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List Price: $19.99
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Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633148916
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Feature: Enhanced Big Play controls - Make your players stretch and dive, beat pickoff throws and more
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Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Model: 14633148916
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: GameCube
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 2005-02-23
Studio: Electronic Arts
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Features
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Enhanced Big Play controls - Make your players stretch and dive, beat pickoff throws and more
Precision pitching lets you paint the corners, or own the plate by moving in the batter's box
Become an Owner and control every aspect of your team's lineup, building players during Spring Training and other mini-games
New tools for creating your own ballpark - Build a pitcher's paradise or a hitter's dream
Advanced Single-A squads and new stadiums to expand the Minor Leagues
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Summary: Pointless addition of minor leagues
Comment: I am completely confused as to all the praise this game received. Everyone has been raving about the "owner/dynasty" modes as being so deep and realistic. Basically, what the game has is every major league team plus AAA, AA, and A teams also included. This sounds great when you consider there is a disabled list, contract negotiations, and personalities to deal with. The problem, and IMO, it's a game breaking problem.....they don't have any waivers, options, or call-up send-down rules. I am baffled that people can find this to be a realistic simulation of running a baseball team. You can send players down to the minors one day then bring them back up the next. Essentially, you have access to a full 25 man roster on all four teams, giving you 100 players to use EVERYDAY. That is insanely stupid. Forget about a five man rotation folks, say hello to a forty man rotation. EA Sports took the time to add all of these minor league affiliates and didn't spend any time adding basic and necessary rules.
To say I'm being nit picky is really turning a blind eye here. At the very least they could have added one realistic rule to fix this problem. Even if you want to skip waivers and options, they could have made you keep players in the minors for at least two weeks after being sent down (a real MLB rule). That would prevent havig complete access to your minors everyday. Very simple, yet EA didn't bother with it. Who cares about the gameplay when the owner/dynasty modes are 100% unrealistic and stupid. Big deal, they have a disabled list. Where is the strategy in player movement when you have access to four full teams??? OOTP for me I guess.....
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Summary: MVP Baseball 2005 represents a significant improvement on its predecessor, and it's a fantastic baseball game overall.
Comment: Last years MVP Baseball 2004 was praised for many reasons but had one significant flaw. The dynasty mode in MVP Baseball 2004 had a nasty bug that made it impossible for computer-generated players to evolve into A-list superstars unless you actually played at least 95 percent of your team's games. This is fixed in the 2005 release. The dyanasty/franchise mode goes for 120 years and there is a whole lot you can do in it and it is probably the best multiseason/franchise mode in any baseball game ever.
Along with the Dynasty mode is the owner mode which tracks stats for 30 years and also includes you having to buy concessions and stores and setting the pricing for your shops and you can make your own stadium with all the funds you make and you can upgrade the capacity, the HR celebrations, the adverts on the walls, and all the nesscary fundamentals including adding things like an arcade, or a baseball history museum, or lots of other things that make for a very deep mode that can keep you busy for a long time.
The game also includes fun pitching batting minigames. And a home run showdown to see who can get the most amount of feet the fastest but gone from MVP Baseball 2004 is the pitcher showdown which was a fun opposite of the home run showdown when you had to see who could get the most strikeouts the fastest.
Overall,MVP Baseball 2005 represents a significant improvement on its predecessor, and it's a fantastic baseball game overall. If you are looking to buy one baseball game until EA gets it's MLB Lisence in 2012, this is the one to get.
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Summary: Fun, but Confusing
Comment: With limited baseball titles for gamecube, mvp 2005 is pretty much the only practical choice. That being said, its a real good game. Graphics are solid, sound is good. But gameplay is confusing. For example, I was the Phillies playing the Nationals. The Nats have a pretty good batting lineup, wouldnt you say? Guys like Alfonso Soriano, Jose Guillen,Jose Vidro (that might be stretchin it). But probably the Nationals three best power hitters right? Well i was playing them and those three guys go maybe about 7 innings without even a hit. At least 1 of them could get on base once dont you think? But then the most odd part comes. The Nats have some new power sluggers in Marlon Byrd, Brian Schneider, Ryan Church, and Jamey Carroll. "Who?" most of you probably ask. Yeah. Between the four of them 6 home runs, each player with one, and 14 base hits. I mean if guys are gonna have fire games, let it be a star like Soriano or Guillen but not guys like Schneider and Carroll. Even if one had a hot game thats understandable, but 4 basement players at the same time? I dont think so. Guys like Byrd and Church do not even hit for power, they hit for average, and sometimes they cant even do that. So thats somewhat confusing. The Nats scored 10 runs against me, but luckily i was on fire too, but with good players like Ryan Howard, Pat Burrell, Chase Utley, and Jimmy Rollins. I won 12-10, but that still is somewhat confusing to me. And this is just one instance, there have been many times this has happend. Maybe the ratings are switched?
MVP is still a goodm game, especially if you have Gamecube, its the only choice. The only other bummer about it is that many players are left out of the game (i.e. Tdahito Iguchi, Jonathan Papelbon, Bobby Jenks, Andy Marte, Conor Jackson, Jeff Francouer, Felix Pie, Edwin Encarnacion, Huston Street, Chien-Ming Wang, Tony Batista, Ervin Santana, Ezequiel Astacio, Wandy Rodriguez, Felix Hernandez, Delmon Young, Prince Fielder, Matt Cain, Ryan Zimmerman, Zach Duke, just to name a few. and yes I understand that when this game came out they may have been in the Minor Leagues, but then why dont they have them on the AAA or AA teams? But anyways fun game.
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Summary: MVP Baseball 2004
Comment: The game is fun to play but the pitch location is a little awkward (it's difficult to pick location without tipping to the batter).
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Summary: cool game
Comment: i saw this review and the kid said that jayson werth jumped like 10 feet to rob a hm. the thing is, jayson is really tall and he can probably jump 10 feet. if he can dunk, he can jump 10 feet
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