Either way, it's a loss, since online leagues are a staple of sports games. Perhaps it wasn't being used that much, or perhaps it was removed for budgetary reasons. The feature set has been fully carried forward with the one noteworthy exception being the removal of online league support.

When we say that MLB 2K13 is the same game as MLB 2K12, we mean it. Aside from new rosters, a new schedule most noteworthy for the oddly annoying move of the Houston Astros to the American League, and the deletion of online leagues, this is simply a repackaging of what has come before. This ostensibly 2013 baseball game from 2K Sports looks, sounds, and plays exactly like the 2012 baseball game from 2K Sports. And then there's MLB 2K13, a sports game that lives up to all the cliches about publishers doing little besides changing the packaging and the number in the game title. Still, you generally get some sort of new feature or cool new physics to take the sting out of spending $60. It's hard to jam in innovations alongside the usual schedule and roster updates, given the lack of development time available in the measly 12 months between seasons. Sports games take a lot of abuse for their one-year production cycles.

Mlb 2k12 xbox