It’s a good thing that The Show excels so much on the field, because it’s gotten long in the tooth in other ways. Longtime players will find very little new to experiment with. Other than the overhauled Diamond Dynasty mode – a microtransaction-driven virtual card-collecting game that apes FIFA’s wildly successful Ultimate Team – there are just cosmetic additions to the other game options. Snappier menus and Owner Expectations that will get you fired if you don’t meet them are basically all that has been improved in the stalwart Franchise mode. Road To The Show, the mode that allows you to create a player and take them from the minors to the big leagues, returns virtually untouched. It’s extremely hard to drum up enthusiasm to hop back into the same grind again.
That’s the biggest issue with The Show; its on-field play is superior to the competition but its modes are trumped by them. NBA 2K15’s innovative MyPlayer features an interactive story that brings players and coaches to life over the course of a career, whereas The Show’s single player campaign is the same dry menu-driven affair it’s been for a decade. FIFA’s Ultimate Team inspires millions of people around the world to build custom teams with collectable player cards, while The Show’s Diamond Dynasty copycat sports sluggish menus and relies on a creaky online infrastructure. Madden’s Connected Franchise online leagues seamlessly bring players together in cooperative communities, but The Show’s online leagues are barely functional due to mysterious bugs and hour-plus long game times.
MLB 15 The Show doubled down this season on the field, and the results are smashing. It simply looks and plays better than any baseball game ever has. That doesn’t hide the fact that the game also fails to innovate off the field in any material way. While that’s not a fatal flaw, there will come a time in the near future when its fans will demand new and interesting ways to enjoy its beauty.
This game was reviewed on PS4.
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