World Series Baseball 2K1

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World Series Baseball 2K1
World Series Baseball 2K1 Coverart.jpg
North American Dreamcast cover art
Developer(s) WOW Entertainment
Publisher(s) Sega
Platform(s) Dreamcast
Release
  • NA: July 25, 2000 [1]
  • JP: March 22, 2001
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

World Series Baseball 2K1 [lower-alpha 1] is a sports video game developed by WOW Entertainment and published by Sega for the Dreamcast in 2000.

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It was the first game in the modern series to be featured on the Dreamcast, and was the spiritual successor to World Series Baseball for the Sega Genesis.[ citation needed ] It was released in July 2000 to coincide with the 2000 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Atlanta.[ citation needed ]

World Series Baseball 2K1 was the first game in the series since World Series Baseball '98 in 1997. Sega had announced that a World Series Baseball game would be a launch title for the Dreamcast's 1998 release, [2] but the Dreamcast launched without any baseball games.

Reception

The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [3] Rob Smolka of NextGen said of the game, "If lifelike graphics are what you want, save yourself $60 and turn on ESPN; the gameplay isn't worth a dime." [13]

The game was a runner-up for GameSpot 's annual "Most Disappointing Game" award among console games, which ultimately went to Shenmue . The staff called the former "lackluster" and noted that Sega was "well known for producing superior sports games". [16]

Notes

  1. ↑ Japanese: ワールドシリーズ ベースボール 2K1, Hepburn: Wārudo Shirīzu Bēsubōru 2K1
  2. ↑ Three critics of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game each a score of 3/10, 5/10, and 2.5/10.
  3. ↑ In GameFan 's viewpoint of the game, one critic gave it a score of 49, and the other 54.

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