MLB The Show
/Do you want to be the next best baseball star in the MLB? If so, you should pick up MLB 23 to start your legendary career! This video game series has long brought viewers endless hours of what it feels like to be a player in the MLB with several different game modes including Road to the show, franchise mode, Dimond dynasty, and March to October and many other offline modes that I will get into in this review.
Experience:
First, it doesn’t matter what experience level you have because you can practice batting, pitching, and fielding even before you start playing. This will allow you to get an understanding for the game and the controls before you hop into a game mode. I really like this because the biggest difference I noticed from MLB 22 to 23 is that the pitching is more realistic in terms of how much time you must see the ball. It can be a big adjustment.
Franchise mode:
The first part of this review will be on franchise mode. When you play MLB, the user has so much control over the mode. Franchise mode is a wonderful place to start in MLB. The user can pick the team to control the lineups, and the outside things like signing players. Having this allows the user to feel like they are managing a real MLB team. A few downsides to this are that the game doesn’t allow you to see the background stuff. Like if you were to be setting up the lineups, how does that happen? What’s the process that happens in real life? In future games of the games, it would be nice to see the game expand.
Road to the show:
Another mode is road to the show. There are several reasons to love this mode and reasons to dislike it. Be a pro is focused on the character and how your player’s career shapes out. The good part about this mode is again that the user has much of the control, but the main complaint is that the player doesn’t have much personality that is shown in the game and the player doesn’t have a voice. Mostly what we see is the coach talking to the player or the agent talking to them, but without a voice, it is less interactive. This is a great mode to play if you want to focus simply on one player and not a whole game,
Dimond Dynasty:
The next part I want to focus on is Dimond Dynasty. This mode is probably one of the most fun to play because it allows you to play in challenges to get player cards where you can draft and build your own team to create the most dominate force on the field. When you win challenges, the user is rewarded with player cards to build the team. Some even as high as 99 overall. The fun part isn’t just getting the players it’s beating the challenges because after a certain number of games, the user faces “a boss” that can be the hardest level.
Finally, the last point is talking about March to October. This is a mode I haven’t played much of, but it is still great. In this mode you play as one player, and your job is to play in late game moments to get your team to the post season. This can create a feeling of thrill and maybe make you feel like you must preform to get to the end. Similarly, this mode may feel more like Road to the show in terms of controlling one person, so it is limiting in that way.
Overall, I think MLB 23 is a great game and provides people of any age the ability to not only learn but play the game too.
