World Series Baseball 2K3

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World Series Baseball 2K3

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Blue Shift, Exile Interactive, Visual Concepts

Licensor: ESPN

Genre: Sports

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	2003-03-17	$49.9549.95^[1]	SLUS-20611
US	2003-03-10	$49.9549.95^[1]^[2]	64029

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World Series Baseball 2K3 is a baseball game which is part of the World Series Baseball series. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2003 exclusively in North America. Plans were put in place for a Nintendo GameCube version, but this version of the game was cancelled.^[3]

Production credits

BLUE SHIFT

Producer: Jason Armenise
Technical Director: John Brooks
Art Director: Dana Christianson
Program Manager: Son Ton
Assistant Producers: Neil Sorens, Tony Taylor
Senior Gameplay Programmer: Doug Snyder
Gameplay Programmers: Donald Lawton, Eric Liao, Tim Winnegar
Senior Shell Programmer: John Salwitz
Shell Programmers: Raymi Dyskant, Tom Thompson
Animation Programmer: Peter Yamamoto
Audio Programmer: John Novak
Senior 3D Graphics Programmer: Richard Geldreich
Technologists: Matthew Rice, Matthew Gilbert, David Goodenough, Aaron Kennington, Kyle Chuang
Lead Artist: Sean O'Hara
Artists: Louise Bell, James Lingo, Ed Pearson
Graphic Designer: Brian DeVerter
Operations Manager: Becky Liu
Information Technology: Michal Simek
Human Resources: Melissa Kamita
Special Thanks: Troy Skinner, Dennis Miller

EXILE Interactive

President: Dan Judge
Head of Operations: Jason Lawler
Associate Producer: Ryan Peterson
Art Director: Frank Belina
Head of Technology: Alex Pepper
Technical Art Lead: Glen Schulz
Visual Art Lead: Art Chalmers-We
Senior Artist: Tivadar Czondi
Artists: Rodney Lum, Kevin MacAdam, Vilmen Mendoza, Yvi Mendoza
Junior Artists: Kevin Gregorash, Bruce Morrison, Thoung (Toon) Tinh, Andrew Wood
Programmers: Emmanuel Borsboom, Cody Jones, Mike Krazanowski, David Richard
Additional Art: Dimensions Edge Studios Inc.
Characterstreet Animation Inc.: Craig Foster
Special thanks go to all the wives, girlfriends and families for their patience and understanding.

VISUAL CONCEPTS

Executive Producers: Greg Thomas, Scott Patterson
Project Manager: David Perkinson
Assistant Project Manager: Ed Brady
Dialog Recording, Editing and Mastering: J. Mateo Baker
Audio Director: Brian Luzietti
Sound Designer: Larry Peacock
Media Relations Specialist: Anthony Chau
Motion Capture: Rich Nelson, Gavin McCall, Anton Dawson
Player Rating and Stat Database: Matt Underwood
QA Manager: Chien Yu
QA Lead: Ben Bishop
QA Assistant Lead: Kurt Maffei
Mastenng and Release Specialist: Erik Andreassen
Quality Assurance: Matthew Alien, John Baker, David Bass, Jason Battle, Aaron Baxter, Brian Beavers, Chris Charles, Joseph Chasan, Tim Collins, John Crysdale, Stephen Drennan, Marion Dreo, Bryan Green, Chrislopher Gross, Justin Halpin, Jeremy Huddleston, Craig Kilcoyne, Brian Krawchuk, Erik Lampi, Ben LaneJason Lauborough, Robert Leach, Kai Ma, Chris Marquez, Wilson Meng, Robert Nelson, Damon Perdue, Michael Regan, Eli Robles, Haven Rocha, Nick Sanford, Jerson Sapida, Junior Sison, Randy Sison, Terry Tharp, Zach Timmerman, Alan Trammel, Tor Unsworth, Dustin Wright, Doneil Williams, Casey Yost
SpeclalThanks: Eric Apel, Jenn Baker, Matt Crysdale, Randy Hauser, Wayne Herman, Angela Hunter, Rob Jones, Chris Larson, Abe Navarro, Shawn Lee, Lowell Taub, Jeff Thomas, Raman Watson, Joel Wolfe, Richard Yee
Motion Capture Talent: Kevin Hodges, Cody McKay, Ryan Miller, Russ Ortiz, Chris Petersen, Bo Porter
Voice Over:
- Ted Robinson, play-by-play
- Rex Hudler, color commentary
- Bob Williams, public address announcer
- Peter Barto, umpire

SEGA OF AMERICA

Product Manager: Sam Hopkins
Sports Marketing Specialist: Dan Gallardo
Senior Product Manager: Stacey Kerr
Public Relations: Marc Franklin
Licensing Brad Schlachter: Shinobu Toyoda
Channel Marketing: Scott Lambrecht
Creative Services Project Manager: Matt Shell
Documentation Design: Miles Steuding
Director, Creative Services: Bob Schonfisch
Special Thanks: Richard White - MLBPA, John Olshan - MLBPA, Eric Rivera - MLBPA, Howard Smith - MLB Properties, Carolann Dunn - MLB Properties, Stanley Tarr MLB Properties, Michael Napolitano - MLB Properties, Greg Cesa - MLB Properties, Aimee Sorrin - MLB Properties, Rich Pilling - MLB Photos, Paul Cunningham - MLB Photos, Peter Moore, Chris Gilbert, Diana Zoller, Cindy Jenney, Maya Hermanson

DISNEY INTERACTIVE

Producer: Keith Hargrove
Assistant Producer: Eric Sorenson
Marketing Director: Bob Picunko
Marketing Manager: Stephanie Yoshimoto

ESPN, INC.

Coordinating Producer, MLB: TTm Scanian
Producer, Sunday Night Baseball: Phil Orlins
Graphics Artist: Scott Lodge
Associate Producer, Sunday Night Baseball: Chris Alexopouios
Associate Producer, Remote Graphics: Eric Mosley
Director, ESPN Enterprises Consumer & Media Products: Mary B. Moore
Special Thanks: Graham Hopper, George Bodenheimer, Dan Winters, Sanjeev Lamba, Todd Steckbeck, Steve Gilbert, Pam Weisberg, Tori Stevens

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: World Series Baseball 2K3/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

PlayStation 2 version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

GameNOW (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[4]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

93

^[5]

Play (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[6]

	86
Based on 3 reviews

World Series Baseball 2K3

PlayStation 2, US
Cover

Xbox version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

80

^[7]

Play (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[6]

	85
Based on 2 reviews

World Series Baseball 2K3

Xbox, US
Cover
Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	b16a499d
MD5	6c75f18a45a3be82afb77e42a45e62de
SHA-1	a309b22dddaa82bda7154e13c614758c1491f2f2

1,603,928,064

DVD-ROM (US)

SLUS-20611 (V1.01)

External links

World Series Baseball 2K3 on PlayStation.com: US
Nintendo catalogue pages: US (archive)
World Series Baseball 2K3 on Xbox.com: US (archive)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Press release: 2002-10-25: SEGA Sports World Series Baseball 2K3 On Deck for Spring 2003; Making Multiplatform Debut On PlayStation2 and Xbox
↑ http://xbox.com/en-US/worldseriesbaseball2k3/default.htm (Wayback Machine: 2003-10-05 01:29)
↑ http://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=949 (Wayback Machine: 2002-12-20 07:25)
↑ GameNOW, "May 2003" (US; 2003-0x-xx), page 49
↑ GamePro, "May 2003" (US; 2003-0x-xx), page 64
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Play, "April 2003" (US; 2003-xx-xx), page 72
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "April 2003" (US; 2003-0x-xx), page 132

World Series Baseball 2K3
	Main page \| Comparisons \| Magazine articles \| Reception No results

Games in the World Series Baseball Series
	World Series Baseball (1994) \| World Series Baseball '95 (1995) \| World Series Baseball '96 (1996) \| World Series Baseball 98 (1997)
	World Series Baseball (1993) \| World Series Baseball '95 (1994) \| Nomo's World Series Baseball (1995)
	World Series Baseball Starring Deion Sanders (1995)
	World Series Baseball (1995) \| World Series Baseball II (1996) \| World Series Baseball 98 (1997)
	World Series Baseball '96 (1996)
	World Series 99 (1999) \| World Series Baseball (2001)
	World Series Baseball 2K1 (2000) \| World Series Baseball 2K2 (2001)
	World Series Baseball (2002) \| World Series Baseball 2K3 (2003)
World Series Baseball related media
	Prima's Official Strategy Guide: World Series Baseball 2K1 (2000)

[Press_release:_2002-10-25:_SEGA_Sports_World_Series_Baseball_2K3_On_Deck_for_Spring_2003.3B_Making_Multiplatform_Debut_On_PlayStation2_and_Xbox-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Press release: 2002-10-25: SEGA Sports World Series Baseball 2K3 On Deck for Spring 2003; Making Multiplatform Debut On PlayStation2 and Xbox

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20031005012901.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fxbox.com.2Fen-US.2Fworldseriesbaseball2k3.2Fdefault.htm-2] ttp://xbox.com/en-US/worldseriesbaseball2k3/default.htm (Wayback Machine: 2003-10-05 01:29)

[http:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20021220072544.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.nintendo.com.2Fgames.2Fgamepage.2Fgamepage_main.jsp.3FgameId.3D949-3] ttp://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=949 (Wayback Machine: 2002-12-20 07:25)

[:File:GameNOW_US_19.pdf_p49-4] GameNOW, "May 2003" (US; 2003-0x-xx), page 49

[:File:GamePro_US_176.pdf_p64-5] GamePro, "May 2003" (US; 2003-0x-xx), page 64

[:File:Play_US_016.pdf_p72-6] 6.0 ^6.1 Play, "April 2003" (US; 2003-xx-xx), page 72

[:File:EGM_US_165.pdf_p132-7] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "April 2003" (US; 2003-0x-xx), page 132

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Games in the World Series Baseball Series
	World Series Baseball (1994) \| World Series Baseball '95 (1995) \| World Series Baseball '96 (1996) \| World Series Baseball 98 (1997)
	World Series Baseball (1993) \| World Series Baseball '95 (1994) \| Nomo's World Series Baseball (1995)
	World Series Baseball Starring Deion Sanders (1995)
	World Series Baseball (1995) \| World Series Baseball II (1996) \| World Series Baseball 98 (1997)
	World Series Baseball '96 (1996)
	World Series 99 (1999) \| World Series Baseball (2001)
	World Series Baseball 2K1 (2000) \| World Series Baseball 2K2 (2001)
	World Series Baseball (2002) \| World Series Baseball 2K3 (2003)
World Series Baseball related media
	Prima's Official Strategy Guide: World Series Baseball 2K1 (2000)

World Series Baseball 2K3

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Contents

Production credits

Magazine articles

Physical scans

PlayStation 2 version

Xbox version

Technical information

ROM dump status

External links

References