All-Star Baseball 2002

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All-Star Baseball 2002
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Developer(s) Acclaim Studios Austin
Publisher(s) Acclaim Entertainment [lower-alpha 1]
Series All-Star Baseball
Platform(s) PlayStation 2, GameCube
ReleasePlayStation 2
  • NA: March 16, 2001 [1]
  • EU: May 25, 2001
  • JP: October 4, 2001
GameCube
  • NA: November 18, 2001 [2]
Genre(s) Sports game
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

All-Star Baseball 2002 is a baseball sports game released for PlayStation 2 and GameCube in 2001.

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Reception

The PlayStation 2 version received "generally favorable reviews", while the GameCube version received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [3] [4] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 24 out of 40 for PlayStation 2 version. [9]

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  1. Released under the Acclaim Sports label