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2K Sports' MLB Superstars brings baseball into 'a totally new realm' photo

If you’re one of the people who can’t get enough of sports minigame collections on the Wii (wait...there are people like that?), then boy, do I have a game for you! 2K Sports has just sent over the first screenshots of their upcoming sports minigame collection for the Wii, MLB Superstars, and they look -- well, not terrible, actually (the images, that is).

But the game’s premise certainly isn’t heartening. The press release (after the jump) mentions six minigames that “speak to the kid in all of us.” The idea here is to have baseball players (real ones, mind you -- remember, 2K Sports has the exclusive MLB license) playing ... wait for it ... sports that aren’t baseball, but with a baseball twist. Or something. Wait, what? Try to make sense of that from the three screens in the gallery below.

This includes games like Baseball Pachinko, Baseball Bocci, and Baseball Golf. Please tell me I’m not the only person whose head is exploding at the moment (and not in a good way). Damn it. I apologize for being so cynical about this stuff -- for all I know, MLB Superstars could be a ton of fun -- but let’s face it: this game, at first glance, looks to be what we in the biz like to call “shovelware.” We’ll have to wait and see, though; the game is due out this fall.

2K Sports announces first screens from MLB Superstars

MLB Superstars – which debuts on the Wii™ home video game system from Nintendo this fall – takes America's favorite pastime into a totally new realm by bringing fans’ favorite players and teams out of their natural environments and showcasing them in over half a dozen different mini games that speak to the kid in all of us. Fully utilizing the Wii’s motion sensing capabilities and easy pick-up-and-play functionality, MLB Superstars puts a brand new spin on classic games with Baseball Pachinko, Baseball Bocci, and Baseball Golf. For more information, please visit www.2ksports.com.

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Samit Sarkar is a founding Destructoid editor and go-to Sports guy. Samit was the son of the Duke of Knees, rescued from a burning village in the afghan desert by a golden condor. He is an ace Backgammon player and lost both legs in a whaling tour. He lives for free in a nursery in Scotland where he teaches monks how to capture butterflies without hurting them. Likes Confuse Ray, Feel My Blade A Mabari War Hound, Snot, Spiral Arrow, Argo, Dan Smith's critical hit bark, Rolling things up into my life Meet the rest of the team



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Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/04/2008 17:19
Holyetheline
This is the most terrible idea I have ever heard. Who the hell let this stoned-vision get made into a videogame?
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/04/2008 17:43
TrailerParkJesus
This is why I can't take the Wii seriously. Cringe inducing, face palming, games for babies.
John B's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/04/2008 18:01
John B
I'm not a Wii fanboy (I've been putting more hours into Ratchet and Clank and NeverWinter Nights 2 lately) and I'll gladly defend it against any of the sniveling, holier-than-thou, anti-Wii trolls on D-Toid; however, I am in complete earnest when I say STOP IT WITH THE F**KING MINI-GAMES!!!

Give us more games like No More Heroes, Okami, and I'll even throw in Need for Speed for some diversity ... but STOP IT WITH THE F**KING MINI-GAMES, damn it!
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/04/2008 18:10
Darren Nakamura
The fact that this story went up almost immediately after the Super Mario Sluggers review is funny to me. HOW COMPLETELY NEW THIS IS, fantasy in my baseball and all of that.
Butmac's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/04/2008 23:23
Butmac
The only baseball game you need on the Wii is PowerPros - thats IT.
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