Unlike football or basketball, there is a healthy competition between baseball game franchises on the market this year. Take Two Interactive's 2K Sports has done a fairly good job with the MLB 2K series across all platforms since EA Sports lost the license in 2005, but Sony's relative newcomer The Show has been creeping up the standings. This year, MLB 2K11 and MLB 11 The Show go head-to-head in a one-game playoff to win over baseball fans as their favorite way to belt a 3-run shot, or strike out the side.
In many ways, this past console generation was a brutal one for sports video games. While other genres flourished, sports gamers were subjected to an irreversible thinning of the herd, losing MLB 2K, 2K Sports football, NHL 2K, both NCAA basketball franchises, and seeing arcade sports games all but vanish. Competition, which breeds innovation, is weaker than ever. But that’s not to say some standout games didn’t arrive as well.
Amazon has some great game deals for PS3 that include The ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Collection, Heavy Rain: Director's Cut, ModNation Racers, Sports Champions, MLB 11 The Show and more...
The ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Collection – $19.96
Heavy Rain: Director’s Cut – $19.99
ModNation Racers – $19.96
Sports Champions – $20.08
MLB 11 The Show – $18.70
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time – $18.80
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction – $19.70
Killzone 2 – $19.96
The Fight: Lights Out – $18.80
MotorStorm – $19.99
PlayStation Move Heroes – $17.75
Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest – $18.27
White Knight Chronicles International Edition – $19.99
Some of those prices are okay, but I got Killzone 3 Helghast Edition for only $40, which had a ton of cool stuff with it.
Gamestop has better deals than this piece of crap list. It has team Ico collection for 20 bucks with all the other games on the list but cheaper. Hell motorstorm is like 3 bucks on gamestop while here its 20
The sports genre might be one of the most underrated categories in all of gaming. Sure, they suffer from a yearly release schedule that makes the previous entries obsolete, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t games worth remembering. - PSLS
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee and its sequel are awesomely fun games. It's a shame no one plays online anymore :(
They're a great tune-up for World Invitational though, which will be a Vita launch game~
I am still playing MLB 10 The Show even though I have MLB 11 for my PSP.
Not being able to transfer your RTTS players from one year's version to the next has always been a handcuff for me.
I'm in my 10th year as a right fielder and am on my way to the Hall of Fame. Why would I want to start another guy before I'm immortalized in the HoF with my current guy?
Every year we have this face-off and every the result is the same...
Every UK/EU ps3 owner is praying to God for Sony to come up with a football (soccer) game.