MLB 2K11 News Post

MLB 2K11 Game Features (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, DS, PC)

07:59 PM - January 19, 2011 by BravesBoy

360, PS3, PC

Dynamic Player Ratings
Watch your favorite MLBŽ pitcher strike out the side in a real game, then watch his stats improve in your game. Dynamic Player Ratings update daily in MLBŽ Today, Franchise, and My Player.

Revamped Fielding System
Completely revamped fielding system, featuring improved AI, throwing meters and landing indicators to give you more control to run down a fly ball or make the play at the plate.

My Player mode
Guide your player through the Minor Leagues and into the history books with an improved My Player mode.

MLB Today
Stay up-to-date on the latest happenings in Major League BaseballŽ, with timely play-by-play commentary and stat overlays pulled from real life news and box scores.

Total Control Pitching & Hitting
The battle at the plate comes to life in the palms of your hands. Paint the corners with pinpoint accuracy on the mound, and then fight off nasty sliders until you get the pitch youre looking for at the plate.

New player models
Amazing attention to detail captures every intricacy of the game. Enjoy completely rebuilt player models for Major League authenticity like never before.

Wii

Mini-Diamond
An all-new multiplayer mode set in wild venues, from a low gravity Space ballpark to a zany Circus environment. Get ready to experience fast-paced, Mini-Diamond baseball.

Total Control Pitching & Hitting
The battle at the plate comes to life with your Wii Remote and Nunchuk. With the flick of your wrist, paint the corners with pinpoint accuracy on the mound and then fight off nasty sliders until you get the pitch youre looking for at the plate.

Home Run DerbyŽ
Swing your Wii Remote for the fences against the leagues top sluggers.

Franchise
Build a championship team from the ground up over the course of several seasons, or take the reins of a perennial contender and aim for the World SeriesŽ in year one.

Tournament
Pick the teams, pick the series length and then play ball. May the best team win.

PS2

Franchise & Season
Build a championship franchise from the ground up over the course of several seasons, or take the reins of a perennial contender and aim for the World SeriesŽ in year one.

Play Online
Take your skills online and play against the best gamers in the 2K Sports community.

Home Run DerbyŽ
Swing for the fences against the leagues top sluggers.

Manager Showdown
Think youre a master baseball strategist? Prove it by setting your lineup, naming your starting pitcher and making all the right moves to guide your team to victory.

Situation Mode
Choose a custom situation and jump to that exact moment of the game.

PSP

Franchise & Season
Build a championship franchise from the ground up over the course of several seasons, or take the reins of a perennial contender and aim for the World SeriesŽ in year one.

Home Run DerbyŽ
Swing for the fences against the leagues top sluggers. Play a quick head-to-head duel, or challenge them all in a tournament.

The Farm
Take a trip down to the Minor Leagues to play with future All-Stars.

Manager Showdown
Think youre a master baseball strategist? Prove it by setting your lineup, naming your starting pitcher and making all the right moves to guide your team to victory.

DS

Total Control Pitching & Hitting
The battle at the plate comes to life in the palms of your hands. Paint the corners with pinpoint accuracy on the mound, and then fight off nasty sliders until you get the pitch youre looking for at the plate.

Season & Postseason Modes
Choose between the marathon of a 162-game Season, or the sprint of the Postseason.

Unlockable Player Cards
Over 250 baseball cards to unlock as you go.

Game: Major League Baseball 2K11Reader Score: 5.5/10 - Vote Now
Platform: NDS / PC / PS2 / PS3 / PSP / Wii / Xbox 360Votes for game: 17 - View All

Major League Baseball 2K11 Videos

Member Comments

# 81 Artman22 @ 01/20/11 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by heroesandvillians


	Is this VC's 3rd edition? It's been awhile. Sorry, I can't remember how long it's been now.

Almost half way through 2k9, 2k10 and now 2k11. With that said, it's 2 and a half years of development so far with 2k11.

# 82 Skyboxer @ 01/20/11 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by stateprop


	I wonder if the mlb2k devs going to lie to us again about the CAP LIMIT. Because they said in a interview from last year game there was no CAP limit to find out there was actually a cap limit. Im already done MLB2k, im just hoping the the exclusive hurry up and come thru so EA SPorts can delivers us a decent baseball game. The interview was with 2K Sports Producer, Ben Bishop, Gameplay Designer, Jonathan Rivera and Sean Bailey. Here is the simple question and answer: With the ability to edit players, is there a cap on how many you can edit? Sean: No, no cap. http://www.examiner.com/video-game-i...ucer-designers I know alot of people remember this interview. How can we trust these people man to deliver us a decent baseball game.

Ok you've said your peace. If you're done with 2K baseball then we'll see you after EA starts their franchise up again.

# 83 Skyboxer @ 01/20/11 07:17 PM

My main thing I want is no huge issues right from the start where we have to wait a month for a fix. That alone will make my confidence go a long ways up with 2K.
We'll know soon enough as March is right around the corner...

# 84 rudyjuly2 @ 01/20/11 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve_OS


	2K Sports slightly updated the Dynamic Player Ratings. Watch your favorite MLBŽ pitcher strike out the side in a real game, then watch his stats improve in your game. Dynamic Player Ratings update daily in MLBŽ Today, Franchise, and My Player. They will have a Developer Insight covering it, in the coming weeks.

This isn't what I was thinking at all. I guess this is just a way for a player to boost or drop his overall rating based on his performance over the season. That's probably something I will turn off to be honest. I know some guys like this idea but I believe the performance over the course of a season should be independent of the ratings. Use the performance to adjust for the next season ratings, not the next day or week.

What I wanted, and this would probably only be able to do in the first season of a franchise mode or perhaps season mode only, was for a new roster update to merge the adjusted ratings for players in with my season/franchise. Every time 2K updates their online rosters I want the option of replacing my player ratings with those ones. So if I start a season and the Tigers Alex Avila is rated a 70 I will play with those ratings. Then the real season starts and the first month the kid plays like an All-Star and is batting over 0.300 with 10 HRs (I can dream can't I). The next online roster update has him rated an 80, I want to be able to use that in my season regardless of what type of season I'm actually having with him (say I'm only batting .220 with 1 HR).

My sole concern is just having the player ratings match the overall ability of the player in real life. I do like to keep my Tiger team current. If they send a kid down I'll send a kid down. If someone struggles I will edit the player to make him worse (Porcello). If someone does really well I will edit them and make them better (first half for Brennan Boesch). Even if the dynamic ratings wouldn't do trades or injuries for me, I would love it if I could use a system to automatically adjust my players ratings based on real life performance for every MLB team. I know some guys hate that idea but that's what I was hoping for.

# 85 Artman22 @ 01/20/11 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by stateprop


	Yup my prize will be MLB the show 11 which i definitely take thnx.

So your only motive was to tell people on the 2k boards that you're getting the show?

# 86 EnigmaNemesis @ 01/20/11 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Scottdau


	You go with that thinking. . I will just say this if EA gets back in the baseball game they will do as much as they can to try to buy the rights to baseball like they did for football. So for me. I hope 2k keeps those rights. This game is looking better everyday to me. I like the pitching in this game.

I hope neither gets any rights.

Miss the days of 5 baseball titles to choose from, as well as football. (loved me some Gameday and Gameday '97)

# 87 Skyboxer @ 01/20/11 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by EnigmaNemesis


	I hope neither gets any rights.

Just wish Konami would get into the mix somehow. I prefer the Show over PYS BUT the more the merrier.

# 88 Artman22 @ 01/20/11 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Skyboxer


	Just wish Konami would get into the mix somehow. I prefer the Show over PYS BUT the more the merrier.

I hope in 2013 this happens. Allow many companies to make mlb games.

# 89 Jamin23 @ 01/20/11 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by EnigmaNemesis


	I hope neither gets any rights. Miss the days of 5 baseball titles to choose from, as well as football. (loved me some Gameday and Gameday '97)

Me too. I remember going to blockbuster and being able to choose two out of five different mlb games and just looking at the different games that were available. I hate having to settle for just one MLB game, especially because I don't have a PS3.

# 90 duke776 @ 01/20/11 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Jayhawker


	I'd still say it's not a downside. It's just not the upside you are looking for.

You might not think of it as a downside, but I certainly would. If they did not fix something that I had a big problem with, I would certainly be disappointed and look at it as a downside. It's all a matter of personal preference, which modes you play, and how you play.

And I'm not saying I want progression to be perfect, I mean I understand it's not going to be, I just want it better than bad (which IMO, last year it was bad).

# 91 duke776 @ 01/21/11 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Jayhawker


	I'd call that neutral, that's all.

Alright, for the sake of discussion they did not change the progression this year. It did not get better, it did not get worse. I thought 2k10's pitcher progression was a negative. Therefore, since it did not get better or worse, I would still precieve it as a negative. It does not become nuetral to me just because it's the same, my opinion of it does not change. My opinion was that the pitcher progression was a negative.

And I should've said this earlier, I only had a problem with the pitcher progression. I did not see anything that jumped out at me with the hitter progression that made me feel it was bad. I'd be completely happy if they improved the pitchers progression so most of them do not regress after they have a good season.

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	I have not played a single sports game in which I didn't feel like the franchise was bad. And that's going back to Front Page Sports. I wish franchise play was great. It's like a holy grail.

I've played a few baseball games where I thought their franchise modes were good. Not great, not perfect, but good. It's obviously an opinional thing. And I'm not asking for the franchise to be perfect, not asking for it to be great, just want it improved. I only play franchise, so that's why I care so much. And I want a franchise better than 2k10's franchise, which was terrible IMO taking into account:

No injuries in played games
The DL had NO effect for CPU teams. Players on it could not start, but they could pinch hit/run, def. sub. This gave the CPU more than 25 players to use.
Players would gain no stamina if they sat out the whole game, but pinch hit for one AB. Their stamina would stay the same as it was before the game, which they still should've regained some stamina because they were on the bench most the game (this one I was upset about but I can see how it would be tough to program because you'd have to make exceptions for players with 1 AB or pinch hit. I'd like it fixed, but it looks like it would be complicated)
Players would lose their face in spring training and during september call ups.
The CPU does not call up or send down anyone except for spring training and september call ups.
I could go on and on with more problems, but I'd just be polluting the thread since this thread is not about franchise mode.

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	So if the franchise play is bad again, oh well.

That's the difference between you and me I guess. You can say oh well about franchise mode being bad. I can't. It's all I play. I do not have interest in exhibition, online, or my player modes. I played 130 games in a 2 month span in mlb 2k10's franchise mode, and as you can see I felt it was bad. Personally, I have to have a good franchise mode to keep me interested or to get me to buy the game. Obviously you don't, and that's okay. We both have different opinions, different tastes. Nothing wrong with that, but people are still going to be upset because of a bad franchise mode if they only play franchise mode. And I can see that obviously not everyone will care about franchise mode, and I'm fine with that. I mean we like what we like, and we voice our opinions based on what we like.

# 92 duke776 @ 01/21/11 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Jayhawker


	I would love a game with a good franchise mode. Seriously, it would be fun to play. But in the last 20 years there is not a single game that has done it well enough to be interesting. I can't require a game to have a good franchise mode if I want to play sports games. If the AI can't put a line-up together, can't draft, can't trade and can't mange free agency with any semblance of reality, then the progression of the players is the least of my worries. So if a game will do a decent job of getting me through a season, I'm happy. Even that is going to require me to look past some serious issues. I played in an OOTP X league last year, and I was kind of amazed what was passing as a good franchise mode. It was good, if we not only handled every aspect, but also came up with house rules to handle the ridiculous economy of the game. It's not that I don't want one. It's that I don't even pretend that there is such a thing as a good franchise mode. But I put hundreds of hours, if not more than 1000 into MLB 2K10 without ever playing more than a portion of one season. I would have loved a good franchise. But I got more than my money's worth of other game mode play. Check the threads. Every game has a ton of posts about what is wrong with the franchise mode. but no one sees the real pattern, which is that either acceptable AI is out of reach at this point, or that $60 games are not worth the effort. Regardless, they just don't exist. I decided a long time ago to just enjoy sports games for what the can do, and stop worrying about what they can't do. It seems like you just have a lower standard for what passes as compelling franchise play.

I can respect that, and understand that. And maybe I do have a lower standard because I have actually played franchise modes which I thought were good and I enjoyed. Who knows, like I said I don't need them to be perfect. I can overlook stuff, or just not even notice it (I purposely avoid reading a lot of threads because I don't want flaws I do not notice pointed out to me, but I will post my problems in hope they will get fixed). So I probably don't scrutinize them that hard if it is not obvious stuff (where last years franchise mode had a lot of obvious bugs/glitches). But I have to complain, and ask for fixes with franchise because unlike you, I can only enjoy franchise mode. I'm just that type of gamer, I've never enjoyed online or my player. Just not my cup of tea I guess. I mean I had a blast with the gameplay in 2k10 last year, despite the flaws it had. It was just fun for me, but I needed a better franchise to keep me interested longer.

# 93 Trevytrev11 @ 01/21/11 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Jayhawker


	It seems like you just have a lower standard for what passes as compelling franchise play.

I truely mean this with all due respect, but the same could be said for gameplay last year, right? But you were still able to put in a ton of hours and overlook it's pitfalls, which I suspect is what everyone else tries to do with franchise modes.

I don't think anyone expects perfection (the same goes with gameplay) and we all know that there are going to be errors, bugs and glitches. We just hope that they are not so overwhelming that they make a mode of the game completely and totally unplayable.

I think people could overlook one or two of the problems (lineup logic, roster management, lack of realistic injuries, lack or realistic progression, unrealistic stats, etc.), but when you are forced to overlook all of them at once, and do so every year, it becomes completely unbearable. If they can get rid of the huge issue and minimize the smaller ones, then for most, it would probably become much more tolerable.

# 94 Skyboxer @ 01/21/11 01:02 PM

My biggest thing is some of the same people who say they want a totally realistic/real world franchise system will not use any "house rules" etc.. to make THEM play a realistic franchise. There's never been a franchise that you really couldn't abuse one way or another to get a monster team. Maybe one day we'll get there but until then, and the fact we are trying to get a software package to act "real", if we can police ourselves with rules (or 30 team control etc..) then do it. Don't go in accpeting BS trades that you can easily keep from happening, and then complain the GAME isn't realistic.
It goes both ways.........

# 95 Pared @ 01/21/11 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ryan36


	There's no downside with the updates themselves, at all. It's only if they did this IN LIEU OF fixing the progression in the game itself

Why would anyone think that though? It's almost as if one should expect this group to fail.

While they haven't made all the perfect design decisions (no team has, newsflash), they certainly have improved the game enough to earn SOME respect.

The overly negative tone on this feature is unwarranted early on. If it was just banter, maybe, but the comments here lead me to believe it's more than that.

# 96 mrsalsays @ 01/21/11 04:55 PM

Hey atleast from the trailer, you can tell theres check swings.
eh

# 97 l3ulvl @ 01/21/11 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Pared


	Why would anyone think that though? It's almost as if one should expect this group to fail. While they haven't made all the perfect design decisions (no team has, newsflash), they certainly have improved the game enough to earn SOME respect. The overly negative tone on this feature is unwarranted early on. If it was just banter, maybe, but the comments here lead me to believe it's more than that.

I guess I'm reading the thread from a different viewpoint, but I don't really see the overly negative tone. I think people are excited about the features, but taking a cautious wait and see approach. Personally I can't wait to find out more about the whole dynamic ratings thing, I hope specific details are released so people don't develop their own hopes individually for how they think it would be perfect, only to be let down after purchase.

# 98 Yankees_CT @ 01/21/11 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by EnigmaNemesis


	I hope neither gets any rights. Miss the days of 5 baseball titles to choose from, as well as football. (loved me some Gameday and Gameday '97)

I wish it was still this way. The more choices the better. I need this years version to be good. I get this game for the PC every year now since I am on the road a lot and it helps pass the time. Either that or they need to make an even slimmer slim PS3.

As long as they can iron out the gameplay this year I will be happy camper.

# 99 EnigmaNemesis @ 01/22/11 01:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Scottdau


	This game was doomed to fail as soon as they ended the MVP run (MVP FANBOYS). Which is just not fair to bitch at a company that did a smart business deal. I have strong hopes for this game to rock!

It sure is fair to give company heat for picking up an exclusive to get rid of the competition. Madden gets it all the time. And it is not beneficial for us the consumer. Or fair to us.

And it has proven and admitted to not be a smart move by 2K.

But anywho, hopefully they are finally turning the corner. Buy the exclusive stigma will always remain. And it had nothing to do with being an MVP fanboy to not be happy with exclusive licenses.

Remember 2K has it's share of fans as well. So it wasn't just because MVP fans hated the deal, it was because they did not put out a good product with said deal.

But it appears VC wants to right the ship.

# 100 Pared @ 01/22/11 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by EnigmaNemesis


	It sure is fair to give company heat for picking up an exclusive to get rid of the competition. Madden gets it all the time. And it is not beneficial for us the consumer. Or fair to us. And it has proven and admitted to not be a smart move by 2K. But anywho, hopefully they are finally turning the corner. Buy the exclusive stigma will always remain. And it had nothing to do with being an MVP fanboy to not be happy with exclusive licenses. Remember 2K has it's share of fans as well. So it wasn't just because MVP fans hated the deal, it was because they did not put out a good product with said deal. But it appears VC wants to right the ship.

You need to remember ALL the aspects of the deal, however.

Hell, their deal allowed you to attend a community day at Sony. So I would think you'd at least be appreciative of that.

As for the tone l3ulvl, it does seem to be overly negative from anyone who is more interested in The Show. I don't care for all that... the more baseball, the better.

Call me silly and optimistic.

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