Baseball, the American national pastime. For 141 years, it is a game whose numbers and names need no introduction. Mantle. DiMaggio. .406, 755. Ren. Stimpy.
2K Sports has laid another seven-figure bounty on a perfect game thrown in its Major League Baseball game. Players have had about a month to practice with MLB 2K11′s pitching and fielding; the chase for 27 straight outs officially begins at noon EDT tomorrow.
It’s not the return of MVP Baseball, the long lost and lamented Major League Baseball title that went into exile after 2005, but EA Sports has gotten back on the field with MLB in World Series Superstars, a Facebook game rumored to be in development that launched by surprise today.
As you tour the 30 ballparks of Major League Baseball 2K11, you’ll see games there from a centre field camera view unique to each stadium. I can vouch for this feature’s authenticity – because I did the work behind it.
In January, 2K Sports put up a $US1 million prize for the first person to pitch a perfect game in MLB 2K10. Today an Alabama man is $US1 million richer.
2K Sports is offering a $US1 million prize to the first player to throw a perfect game in MLB 2K10, laying down the bounty as a statement of confidence in the authenticity of their game’s revamped pitching controls.