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In tallying sports game reviews, it's the cold souls who count most. And that lack of risk taking in part accounts for the overall rise. And we also saw a slew of licensed Olympics video games that weren't worth anyone's time.Дid I miss something? Didn't we just not award a Sports Video Game of the Year? Isn't this the year in which no one is taking any risks? But 2011 had Top Spin 4, to 2012's mediocre Grand Slam Tennis 2.

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And series like Pro Evolution Soccer and WWE made modest but noteworthy gains. It's true that 2012 saw great games like UFC Undisputed 3 and SSX which didn't appear in 2011. Of the Big Four-the year-in, year-out Great Sports Games- FIFA and NBA 2K performed roughly the same in review scores while MLB The Show and NHL dipped by similar amounts. I know Madden was shades better in 2012 than the year before, but NCAA Football dropped about as much as its pro football sibling improved. Measuring the same titles, it showed a smaller, but still significant increase of 5.83, from an average score of 69.23 in 2011 to 75.06 in 2012. To make sure I wasn't crazy, I went to GameRankings. To that I added any of THQ's UFC and WWE licensed titles, and the F1 and NASCAR licensed racing games.) (To clarify my methodology, I took anything that was classified sports by Metacritic, excluding iOS titles. In 2010, sports video games averaged 67.10, so the seven point jump to 2012 looks even larger. Taken at face value, that's an astonishing jump in overall quality-for an entire segment-especially one whose most visible releases are most vulnerable to criticism that they're insufficient updates of the previous year's version. That's up 6.4 points from 2011's average of 68.10.

On average, 78 sports games (this includes different platform versions of the same title) rated 74.19 this year, according to Metacritic. And even then, the numbers were, on the surface, surprising. But it made me curious enough to go digging into how sports video games were scored. If anything, it's proof of how observers reacted to the product put on the field. This isn't proof of overall game quality any more than MVP voting is proof of overall player quality. Interestingly, the three console platforms' average review scores all improved slightly. Fewer titles surpassed the all-important 90-which practically guarantees job security to those who developed or greenlit the project-than in 2011. It has been corrected.Д®arlier this week, Metacritic bemoaned 2012 as a year of poorer review scores for video games than the one preceding it. It makes good sense for 2K, as it widens a sales potential on the PlayStation 3, where Sony's in-house MLB The Show series is utterly dominant, and there is no basketball option other than NBA 2K13, one of 2012's best sports video games and a widely acclaimed series for many years.Д¬orrection: The previous headline mistakenly quoted the combo pack's price. The Combo Pack may make little consumer sense for those who are interested primarily in baseball, or in basketball only. Evidently baseball wasn't willing to take that, and struck a new pact with 2K, having no other options. That would have meant no new baseball game on the Xbox 360, North America's dominant console, in this season.

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2K Sports was, by all appearances, ready to walk away once its license with Major League Baseball expired at the end of 2012. Yes, technically, both games retail for $59.99 each, but four months after release, NBA 2K13 may be found new-in-the-box for $29.99 to $39.99 for consoles.Д®xpectations are low for MLB 2K13, which was a last-minute announcement and appears to be rolling out under a one-year deal only. The combo pack is $79.99 and will be available on March 5, when MLB 2K13 hits shelves. The publisher is doing the same thing again this year, but listing the bundle for $10 more. Last year, 2K Sports did a shrewd thing, bootstrapping its flagging MLB 2K series to its best-in-class NBA 2K in a combo package announced a month before the baseball game was due for release.

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