MLB 14: The Show

Major League Baseball Sports Title

The ninth entry in the MLB: The Show franchise is a great title for PS 3, 4 or Vita players.

PlayStation 3 and Vita players will be able to pick up MLB 14: The Show as soon as April, though PS 4 gamers will have to wait for March. The line up for play-by-play includes Matt Vasgersian, Eric Karros, and Steve Lyons. Fewer games have given much attention to stadium details, which is why it's so nice that the game has done so.

Attention to Detail

For instance, they actually took the time to hire a professional PA announcer to do the stadium voice over work for this game. Mike Carlucci has leant his talent to the game. He is known not only as the Dodger's PA man, but he also has worked for the Ducks and the Kings. He even did the Olympics a few times, which should certainly boost his popularity. Games have been giving this kind of attention to detail since NBA: The Life '06, '07 and '08, which the aforementioned Carlucci was also involved in. Some hockey fans might also know him because he leant his vocal talents to games in that respect as well.

The soundtrack to the game is where Sony Computer Entertainment has taken things to a whole new level though. At one point it would have been unheard of for alternative bands like Band of Skulls and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club to ever make it onto the soundtrack of an extremely mainstream game like this. While some people might make negative comments as to their inclusion, it's actually a positive and rather unexpected twist to be perfectly honest.

Regional Differences

Numerous people in the world of video game media have been commenting on how Miguel Cabera is the featured athlete on the cover. Strangely, though, this single-player and online multiplayer sports game will not feature the prominent Detroit Tigers first basemen on the cover in Canada. Brett Lawrie from the Toronto Blue Jays will be on it. Apparently Sony Computer Entertainment has been trying to attract more Canadian interest by putting in local talent when selling the game outside of the US. Though some people might consider baseball a relatively minor sport out of North America, there could be additional Latin or Japanese players on localized covers in the future as well according to some speculators.