• Publisher: SCEA
  • Release Date: Jun 17, 2002
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

  • Summary: If you must have a baseball game that features the latest player rosters and you're bound to the old PlayStation, MLB 2003 is the best and only choice.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. 90
    Combine excellent gameplay and some of the most in-depth gaming modes with the vocal talents of the legendary Vin Scully and what do you get? You get one hell of a baseball title.
  2. Aside from some fielding glitches and a few graphical annoyances, this is a great, replay worthy sports title.
  3. Being the only 32-bit baseball title with up-to-date rosters, however, doesn’t mean a heck of a lot when everything else looks like the rehashed and barely-improved years-old product that this title actually is.
  4. It's not an ideal game--the gameplay can seem a little plodding at times thanks to the abundance of stats and options, and the AI is sometimes a little too skilled to be realistic--but overall, it's a perfectly good game of baseball.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. CollinB.
    10
    The best.
  2. PatrickI.
    9
    It's a damn good game but it could be a little harder and the announcers need to be better. Other than that it'd be a 10.
  3. A.J.L.
    8
    It's a cool game, I've been playing it for like 2 days and already I've noticed problems... 1) When players are traded to a different league (Say Barry Bonds to the American League) they don't show up in the all-star game as playing for the American Leage, they still show up on the National League team. 2) Sometimes you'll hit a homerun and it won't count, or sometimes it might not even count for a hit (eg. 0 for 4 1HR 3 RBI's). 3) The announcers suck. 4) The layout (eg. franchise, season, memory card, etc) sucks. It is a cluster. Besides for all of this it is a great game. Bonds hit's like 3 hr's minimum every game... but that's always fun. Expand
  4. JimP.
    0
    This game is just dumb. its just messed up. . .this is 2003 get a grip people, make the game right and make it more of a challenge. its to easy.

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