''High Heat Baseball 2000'' is a video game released in 1999, and is the second game in the '' High Heat Major League Baseball'' video game series.

Gameplay

Reception

The PC version received "favorable" reviews, while the PlayStation version received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website

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'', Dave Salvator wrote, "''HH2K'' has so much going for it that if you're a hard-core baseball fan looking to get in the action, the game says hello like the business end of a Louisville Slugger." '' Daily Radar''s Andrew S. Bub described the PC version as a commercial disappointment. It sold 46,238 copies in the U.S. by the end of 1999, according to PC Data. Bub wrote, "Shame on you for letting EA Sports' all-flash-no-substance ''

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'' outsell this gem." The PC version won ''Computer Gaming World''s 1999 "Sports Game of the Year" award, and was a runner-up in the magazine's overall "Game of the Year" category. The staff declared it "simply one of the best games of the year. Period." '' PC Gamer US'' likewise named it the best sports game of 1999, and wrote that it "marked the series' transformation into one of the most complete sports sims on the market." ''

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'' declared it the "Sports Game of the Year", and its staff described it as "the most playable, most enjoyable, and flat out best arcade baseball game that you can buy". '' PC Accelerator'' and '' GameSpot'' also named it the sports game of the year. It was also a finalist for the

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' " Computer Sports Game of the Year" award, which was ultimately given to ''

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* 1999 video games High Heat Major League Baseball video games PlayStation (console) games Video games developed in the United States Windows games {{sports-videogame-stub