basically, mlb2k13 sucks

Warning: Article contains some naughty words. May not be SFW.

Dont like the commercials where the host thinks the video game events are real. I liked the earlier years with the teary-eyed Cubs fan as they won the World Series and Tim Lincecum training his video game self.

My son wanted to buy this for the Wii, but there will be no Wii edition of it. I think we dodged a bullet there.

Major League Baseball 2K13 is an offensively recycled product and an embarrassment to sports video games.

Well, that's nitpicking, innit?

What about "The Show" 2013.

I owned an Xbox 360, but had to buy a ps3 JUST so i could play MLB The Show. That was the 2009 edition and it was the greatest baseball game I've ever played. Such attention to detail. Examples: Yankees roll call, A Bob sheppard like voice introducing Jeter, camera behind Mariano when he enters the game. I even added Enter Sandman for his custom song.

Most importantly: awesome gameplay. Working the count so you could get a hittable pitch was key. That game threw off my video game playing for years, as I had to play every inning of an entire season. I've never caught up. I have games from that Christmas that I still haven't had a chance to play. I bought MLB the Show '12 this Christmas and it seems even better. I'll get to a review sometime in '16, I promise.

I liked the earlier years with the teary-eyed Cubs fan as they won the World Series

Wasn't this an MLB The Show commercial?

What about "The Show" 2013.

MLB the Show 13 is AMAZING. I got it on Tuesday and it's really a big improvement on last year's game. Player models are even better, somehow. Ball physics have been further improved, after the huge jump last year they've still managed to refine them further. Hitting feels much better now since timing is more forgiving; due to this there are far more XBH than there were in the last few seasons. They've also redone the repertoires of almost every pitcher in MLB, making them far more accurate in both pitch selection and velocity/movement.

I'm really looking forward to playing the MLB Live mode once the season actually begins. In this mode it will use actual matchups and lineups and statistics from the games on that day.

#8 Dan, so far I'm in agreement. I was considering not purchasing MLB the Show this year, but when I saw the MLB Live feature, I pre-ordered it. I've always played single player exhibition games, and I liked to sit down on a Saturday and "play along" with some of the games going on that day. However, it was always a pain to look up the lineups and make the necessary changes to my rosters. I'm looking forward to doing the same thing with no effort once the season starts. I also may try the Postseason mode. Simulating a season seems like too much work, but the postseason seems reasonable.

I'm enjoying the game play so far, especially the revised hitting. I agree with most folks that last year's hitting revisions took some of the fun out of the game. It seems they've kept the impressive ball flight physics, but it seems there's a more realistic BABIP going on.

I don't know if my experience was typical to last year's hitting and ball physics, but for me last years game had a ton of singles but almost 0 XBH. I'd have games with 14 or 15 hits, but only 1 double and the rest singles. And those would only result in 3 or 4 runs. So far in this years game I'm seeing much more realistic numbers of doubles, triples, and home runs. It also helps that it seems like more balls get by the outfielders to the wall.in last years game it seemed like OFers cutoff way too may balls hit into the gaps and the corners.

When I got my Xbox360 in July 2011 I was compelled to get MLB 2K11 for the sake of having a baseball game. I figured that somewhere in the game is an old core of World Series Baseball, which used to be a fun game to play in the early-mid 2000s (after the initial Dreamcast offering that used a right trigger button release to swing, combining withat the poor fielding/pitching to essentially make it a hitting simulator) and I was aghast the convoluted "total control pitching" system.

Seriously, I can't come up with another SFW word beyond convoluted, because you have to execute a long precision-detailed sequence on the analogue stick in order to get the pitch where you want it to go. In games past if I could physicals get the pitches where I wanted to go I'd have success that yielded generally-lifelike results. In this game I couldn't manage anything other than throwing meat. When I turned the system off I'd find myself consistently having CG shutouts/1-run-games-thanks-to-a-solo-HR. If there was only a happy medium where I could be challenged enough to occasionally have a mediocre pitcher give up ~5 runs during a so-so start, as opposed to all (CG SHO) or nothing (10+ runs on 24 hits because I either throw it right down the middle or 4 feet outside) I reckon I'd have at least ma.de it ~50 games into a season before falling victim to my traditional ADHD attention span. C'est la vie.