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Major League Baseball 2K8

Major League Baseball 2K8 or in shorter terms, MLB 2K8, is an MLB licensed baseball simulation video game developed by Kush Games and published by 2K Sports for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation…

71 4 March 2008

Major League Baseball 2K8 is a simulator developed by Blue Castle Games, released 4 March 2008 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and Xbox 360.

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What Major League Baseball 2K8 is

Major League Baseball 2K8 is a simulator game developed by Blue Castle Games and released in 2008. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Major League Baseball 2K8 or in shorter terms, MLB 2K8, is an MLB licensed baseball simulation video game developed by Kush Games and published by 2K Sports for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, and Xbox 360.[1] It was released on March 4, 2008. A demo was released on Xbox Live Marketplace the next day on March 5 for Canada, United States and Asian markets.
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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 2K8 is the 64th of 129 entries we hold in the MLB series. The next entry was MLB 08: The Show in 2008. Its critic score of 71 is 5 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 2K8 holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 43% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Major League Baseball 2K8 launched on 4 March 2008, within three weeks of God of War: Chains of Olympus, Audiosurf, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and Penumbra: Black Plague. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: God of War: Chains of Olympus, Audiosurf, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Penumbra: Black Plague.

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When did Major League Baseball 2K8 come out?
Major League Baseball 2K8 was released on 4 March 2008 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2.

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