MLB The Show 16
Baseball games don't get much better than this. MLB The Show 16 continues Sony's acclaimed slugger series in triumphant fashion, where every strikeout feels like a monumental feat, and a grand slam is just as…
MLB The Show 16 is a sport developed by SCE San Diego Studio, released 29 March 2016 on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
What MLB The Show 16 is
MLB The Show 16 is a sport game developed by SCE San Diego Studio and released in 2016. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
MLB The Show 16 is a 2016 baseball video game developed by San Diego Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. It is the eleventh installment in the MLB: The Show series. It is the first entry in the series to not have a portable version, and is the final entry to be released on the PlayStation 3. Toronto Blue Jays third baseman and 2015 American League MVP winner Josh Donaldson is featured on the main cover of the game. He also appears on the separate Canadian cover edition, making him the first player to be on both the American and Canadian versions of the game. Jung-ho Kang of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Wei-Yin Chen of the Miami Marlins…
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 and Single player.
Where it sits in the MLB series
MLB The Show 16 is the 97th of 129 entries we hold in the MLB series. It arrived 12 months after MLB 15: The Show. The next entry was MLB 9 Innings in 2016. Its critic score of 85 is 9 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is MLB 06: The Show at 90.
How it was received
MLB The Show 16 holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What it launched against
MLB The Show 16 launched on 29 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for MLB The Show 16 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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