
Gameplay: This is the template that baseball games should be copying for gameplay. For now, we’ll just have to enjoy what we were able to get, and what we did get was pretty dang awesome. It’s a shame that exclusive licenses became a thing for most sports video games, because I truly wonder how far we could have pushed the envelope if some of these franchises were still able to make baseball games. While neither of these franchises is still in production, they represent part of the journey that has led us to games like what MLB: The Show and Out of the Park Baseball have become today. Photorealistic graphics (or as good as it gets for the time period anyway), deep rosters, lots of ratings, real stadiums, real teams, and gameplay that does its best to mimic what the real sport is all about.

When people think of sports video games, these are the types of games they think of.
