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All-Star Baseball 2003 cover

2002 · Acclaim Studios Austin · Baseball · Sports

All-Star Baseball 2003

The All-Star Baseball baseball video game series was developed and published by Acclaim Entertainment. The series began in 1997 with the release of All-Star Baseball '97 Featuring Frank Thomas, the successor to Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball. New York Yankees play-by-play announcers John Sterling and Michael Kay were the announcers for 1998-2000 editions of the game. The final release in the series (due to the bankruptcy of Acclaim) is All-Star Baseball 2005.

Released
7 March 2002
Platforms
Game Boy AdvanceGameCubePlayStation 2Xbox
Genres
BaseballSports
Developers
Acclaim Studios AustinSoftware Creations
Publishers
Acclaim Entertainment
Series
All-Star Baseball
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Third person
Themes
Non-fiction
Country
United States
Age ratings
ESRB E
Languages
English, Japanese
Entry
#6 in All-Star Baseball

About

All Star Baseball 2003 is a 2002 baseball video game developed by Acclaim Studios Austin and published by Acclaim Entertainment. The game features Derek Jeter on the cover.

There are several different modes of play, such as exhibition, managing an existing Major League Baseball team, creating a team or creating a player. Many United States cities are available for "expansion", in addition to Mexico City and Puerto Rico.

Keywords

  • baseball
  • year in the title
  • san diego padres
  • new york yankees
  • baltimore orioles
  • commentary
  • xbox 360 backwards compatibility

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

The game received "generally favorable reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the GameCube and Xbox versions were ported for release on August 8, 2002, followed by the PS2 version on November 14, 2002, Gamespot praised the game for being an improvement over their prior year's entry, stating "All-Star Baseball 2003 is what last year's game would have become if it hadn't been rushed out the door to make the GameCube's launch." Famitsu gave it a score of 25 out of 40 for the GameCube version, and 26 out of 40 for the Xbox version.

By the end of 2002, the game sold over 563,000 copies in North America, becoming the best-selling baseball game of the year in the region. The game sold over 600,000 copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling title in the series.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Releases by platform
PlatformReleasedRegions
GameCube25 February 2002North America · Japan 8 August 2002
Xbox26 February 2002Worldwide
PlayStation 226 February 2002Worldwide

Title IDsone per regional release, with its latest update

Title ids and disc serials by release
PlatformTitle IDRegionLatest update
Game Boy AdvanceAGB-AA3E-USANorth America—
GameCubeGA3J51Japan—
GA3E51North America—
PlayStation 2SCES-50447Europe—
SLES-50447Europe—
SLPM-65137Japan—
SLUS-20311North America—
SLUS-28007North America—
XboxAC-002North America—

Box artone per regional release we hold art for

Editions and related releases

Ported as
All-Star Baseball 2003

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Collections6 collections

Platform libraries

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