Nothing in the game looks horrifically bad per se, and in reality the game looks pretty good. MLB 2K12 is a DX9 title, so everything in the game looks pretty flat and you won't see any crazy tessellation or lighting effects in play to help with realism.
Console hardware specs haven't changed at all in that time period either - quite a coincidence. This game is ridiculously easy to run and the system requirements haven't really changed at all from 2009 to now. The game's installation folder currently weighs in at just under 8 GB, though there is some modding in play with my version of the game which I'll address in a bit. I've put a ton of time into the game over the past six months, and with baseball's actual pennant races heating up I figured there's no better time than the present to talk about MLB 2K12.
2K Sports didn't bring a baseball game to the PC until 2009's Major League Baseball 2K9, but since then they've released a followup on PC every year.ĢK's latest offering in the series is Major League Baseball 2K12. In 2005, Take Two Interactive signed an agreement with the MLB Players Association that gave them exclusive third-party rights to MLB games and effectively shutting out EA Sports.
The only universally-acclaimed titles available for PC today are EA Sports' FIFA series and 2K Sports' NBA2K series, both of which will be releasing 2013 versions in the next 3-4 weeks. The latest Tiger Woods PGA Tour game is basically an extension of the F2P Tiger Woods Online and has a fantastic score of 43/100 on Metacritic. EA Sports all but abandoned PC gamers after Madden 08, NHL 09, and MVP 05.
Sports gaming on the PC has been more or less universally terrible for the last three to five years.