All-Star Baseball 2003 featuring Derek Jeter
All-Star Baseball 2003 featuring Derek Jeter is a PlayStation 2 sports game released in 2002 developed by Acclaim Entertainment. It centers on competitive sport controls, sport controls, and shifts between attack and defense, with controls and information arranged around the DualShock 2 twin analog sticks, directional pad, shoulder and face buttons, with a dedicated peripheral only where explicitly required.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.7 / 10
About this game
All-Star Baseball 2003 featuring Derek Jeter is a PlayStation 2 sports game centered on competitive sport controls, sport controls, and shifts between attack and defense. Matches, challenges, and tournament goals give sessions clear boundaries, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Players, venues, animation, and score feedback establish the match atmosphere, while 3D scenes, streamed data, cinematics, surround audio, and interlaced television output need to preserve action and state readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that opponent ai, control precision, multiplayer accessories, and period-specific rosters can affect consistency. Platform conditions also include DVD loading, the 8MB Memory Card, analog sticks and pressure-sensitive buttons, Multitap, Network Adapter, dedicated peripherals, and retired online services affect present-day use. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
All-Star Baseball is Acclaim’s baseball simulation series, putting you in charge of pitching, batting and fielding with major-league teams. Later games also let you think beyond the next inning, managing rosters, building an expansion club and revisiting memorable baseball situations.
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Long PS2 franchise play, hindered by tight-play delays.
The PS2 All-Star Baseball 2003 featuring Derek Jeter is strongest when one match feeds a long franchise. Farm teams, trades, salaries, awards and player development give a twenty-season career enduring goals, while exhibitions, ordinary seasons, home-run derby and collectible cards vary the rhythm. At the plate, pitch guessing, cursor position and right-stick direction offer real control, though fast pitches demand considerable practice. The original PS2 review records a more troubling issue in tight situations: individual runner commands and fielding throws respond late, and the camera sometimes cuts before an action is finished. Player animation, stadium detail and informative commentary create a lively broadcast impression, while distant texture shimmer is particularly visible on this console. Four-player exhibitions require a Multitap; that hardware condition matters rather than being an automatic feature. The game suits committed baseball managers who can tolerate local control friction. Shared design with the Xbox release does not erase the documented PS2-specific limits.
Strengths
- Franchise systems and batting choices reward investment.
Weaknesses
- Runner/throw delays, shimmering textures and steep batting.
Who it is for: Fans of long franchise play and demanding batting.
Play notes: Four-player play needs Multitap; original PS2 only.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Franchise breadth supports sustained play. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Complex batting meets rushed pitches and runner lag. | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Strong stadium detail with PS2 texture shimmer. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension PS2 defensive timing suffers despite local play options. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Acclaim
- Publisher
- Acclaim
- Release date
- 2002
- Platforms
- PlayStation 2
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Sports · Primary genre
- Tags
- 3D GraphicsFast-pacedShort SessionsMain Story Under 10 HoursReplayableLow Entry BarrierSports-based PlayPlayer versus PlayerPick-up and PlaySolo-friendly
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
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- Standalone
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- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 2Worldwide2002
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