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Just a Few More MLB 13 The Show Features Revealed

10:15 AM - December 4, 2012 by Steve_OS

We will most likely see the full MLB 13 The Show fact sheet, sometime in February. But for now, Amazon and Best Buy have released a few features that some of you might not be aware of. Check them out below. Anything catch your eye?

Amazon

Multiple all-new game modes bring unique gameplay experiences to The Show.
All-New Playoff Mode includes an unparalleled in-stadium atmosphere that replicates the excitement and tension of October baseball.
Revamped Franchise and Road To The Show modes with expanded options and new gameplay experiences.
Completely-new beginner mode and instructional enhancements make The Show the best pick-up and play baseball experience.
Improved Play Now mode streamlines gameplay for the option to play faster, simpler games.
New commentary and a new voice in the booth provide updated analysis and color commentary.
Play with friends around the world at no extra cost on PlayStation Network.
Save files between the PS3 and the PS Vita via the PlayStation Network. Sync your Season, Franchise and Road to the Show saves and load them on either platform to continue the action anywhere.

Best Buy

Synopsis

You can smell the leather as you pound your fist into the glove. You can feel the ridges of the seams as you turn the ball in your fingers. You can sense the expectation in the air as the stadium roars. Anyone who thinks baseball is about strikes, sliders and singles hasn't experienced The Show. When the October nights fall and the stadium lights blaze, America's pastime is about guts, glory and raw emotion. Now, the bitter disappointments and intoxicating victories on the diamond are yours to experience like only the pros have. Do you have what it takes to step up to the plate and claim your stake in baseball history?

Break out of the dugout and onto the stage of Major League drama as the celebrated baseball simulation franchise invites you into The Show like never before. Brimming with the raw emotion of the stadium and rich in jaw-dropping graphics, MLB 13: The Show takes you the closest you can get to real-life game-day action. Handle the lumber and grip the seams like the pros as baseball's most intricate mechanics are replicated in pain-staking detail. Pave your way to the championships along new routes in the enhanced Franchise and Road to the Show modes, as well as an all-new Playoff mode that brings October baseball to life. Pick up your Vita and dive into the action faster than before in streamlined Play Now gameplay, or start your rookie season right in the all-new beginner mode. Get up off the bench � you've got the starring role in the new Show.

Features

Slide into the most stunningly authentic virtual-diamond experience to date, rendered in jaw-dropping graphics on your PS Vita's front and rear touch screens
Handle the lumber and grip the seams like the pros in gameplay that captures every detail and mechanic of the sport � as well as the raw emotion of the major leagues
Pick-up and play right away, even if you're an MLB rookie, thanks to the all-new beginner mode and instructional enhancements that make starting simple
Realize your post-season dreams in the unparalleled in-stadium atmosphere of the new Playoff mode, which immerses you in the excitement and tension of true October baseball
Energize your gameplay with the faster, simpler games available in the newly improved Play Now mode
Forge untraveled paths to baseball greatness by exploring new options in revamped Franchise and Road to the Show modes
For 1 to 2 players

Game: MLB 13 The ShowReader Score: 9/10 - Vote Now
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Member Comments

# 41 Xoax34 @ 12/04/12 11:18 PM

Dam cliffhangers. Gotta wait what feels like forever just for the Gameplay, then Demo, then finally the game D:

# 42 MrChainsaw @ 12/04/12 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by bp4baseball


	Another screenshot from amazon

That's a clown picture, bro.

# 43 catch212 @ 12/05/12 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by statum71


	Dumb question guys........ Which network is he with? He looks familiar but I can't place him. Is he good?

Honestly, nobody would really know who he was if he didn't drop trou after being called out at first in a game. He was a marginal utility player and bounced around a ton.

I haven't heard his work in the booth, though.

# 44 Unit303 @ 12/05/12 01:15 AM

Really, next to visiting the stadium all you need is high quality camera shots direct from the stadium broadcast crews for the grass and dirt work. I don't really care how they do it just do something. Put on MLB TV for all I care.

It can't be that hard to visit the stadiums near your office to do some photo caps of the grass and dirt. What you have now is simply not good enough. More so the color matching.

If modders can do this stuff for Fallout and Skyrim in a month or so a paid dev team can also do this.

It takes two guys at most two weeks to get some decent dirt and grass textures going unless you are going full monty on the thing which I highly doubt. Another week to do color matching. Please. For the love of god. Anything. Some stadiums look so awful it hurts. Toronto anyone? They will be contenders next year. Why and the heck would anyone want to play in a stadium where the turf and dirt look absolutely nothing like it does in real life?

# 45 seanjeezy @ 12/05/12 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Unit303


	:y 5: :y 5:

Every damn thread...

# 46 Lovesports @ 12/05/12 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by SDPadres2012


	I don't think this means anything. If you look in other shots, like the Cabrera one posted earlier in the thread, they are still wearing team caps, plus if you look closely enough Ellsbury is still wearing a Red Sox jersey so I think it is just either tough to see, or it is just an early screenshot that wasn't touched up too much.

The Cabrera shot is from Vita so I don't think that means anything. They talked about addressing this hat issue for some time now and I'm hoping for the best. It might be a bit early to jump the gun but that's definitely a photo of ellsbury with a blank black hat on...no touch ups will be done there, it's either a photo of a player with a team hat or not. That's definitely a non team hat.

# 47 bp4baseball @ 12/05/12 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by thevaliantx


	Will the following be addressed in the MLB: The Show 13? * AI not throwing, over to try and pick off a runner. * AI rarely, even on highest slider setting, attempting to steal * one-pitch mode. speeds things up greatly. OOTP has it. It doesn't affect the game negatively in any way * glitches in team schedules, causing system to lock up or franchises to have to be restarted * lack of variety in hits. There should be obvious hooks and slices that aren't just foul balls * improvement in the animations library. the same ol' characters walking up and down the stairs in robotic fashion really took a lot from the feel of the gam. * realistic player injuries (injury animation, frequency of injuries according to type, length of injury) * actual players in the system, not fake minor league player names.

No, there is no players union for the minor leagues. The rest we will have to wait and see.

# 48 Tweeg @ 12/06/12 01:21 AM

I'd love to find out there is a way to convert a MLB 12 franchise save to continue my league in MLB 13.

# 49 Super Glock @ 12/06/12 02:12 AM

"Energize your gameplay with the faster, simpler games available in the newly improved Play Now mode." This is all I needed to hear. Love that they added this.

# 50 Unit303 @ 12/06/12 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by seanjeezy


	Every damn thread...

Yeah, until something is done about the grass and dirt we see in ever baseball stadium every game we ever go to, then this is going to be brought up by a myriad number of people. It's something that simply cannot be overlooked year after year. I don't care if you think it is whining. When I go to a stadium these are some of the things that stand out and they are sorely lacking in the best sports game out there.

And they are not that hard to fix! That is what the whole problem is. I see modders do beyond excellent grass and clouds so I know a paid dev team is capable of these things.

# 51 econoodle @ 12/06/12 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Unit303


	Yeah, until something is done about the grass and dirt we see in ever baseball stadium every game we ever go to, then this is going to be brought up by a myriad number of people. It's something that simply cannot be overlooked year after year. I don't care if you think it is whining. When I go to a stadium these are some of the things that stand out and they are sorely lacking in the best sports game out there. And they are not that hard to fix! That is what the whole problem is. I see modders do beyond excellent grass and clouds so I know a paid dev team is capable of these things.

I don't think modders aren't on the same time and budget restrictions the Sony San Diego team is on.
They are capable of doing it, its just a matter of if they have time/money to get to it, when also adding features they had as a higher priority, as well as catering to us OCD gamers on here, with adding the little things.

We know by now, if something isn't in the Show, its always due to one of these three things.

- time
- money
- system capabilities

Also, we don't know if its too hard to fix, plus, who knows if doing the grass messes something else up? Most likely not, but we don't know.

If we want something in there, chances are the Show team does as well.
If they put everything we wanted in the game, it would come out once a console cycle.
lol

# 52 Money99 @ 12/06/12 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Tweeg


	I'd love to find out there is a way to convert a MLB 12 franchise save to continue my league in MLB 13.

This!
And do it for RTTS as well, please!

# 53 thaSLAB @ 12/06/12 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Unit303


	Yeah, until something is done about the grass and dirt we see in ever baseball stadium every game we ever go to, then this is going to be brought up by a myriad number of people. It's something that simply cannot be overlooked year after year. I don't care if you think it is whining. When I go to a stadium these are some of the things that stand out and they are sorely lacking in the best sports game out there. And they are not that hard to fix! That is what the whole problem is. I see modders do beyond excellent grass and clouds so I know a paid dev team is capable of these things.

Actually, it is not as easy as you think. Well, the addition of higher texture grass probably is, but you have to realize that with that comes a compromise; usually in the realm of framerate. I think it is a good balance on the environments overall. Take the games that have "3D grass", then look at the crowds/sidelines in those games... And realize that those mods you speak of are for PC versions of games. As much as people think that these consoles are supercomputers, there are many limitations that developers have to work around. I think SD Studios takes better advantage of the given hardware than anyone out there, aside from few other, Sony first-party teams.

So it's not a case of it being overlooked, or ignored, it's just not going to be done at the expense of overall game quality. Like econoodle said, they want these things just as much as we do.

# 54 Unit303 @ 12/06/12 05:01 PM

I do realize they are for PC as I play them on my high-end PC. It doesn't have to be high-res textures and it doesn't really have to be extremely demanding clouds. All it takes is some creativity and objective analysis of how clouds and grass look. Right now they are pretty mediocre if you ask me. And I'm not sure we are the same page. Who ever mentioned 3D grass? As if the PS3 has a chance in hell of pulling that off decently in a sports game.

This is still a lowly 720p we are talking about here. It's nothing special. We aren't talking high-res anything just improved and more realistic look to what is already there. Plenty of games on PS3 like Killzone and Uncharted and a lot of other games have shown much of this is capable with higher budgets and it has even trickled down to lower budget games at this point. Modders are not exactly modding JUST for high-res machines I don't see your point at all. Lower your resolution and framerate and the mod still works and it still looks great. It has nothing to do with taxing the system really. We are talking some grass textures and better clouds. That isn't going to ruin a PS3 lol. These guys have some outstanding hookups so I know it is possible.

I'll give you the PS3 is an ancient machine but I never said I was expecting 3D grass and 1080p 60fps so.... I also said the main problem is color matching and it IS a huge problem. I don't know but if anybody here actually attends baseball games I don't know how you wouldn't want improvements in the color area.

# 55 MLB Bob @ 12/06/12 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Unit303


	I do realize they are for PC as I play them on my high-end PC. It doesn't have to be high-res textures and it doesn't really have to be extremely demanding clouds. All it takes is some creativity and objective analysis of how clouds and grass look. Right now they are pretty mediocre if you ask me. And I'm not sure we are the same page. Who ever mentioned 3D grass? As if the PS3 has a chance in hell of pulling that off decently in a sports game. This is still a lowly 720p we are talking about here. It's nothing special. We aren't talking high-res anything just improved and more realistic look to what is already there. Plenty of games on PS3 like Killzone and Uncharted and a lot of other games have shown much of this is capable with higher budgets and it has even trickled down to lower budget games at this point. Modders are not exactly modding JUST for high-res machines I don't see your point at all. Lower your resolution and framerate and the mod still works and it still looks great. It has nothing to do with taxing the system really. We are talking some grass textures and better clouds. That isn't going to ruin a PS3 lol. These guys have some outstanding hookups so I know it is possible. I'll give you the PS3 is an ancient machine but I never said I was expecting 3D grass and 1080p 60fps so.... I also said the main problem is color matching and it IS a huge problem. I don't know but if anybody here actually attends baseball games I don't know how you wouldn't want improvements in the color area.

Then just except its a conspiracy to keep grass and clouds from looking real. Just because it isnt 110% accurate doesnt means its trash. Priorities, and to some, their opinions about what is a priority doesnt match what they want. Its not like the grass is purple instead of green or clouds are tigerstriped, they are doing more than an acceptable job, IMO.

# 56 Unit303 @ 12/06/12 05:53 PM

The clouds and grass textures are acceptable. The hideous color matching is not IMO. They set the bar not me. When fields don't look even 5% like their real life counterparts, as in Toronto, you do have to take a look at what is going on with the game.

# 57 Lovesports @ 12/06/12 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Unit303


	The clouds and grass textures are acceptable. The hideous color matching is not IMO. They set the bar not me. When fields don't look even 5% like their real life counterparts, as in Toronto, you do have to take a look at what is going on with the game.

You can always play 2k which has stunning graphics, zombie like player models and accurate uniform colors hahaha

# 58 Armor and Sword @ 12/06/12 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Unit303


	The clouds and grass textures are acceptable. The hideous color matching is not IMO. They set the bar not me. When fields don't look even 5% like their real life counterparts, as in Toronto, you do have to take a look at what is going on with the game.

Whaaaat?

Good grief.

# 59 riotmonster @ 12/06/12 10:17 PM

I will never play this game again due to the grass not being green enough.

# 60 Woodweaver @ 12/06/12 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by riotmonster


	I will never play this game again due to the grass not being green enough.

I thought it was too green. I heard it's always greener.

On a serious note, I do know you have been heard, but I don't know what changes would entail or where they live on a priority list. I'll ask.

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