World Series Baseball 2K2

World Series Baseball 2K2, or World Series Baseball as it is known for Xbox, is a sports game developed by Visual Concepts and published by Sega for the Dreamcast and Xbox. It is the first game in the modern series to be featured on the Xbox and the first title in the series developed by Visual Concepts. It is the successor to the World Series Baseball series for the Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, and Dreamcast. It was released in 2001 to coincide with the beginning of the 2002 baseball season.

This article is about the specific Xbox game. For other uses, see World Series Baseball (disambiguation).
World Series Baseball 2K2
North American Xbox cover art
Developer(s)Visual Concepts
Publisher(s)Sega
Platform(s)Dreamcast, Xbox
ReleaseDreamcast
  • NA: August 15, 2001
  • JP: April 18, 2002
Xbox
  • NA: May 19, 2002
Genre(s)Sports game
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

The game and the rest of the 2K titles on the Dreamcast have had their online components revived and are completely playable online.[1]

Gameplay

World Series Baseball consists of many game modes and features. The game modes are Play Now, Season, Franchise, and Create-A-Player. Jason Giambi is on the cover of the game.

Some new features updated from the Dreamcast version is in-depth trading and a 15- and 60-day Disabled List. In the new franchise mode there is a Management Draft, Rookie Draft, and a Free Agent Signing Period. Create-A-Player is also highly updated from the last version.

The online component of the Dreamcast version was brought back online by Shuouma on March 1, 2018 with plans to bring back other Sega sports in the near future as well.[2][3]

Reception

The Xbox version received "favorable" reviews, while the Dreamcast version received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[4][5] Maxim gave the latter console version a negative review, a few weeks before its release Stateside.[25] However, Jim Preston of NextGen called the same console version "A vast improvement over the original with only a few shortcomings to mar the outing."[23] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 25 out of 40.[9]

References
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  8. EGM staff (July 2002). "World Series Baseball (Xbox)". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 156. Ziff Davis. p. 124.
  9. "ワールドシリーズ ベースボール 2K2". Famitsu (in Japanese). Enterbrain. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
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  16. Satterfield, Shane (August 15, 2001). "World Series Baseball 2K2 Review [date mislabeled as "May 17, 2006"]". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  17. MacDonald, Ryan (May 31, 2002). "World Series Baseball Review". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on December 11, 2004. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  18. Hiscock, Josh (August 23, 2001). "World Series Baseball 2K2". PlanetDreamcast. IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  19. Tsotsos, Alex (June 5, 2002). "World Series Baseball". SportPlanet. IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on January 1, 2003. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  20. Romano, Natalie (June 4, 2002). "Sega Sports(tm) World Series® Baseball Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on August 13, 2007. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  21. Chau, Anthony (August 17, 2001). "World Series Baseball 2K2". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  22. Goldstein, Hilary (May 31, 2002). "World Series Baseball Review". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  23. Preston, Jim (November 2001). "World Series Baseball 2K2". NextGen. No. 83. Imagine Media. p. 109. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  24. "World Series Baseball". Official Xbox Magazine. Imagine Media. July 2002. p. 74.
  25. Boyce, Ryan (August 4, 2001). "World Series Baseball 2K2". Maxim. MaximNet, Inc. Archived from the original on August 7, 2001. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
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