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Major League Baseball 2K12

Major League Baseball 2K12 or, in short, MLB 2K12, is a Major League Baseball licensed baseball simulation video game published by 2K Sports that was released for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation…

66 6 March 2012

Major League Baseball 2K12 is a sport developed by Visual Concepts, released 6 March 2012 on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Wii.

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What Major League Baseball 2K12 is

Major League Baseball 2K12 is a sport game developed by Visual Concepts and released in 2012. It was published by 2K Sports. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Major League Baseball 2K12 or, in short, MLB 2K12, is a Major League Baseball licensed baseball simulation video game published by 2K Sports that was released for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, Wii and Xbox 360 on March 6, 2012. The commentary is delivered by the trio of Steve Phillips, Gary Thorne, and John Kruk. Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers is the game's cover athlete.[1] Verlander won both the AL Cy Young Award and the AL MVP Award in 2011.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the MLB series

Major League Baseball 2K12 is the 83rd of 129 entries we hold in the MLB series. The next entry was MLB 12: The Show in 2012. Its critic score of 66 is 10 points below the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is MLB 06: The Show at 90.

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How it was received

Major League Baseball 2K12 holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Major League Baseball 2K12 launched on 6 March 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward and Kid Icarus: Uprising. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Kid Icarus: Uprising.

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When did Major League Baseball 2K12 come out?
Major League Baseball 2K12 was released on 6 March 2012 for Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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