Game Pro: Longer days and warmer weather signal the arrival of spring, and with it, the beginning of another baseball season. But it's also the beginning of the virtual baseball season, as gamers around the country vicariously live out their Major League dreams on their console of choice. This year, two contenders are vying for the hearts and minds of baseball fans everywhere, so we asked Scott Pytlik, diehard baseball fan and unabashed Red Sox supporter (try not to hold it against him), to put Sony's MLB 10: The Show and 2K Sports' MLB 2K10 through the wringer to see which one deserves to be your baseball sim of choice.
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ESPN: Hans Smith pitched his way through an up-and-down rookie year for the Cardinals last season. Don't recognize the name? That's because Smith is a virtual athlete who spent an entire season playing as himself in "MLB 10: The Show."
In a subgenre governed by eight-month development cycles and yearly releases, there isn’t a lot of changeover from year to year. Not 2010. With high-profile cancellations like NBA Elite, bold new challengers like Backbreaker, and the return of classic franchises like NBA Jam (awesome reboot) and Tecmo Bowl (less awesome), this year sports games almost generated as much news and controversy as the moribund 2010 Minnesota Vikings. While not every title rose to the occasion and many kept running in place, several titles elevated their game with long-requested new features, jaw-dropping graphics, and even web integration.
For MLB 10 the show there no competition.