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MLB The Show 17

MLB The Show 17 delivers the most realistic and personal baseball gaming experience on consoles. This year The Show offers exciting gameplay improvements and a greater ability to personalize your baseball…

87 28 March 2017

MLB The Show 17 is a sport developed by SIE San Diego Studio, released 28 March 2017 on PlayStation 4.

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What MLB The Show 17 is

MLB The Show 17 is a sport game developed by SIE San Diego Studio and released in 2017. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

MLB The Show 17 is a 2017 baseball video game developed by San Diego Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. It is the twelfth installment in the MLB: The Show series and the first to be exclusive on a single console. The American cover features Ken Griffey Jr., while Aaron Sanchez is the cover athlete for the Canadian version, and Wei-Yin Chen is on the Taiwanese cover.
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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 and Single player.

Where it sits in the MLB series

MLB The Show 17 is the 99th of 129 entries we hold in the MLB series. The next entry was MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2017 in 2017. Its critic score of 87 is 11 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is MLB 06: The Show at 90.

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How it was received

MLB The Show 17 holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What it launched against

MLB The Show 17 launched on 28 March 2017, within three weeks of Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition and Zero Escape: The Nonary Games. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games.

Cheats and codes

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When did MLB The Show 17 come out?
MLB The Show 17 was released on 28 March 2017 for PlayStation 4.

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