SĬomplete details of this year’s contest will be announced at a later date.ĭeveloped by Visual Concepts, MLB 2K13 will release on March 5 or PS3 and Xbox 260. The Perfect Game Challenge, the $1 million competition from 2K Sports, will also be returning for a fourth consecutive year with a new contest format and ways to win. He edged out MLB 2K12 cover athlete Justin Verlander for the cover, and is the third consecutive Cy Young Award winner to appear on the sleeve of a MLB 2K game.
“We know fans are extremely passionate about the MLB 2K series and the Perfect Game Challenge.”Īmerican League Cy Young Award winner David Price, pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays, was chosen as the cover athlete for MLB 2K13.
“We’d like to thank our league partners for their support in helping us reach an agreement to bring back MLB 2K,” said Jason Argent, VP of marketing at 2K Sports.
The firm worked out an agreement with Major League Baseball, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and Major League Baseball Advanced Media to release the title. Never is this more clear than in playing. There is barely anything negative I can say about MLB 2K12 as a complete package other than the occasional fielding glitch, and maybe the flawed leaderboard ranking system, and as a complete baseball experience there is no reason not to check out this game if you are into baseball. At that point, it simply becomes a head-to-head, single-elimination tournament.Major League Baseball 2K13 will be released in March, 2K has announced. George Carlin said baseball was known as America’s national pastime because it takes so damn long to play a game. The brilliance of the Challenge, though, lies in its grand finale this May. The submissions we got were all over the board - there were ones that were perfect games, ones that may have been perfect but it was hard to tell, and there were even submissions where it was blatantly not even a perfect game! I think this year, with the dynamic nature of it and the tournament, we’re going to have a lot of submissions.” “The way it’s been set up in the past it was a bit more difficult. “It’s the best question, and it’s the toughest one to answer,” says Argent. The 2K team doesn’t really know how many people will qualify. Luckily for me, the contest hadn’t started yet. Unfortunately, catastrophe struck when the power briefly went out in my house and my gem was lost forever. In fact, I’ve actually come within shouting distance of a perfect game using the Rangers’ Neftali Feliz in a playoff game against the Tampa Bay Rays, I hadn’t allowed so much as a baserunner through six innings. MLB 2K12 may have its issues, but its pitching mechanics are superb. Everyone’s going to have their own strategy.” Brida was gunning for a berth in the money round of Major League Baseball 2K12 's 1,000,000 Perfect Game Challenge, a contest that began on Wednesday. “Do I play an ‘easier’ game with the hopes of just getting on the leaderboard, or do I go after a harder one with the chance that it’s going to be a lot tougher to do? We have no idea what we’re going to see, but that’s part of the excitement.
“Part of what we really love about this is that kind of decision,” Argent says. Plus, everything will be tracked real-time for the world to see. However, since beating the Pirates with Roy Halladay won’t get you nearly as high of a score as doing the same thing with Bud Norris and the Astros, decisions aren’t always easy to make. The Perfect Game Challenge, the 1 million competition from 2K Sports, will also be returning for a fourth consecutive year with a new contest format and ways to win. Obviously, you have to get at least one gem to qualify, so some people will assuredly search for the best pitchers against weak lineups. If you throw a perfect game against a really great offense with a low-rated pitcher, your score will be much higher than someone who throws a perfect game with a very high-rated pitcher against a not-so-good offense.” In 2019, Verlander became the sixth pitcher in MLB history to throw three career no-hitters and struck out his 3,000th batter, becoming the 18th pitcher in. “It measures multiple, different aspects of the game the main one is difficulty.
“There’s a proprietary algorithm that has been developed,” continues Argent.