The first Fisherman's Bait set arcade fishing game standards on how a playstation fishing game should be. Now with the second out even more standards are set. Fisherman's Bait 2: Big Ol' Bass is not like Bass Landing. It is the complete opposite. Fisherman's Bait 2 was a arcade game where you had a fishing pole attached to the game. I nevered played the arcade game but the playstation game is fun.

GRAPHICS

: Fisherman's Bait 2's graphics are solid for a guy fishing on a semi-animated background. The fisherman graphically looks good, and the small box where you watch your lure looks good, and so does the part when you see the fish struggling. The fish aren't great looking, they're o.k. The fish when you pick them up out the water looks kind of grainy.
I'll give graphics an 8

: First I must say, you cannot fell the game fully without the fishing controller (the ine from Bass Landing, yes it works). The arcade style is fun even though I like simulation better. It has a beat-the-clock style where you fish for a certain amount of fish in a certain amount of time. The more fish you catch the more time. You must think of this game as an arcade game. It doesn't involve a lot of skill but still fun because of the many options. There is free fishing mode, where you just have a day out on the lake where you still face the clock but you can choose where you go and what you want to fish with. There are 2 parts to this mode. There is regular free fishing mode where the fish are regularly sized and there is the "Big Ol' Bass" section where you fight for huge bass. There is tournament mode, where you are placed in a tournament where you have to catch certain weights to pass on to the next round. There are three lakes where you catch regularly sized fish and an extra lake to fight the big class bass. There is the VS. mode ,which is really fun if both players have a fishing controller, here you face a friend one-on-one in different competions like, Weight (where you battle to see who has a larger total weight), Speed (where you battle to see who can reel a bass in the fastest), and Target (where you battle to land a specific species in the shortest amount of time). This mode can keep you playing for hours. Then there is the World Monsters where you battle outraged sized fish (some even a 1000 lbs), some real fish and some not. This mode is fun and askes you to catch certain totals of weight or certain totals of a certain fish, but the bad part is the fake fish. Yes there are some real like the Peacock Bass, or the Coelacanth, but the fake fish like the Shadow Assasin makes the game a little too arcade. But it still is fun.
I'll give the gameplay an 8

Sound

: Like most fishing games the music is horrible. It's just...um...ewww!! Well, lets move on, Sound effects aren't bad, from the water splashing and the fish jumping. Its good.
I'll give the sound a 7