2K Sports, Konami Team Up For Kawaii Major League Baseball

2K Sports announced today that they would bring Konami's Power Pro Baseball series to the US for the first time this fall, adding in adorable caricatured versions of each and every Major League Baseball player. The game will be available for PlayStation 2 and Wii.

The long-running series popular Success Mode, which combines role-playing game elements with baseball scenarios, will appear in the US version, now dressed up with MLB trappings:

This story-based mode puts the user in the role of a college baseball player with the goal of becoming a Major League player – gamers will train the player in numerous games while dealing with real-world situations of academics, part-time jobs, and other social situations.