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== Description == | == Description == | ||
Major League Baseball acquired the rights to the ''R.B.I. Baseball'' name from Six Degrees Games, who registered a trademark for the name in 2007 after it had expired in 1995. Major League Baseball Advanced Media hired Behaviour Interactive, a Montreal-based developer now famous for the multiplayer horror game ''Dead by Daylight'', to develop the first title in the rebooted series in 2014. Jamie Leece, later Vice President of Gaming and VR for MLB Advanced Media, had joined MLBAM in 2012 after spending three years at Behaviour. | |||
Gameplay is modeled after the original NES ''R.B.I. Baseball'' game: Hitters can only move around in the box and swing. Pitchers can throw a faster pitch by holding down or a slower pitch that sometimes drops to the ground by holding up, and left and right can move the pitch around in mid-air. Flyballs produce a pitched whistle in the air to indicate their height. | Gameplay is modeled after the original NES ''R.B.I. Baseball'' game: Hitters can only move around in the box and swing. Pitchers can throw a faster pitch by holding down or a slower pitch that sometimes drops to the ground by holding up, and left and right can move the pitch around in mid-air. Flyballs produce a pitched whistle in the air to indicate their height. | ||
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The graphical style is slightly cartoon-ish realism. Player likenesses are limited to only skin tones and choosing from one of a few body types to represent each player. | The graphical style is slightly cartoon-ish realism. Player likenesses are limited to only skin tones and choosing from one of a few body types to represent each player. | ||
''R.B.I. Baseball 14'', along with all the later games in the series, has been delisted from sale on all official digital storefronts, as part of MLB’s 2021 partnership agreement with Sony and San Diego Studio. Once MLB earned publishing rights for ''MLB The Show'' on Xbox consoles, they delisted their competing baseball game series. For the digital-release-only ''R.B.I. Baseball 14'' and ''15'', this means the only available legitimate copies of the game had to be purchased before the 2021 delisting. | ''R.B.I. Baseball 14'', along with all the later games in the series, has been delisted from sale on all official digital storefronts, as part of MLB’s 2021 partnership agreement with Sony and San Diego Studio. Once MLB earned publishing rights for ''MLB The Show'' on Xbox consoles, they delisted their competing baseball game series. For the digital-release-only ''R.B.I. Baseball 14'' and ''15'', this means the only available legitimate copies of the game had to be purchased before the 2021 delisting. | ||
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