In the world of baseball games, there is one undisputed King of the Diamond. If you?re a baseball fan (on PlayStation platforms, anyway), you know it and love it. It?s MLB The Show. For years, this series sat atop the mound as the only game in town. Then, for some reason, MLB Advanced Media decided to partner with Behaviour Interactive in 2014 to resurrect the ancient R.B.I. Baseball series. Development was quickly handed over to HB Studios in 2015. The result was not pretty. R.B.I. Baseball 19 marks the second year development has been done in-house at MLBAM. After multiple disappointing years, is R.B.I. Baseball 19 finally the year things start to turn around for this arcade franchise"
More of the Same
It seems things haven?t really changed much with R.B.I. Baseball. The same is generally true for most sports games, as developers attempt to perfect what they?ve already released. Unfortunately for R.B.I. Baseball, the series has always needed to fix a lot of things that weren?t really working. What?s worse, none of it seems to have been addressed with the latest release.
It should be a giant red flag that the only trailer released for R.B.I. Baseball 19 prior to release was a semi-flashy montage of pitchers and batters battling it out and little else. Know what isn?t featured in this trailer" Any actual game footage. There?s a good reason for that: R.B.I. Baseball 19 looks like a PS2-era baseball sim, upscaled by the PS4. This may be a budget game, but that?s n...