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MLB 17: The Show

Released: 3/28/2017

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 experience. - Road to The Show: Take complete control in our RPG mode, with new opportunities to make decisions on AND off the field that change the path of your career. - Retro Mode: A retro-sim inspired game play experience that pays homage to the classic baseball games many of us grew up on. - New Ways to Play: Now with new managerial and gameplay options that provide different levels of acceleration to progress your franchise while maintaining the control you want to. - Year-To-Year Saves: No need to start over your Road to The Show career or Franchise from ’16 when you can bring them into The Show 17 with Year-To-Year Saves. Your saves in ’17 will carry over to 18, so play without worry of losing your progress.

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 experience. - Road to The Show: Take complete control in our RPG mode, with new opportunities to make decisions on AND off the field that change the path of your career. - Retro Mode: A retro-sim inspired game play experience that pays homage to the classic baseball games many of us grew up on. - New Ways to Play: Now with new managerial and gameplay options that provide different levels of acceleration to progress your franchise while maintaining the control you want to. - Year-To-Year Saves: No need to start over your Road to The Show career or Franchise from ’16 when you can bring them into The Show 17 with Year-To-Year Saves. Your saves in ’17 will carry over to 18, so play without worry of losing your progress.

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 experience. - Road to The Show: Take complete control in our RPG mode, with new opportunities to make decisions on AND off the field that change the path of your career. - Retro Mode: A retro-sim inspired game play experience that pays homage to the classic baseball games many of us grew up on. - New Ways to Play: Now with new managerial and gameplay options that provide different levels of acceleration to progress your franchise while maintaining the control you want to. - Year-To-Year Saves: No need to start over your Road to The Show career or Franchise from ’16 when you can bring them into The Show 17 with Year-To-Year Saves. Your saves in ’17 will carry over to 18, so play without worry of losing your progress.

Critics
86
Metacritic
69

Score Breakdown

85.6

Critic Average

38 reviews

N/A

Steam User Score

Less than 50 reviews

69

Metacritic User Score

160 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
N/A
Metacritic Disparity
+16.6
Combined Disparity
+16.6

Average of both sources

Review Timing

4 early (11%)34 launch window (89%)0 late (0%)