MLB 08: The Show (2008) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

MLB 08: The Show

2008's iteration of Sony's first-party exclusive baseball franchise brings the well-regarded gameplay into next-gen with new detailed textures, lifelike player faces, online leagues, weekly roster updates and…

83 4 March 2008

What MLB 08: The Show is

MLB 08: The Show is a sport game developed by SCE San Diego Studio and released in 2008. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

MLB 08: The Show is a 2008 baseball video game developed by San Diego Studio published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. It is the third installment in the MLB: The Show series. Ryan Howard, all-star first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, is featured as the game's cover athlete.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the MLB series

MLB 08: The Show is the 65th of 129 entries we hold in the MLB series. The next entry was Major League Baseball 2K8: Fantasy All-Stars in 2008. Its critic score of 83 is 7 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is MLB 06: The Show at 90.

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How it was received

MLB 08: The Show holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 18 points above the year average.

What it launched against

MLB 08: The Show launched on 4 March 2008, within three weeks of God of War: Chains of Olympus, Audiosurf, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and Penumbra: Black Plague. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: God of War: Chains of Olympus, Audiosurf, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Penumbra: Black Plague.

Cheats and codes

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