MLB 13 The Show Preview (Gamesradar)

[Steve_OS]

Gamesradar has just posted their MLB 13 The Show preview, discussing Beginner Mode, camera angles, roster updates, player-specific swing animations and more.

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In terms of visual realism with the players themselves, we didn't notice any improvements with textures, but Sony was proud to show off the player-specific swing animations. While we're used to seeing sluggers' trademark stances and walks to the batter's box, this is the first MLB The Show to have the players' distinct follow-through animations of in-field hits and home runs. For the statistics nut, the newly added The Show Live is going to ensure you'll be playing MLB 13 every day from April to October. This feature pulls the current day's stats and line-ups right off MLB.com. Teams turn in their lineups hours before the start of each game, so you could actually play that evening's game with every miniscule change factored in--say, if Josh Hamilton ended up batting seventh instead of clean up.

[ParisB]

A lot of people will be glad to hear about the follow through animations!

[Scott]

Looks amazing!!

[seanjeezy]

Bryce has a two-handed follow through... That pic of CC running off the field looks nice though!

[Curahee]

This is probably the most intriguing to me....

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For the statistics nut, the newly added The Show Live is going to ensure you'll be playing MLB 13 every day from April to October. This feature pulls the current day's stats and line-ups right off MLB.com. Teams turn in their lineups hours before the start of each game, so you could actually play that evening's game with every miniscule change factored in--say, if Josh Hamilton ended up batting seventh instead of clean up.

I'll be interested to see how well this works and if its for online only, offline only or both.

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by seanjeezy

Bryce has a two-handed follow through... That pic of CC running off the field looks nice though!

Bryce Harper's follow through has been changed to 2-handed in the current up to date roster to ship with the game...

Plus...you can edit the follow through for ANY player in the editor to be 1 or 2-handed.

M.K.
Knight165

[metsfan4life1]

First thing for me will be to make sure David has his two handed follow through ;D

[seanjeezy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

Bryce Harper's follow through has been changed to 2-handed in the current up to date roster to ship with the game... Plus...you can edit the follow through for ANY player in the editor to be 1 or 2-handed. M.K. Knight165

Is that something that was just changed while you guys were there, or is that completely separate from the create-a-stance option? BTW, when are you planning to do your writeup? I'm really anxious to hear about the changes to franchise!!