MLB 15: THE SHOW

A paradox housed within an XXL jersey

INFO FORMAT PS4 ALSO ON PS3/ PS VITA ETA OUT NOW PUB SONY DEV SONY SAN DIEGO Were there a sports-style rankings system for #firstworldproblems, The Show developer Sony San Diego’s current plight would surely perch close to its summit. So great has its baseball series become over the last decade, so close to marrying the virtual and the real, season after season, that this year’s entry feels brilliant, yet also a bit… boring. Authentic but archaic. Exhilarating and exhausting, all at once. Football games will never be truly lifelike because at any given moment the AI must approximate realistic decisions for 22 different players. In baseball, the dynamics are much simpler: pitcher vs batter, then batter vs ball, then ball vs fielder. The Show had all those mechanics nailed as far back as its MLB 10…

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Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 1, 2015

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