MLB The Show 23 Leads the Way for Sports Sims

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The annual rollout of sports simulators puts pressure on video game developers. For example, how do sports sims like MLB The Show 23 appeal to diehard baseball fans and casual players at the same time? It becomes a decision to veer the gameplay towards the players who want intricate details or the ones who want to pick up and play for the first time. Well, San Diego Studio does both.

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As a South African, baseball isn’t one of the top played sports in this writer’s country. While the basics and rules aren’t known, the deeper elements of the sport or its history require research. However, MLB The Show 23 lets the player choose the controls and playing style they are comfortable with in terms of pitching, fielding, and batting – opening the door to a variety of possibilities that ensure high degrees of replayability.

This means the average Joe can start up the game and play immediately. For the extreme novice, there are AI-assisted methods for fielding to be entirely automated, but as the player becomes more comfortable, they can adjust how much they take over. Same as with batting and pitching. Timing will be important, regardless of the setting, but it’s the degree of how much control someone wants when partaking in these elements of baseball. It’s this option that instantly separates MLB The Show 23 from other sports sims that often require the player to learn the basic commands in one manner – and that’s it.

By taking this route, San Diego Studios ensures that a non-baseball fan may be able to enjoy this video game without knowing all the bells and whistles of the sport. It makes it far more accessible, which is something many other games could learn from.

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