MLB Power Pros 2008 is a baseball simulation game for the Nintendo DS that offers a unique blend of real MLB teams and players depicted as stylized anime characters. Players can engage in various modes, including Season, Multiplayer, and Exhibition, while also experiencing a 20-year story mode that allows character creation and progression from the minors to the majors. The game includes a Dynasty mode, enabling management of a team and player roster strategies.
MLB Power Pros is a different take on the MLB license. While the player has the ability to play as authentic players on actual MLB teams, the players are represented by anime characters, with large heads, feet and hands with no arms and legs. The game has been a mainstay in Japan for the last 15 years.
Power Pros does feature options from other real-time games such as Season, Multiplayer and Exhibition modes, it also has a story based mode where the player can create their own character and play up to 20 years, doing activities such as earning the right to move from the minors to the majors, landing big contracts, as well as buying houses and cars, make friends on and off the field, as well as start hobbies and make donations to charities to draw attention to the player.
It also features a Dynasty mode where the player can run a MLB team, trading and releasing with a roster of 40 men and change formations on defense and offense as well as change a pitchers ball speed.