Mario Bautista
- MLB Pro Spirit to feature all 30 real teams and their players’ likenesses
- Completing limited-time events will net Pro Spirit players with special rewards
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Konami’s latest baseball game is taking a more authentic approach to the sport, as MLB Pro Spirit launches on iOS and Android this autumn.
The Japanese corporation received a licence from MLB and the MLB Players Association to feature all 30 real teams and their players’ likenesses in Pro Spirit. Naturally, gamers will collect and curate their own roster from these many available players and aim to overcome all other teams around.
MLB manoeuvre
Donning a more realistic visual style than Konami’s more cartoony, long-running Power Pros series, MLB Pro Spirit is all about authenticity – whether that’s realistic organ music, broadcast-style commentary or natural “stadium sounds”.
And as a mobile exclusive, this latest baseball game will offer the world of MLB to fans “anytime, anywhere”.
In the single-player mode, players will choose a league and a division to participate in, giving them some influence over the teams they’ll compete against, with a maximum of 52 matches per season. The online mode, meanwhile, will offer players the chance to pit their skills against others in real-time in Ranked Games or Custom Games.
In true mobile fashion, playing games, clearing missions and completing limited-time events will net Pro Spirit players with special rewards used to collect new baseballers and build up their existing team. Shohei Ohtani, a Grade III Cover Athlete, will also be obtainable for a limited time after launch to celebrate the game’s release.
“Real Baseball, Real Fast. eBaseball: MLB PRO SPIRIT Launches Fall 2024!” Konami posted on Twitter.
The game maker’s experience with baseball games dates back to the 1990s with SNES game Pawapuro ’94, though most titles in Konami’s baseball catalogue have been developed with an NBP licence, leveraging Japanese teams and players.
Only a handful have used a Western MLB licence, such as Pawapuro Wii and MLB Power Pros, and now MLB Pro Spirit too.
