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# 4 MVP Baseball 2005
2005
EA
PS2/XBOX 
Many people forget just how bad EA was at baseball on consoles from the mid nineties until around 1993. The "Triple Play" series was an arcadey mess that failed to attract much of an audience. However, the "MVP" series came in and made us forget how bad things were.
MVP 2005 was the third in the series, but it was the most refined and most solid of the games. You want it, you got it. The minors, Hitters Eye, pitch meters, realistically modeled throwing meters, full season, full minors, full management, advanced baserunning controls. You name it, it was in the game. But more than anything, the game had realism... something sorely missing from the hardball games up to that point. Sadly, 2K's deal with made it so the game had to become a college baseball game, and that pretty much killed it. Meanwhile, 2K's baseball game is still trying to catch up to the features and realism that MVP 2005 had. MVP 2005's influence can easily be seen on Sony's MLB "The Show" series, which implemented jsut about everything thant made MVP 2005 great... so in that sense the MVP ideas and depth live on with MLB The Show... which is a credit to Sony for realizing just how well made MVP 2005 was.
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