There has been one glaring problem with this: producing a first-rate game to go with a first-rate movie is nearly impossible given the timeline.
"We wanted to find a location that is great for our fans, makes getting to and from the stadium much easier and provides a first-rate game experience," the Braves' president, John Schuerholz, said in a video on the team's website.
Although it's a standard insult to say that certain movies don't live up to the engrossing video game, in the case of "Ballistic" the film isn't even as good as the second-rate game it is based on, which is nothing but a shootout.
Hands up those who, six weeks ago, feared sides like Japan would be flattened by "proper" nations and envisaged a surfeit of dull, second-rate games in half-empty football stadia?
I wasn't used to losing close games to a second-rate team".
This clever idea turns out to be the biggest flaw in what is otherwise a first-rate golf game.
Fortunately, the player spends far more time racing than watching Ryan nurse the chip on his shoulder, and Driver is a first-rate driving game with a wide variety of tracks and cars.
By this they mean the second- and third-rate game makers who tend to flood into any open market with clones and knock-offs and charge cheap.
The PC version, developed by Headgate Studios, is a first-rate golf simulation game, but the console version, developed by Electronic Arts, is the one that pulled me in.
While it does cheat a little on the physics model -- allowing a skater, for example, to ride up an incline with no momentum -- this is a first-rate extreme-sports game that compares well with the best of the breed.
