play style to the old Blitz games where players are making impossible catches, but without all the direct violence. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}