MLB Power Pros
MLB Power Pros is a different take on the MLB license. While the player has the ability to play as authentic players on actual MLB teams, the players are represented by anime characters, with large heads, feet…
MLB Power Pros is a simulator developed by Konami, released 3 October 2007 on Wii and PlayStation 2.
What MLB Power Pros is
MLB Power Pros is a simulator game developed by Konami and released in 2007. It was published by 2K Sports. It is available on Wii and PlayStation 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
MLB Power Pros is a different take on the MLB license. While the player has the ability to play as authentic players on actual MLB teams, the players are represented by anime characters, with large heads, feet and hands with no arms and legs. The game has been a mainstay in Japan for the last 15 years. Power Pros does feature options from other real-time games such as Season, Multiplayer and Exhibition modes, it also has a story based mode where the player can create their own character and play up to 20 years, doing activities such as earning the right to move from the minors to the majors, landing big contracts, as well as buying houses and cars, make friends on and off the field, as well…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the MLB series
MLB Power Pros is the 63rd of 129 entries we hold in the MLB series. It arrived 7 months after MLB 07: The Show. The next entry was MLB 08: The Show in 2008. Its critic score of 80 is 4 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is MLB 06: The Show at 90.
How it was received
MLB Power Pros holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 16 points above the year average.
What it launched against
MLB Power Pros launched on 3 October 2007, within three weeks of Portal, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Portal, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
Official trailer
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