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8.1 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: EA Canada

Genre(s): Sports, Baseball

Players: 4

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: May 18, 2005

Summary

Dominate from Wire to Wire: Take your team all the way from opening day to the World Series in Season mode. Wireless Head-to-Head Gameplay: Challenge friends sitting next to you or across the room to an Exhibition Game, Homerun Shootout, or Pitcher Showdown. Party Play: Four players can compete in Batting and Pitching mini-games using one PSP unit. EA Pocket Trax: This new feature designed for PSP allows you to listen and watch music content via this built in player. [Electronic Arts]

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What The Critics Said

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Play Magazine

Unfortunately, there isn't a Franchise mode in MVP, but there is a great season mode, as well as an addictive Homerun Showdown. [May 2005, p.71]

Gaming Age

Gameplay definitely takes some getting use to, due to the design of the PSP.

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GameZone

Sure you’ll miss the features found on the bigger boys (Owner Mode or even Spring Training Mode) but there’s just no denying how good this game feels in your hands.

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GameSpot

There isn't another baseball game on the system that feels this authentic or puts so many aspects under the player's control.

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PSX Extreme

MVP’s a solid game that does a nice impersonation of a PS2 title, but its got a number of flaws and missing features that make 989’s "MLB," not MVP, the baseball game to have for the PSP this year.

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PSM Magazine

Simply a solid hit rather than the round-tripper it could've been. [Aug 2005, p.84]

IGN

Next time we want better looking characters, models, more detail in the stadiums, no black-out screens, less glitches and online gameplay. They're completely capable of pulling it off, which makes their shortcoming here all the more disappointing.

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Game Chronicles

MVP Baseball has all the makings of a great game but it lacks the polish and refinement and just has too many glitches to make a wholehearted recommendation. There’s always next season.

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Stuff

Sporting bigger loads than John Holmes (almost all of EA's PSP titles are plagued with long load times), this miniature version of the MVP franchise seems to be trying a little too hard to look good.

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Game Informer

This game is more ambitious than Sony's PSP baseball title, but MVP's gameplay hiccups may leave you looking elsewhere. [July 2005, p.126]

DarkStation

Those expecting a full-on console version on the handheld will be disappointed, as EA serves a stripped-down game plagued with needlessly frustrating controls.

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Next Level Gaming

Same old flawed fielding and the same old cheesy play against the computer. Couple that with some problems in the graphic department that actually affect the gameplay, and not having up-to-date rosters makes this not the Baseball game for you.

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Worth Playing

EA has some great ideas that are just poorly implemented, and it would've been nice to see them rework it for next year.

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GameSpy

If this title had come out before the console version, I'm sure we'd have been amazed by its accomplishments, rather than puzzled by its mistakes.

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Official U.S. Playstation Magazine

A castrated version of its console counterpart. [Aug 2005, p.89]

GamerFeed

If EA Sports had worked harder to include most of the stuff from the console game, they could've had a winner with MVP Baseball. But it's not to be.

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Cheat Code Central

It will definitely pass the time while taking the subway to and from work but at the end of the day, you'll come home, turn off the PSP and fire up the console version which is a homerun compared to this ballwalker.

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Game Revolution

Franchise and online options have been left out, the batting system is mindless and the graphics are really choppy. In a way, this game’s poor performance actually benefits you, the consumer, because you should know without any doubt that this is not the baseball game you want for your PSP.

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Modojo

Going out with a bang for them has turned into sneaking out with a whimper. Not exactly my idea of the ol' ball game.

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Operation Sports

A sloppy, rushed port. The controls don't translate well, the player models are well below the capabilities of the PSP, and the homer-happy gameplay is a complete break from the console experience.

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G4 TV

One look at the out-of-date rosters (frozen in time at the original release date) will show you how little attention was paid to the development of this game.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.1 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jeremy mc gave it an8:
The game is awsome and by far the best I have bought for my psp. However, there is nothing worse than getting into the top of the ninth, with a 1 run lead and 1 out away from a big winand Bam! the game freezes. I have had it happen too many times to count. I had to get used to waiting for the scrren to flash, which signals me that the game is done with the substitution. Then proceed with the game play. I shoudn't have to spend my time trying to read the screen so I don't lose my 3 homerun performance. Other than that, I love this game.

Minf gave it a10:
This is way better than MLB. Besides you can't trust MLB look at Gretzky NHL. It's not all there! This game is so sweet. Buy it!!!!

Nick gave it a10:
Awsome!

Tommy T. gave it a3:
I rented MLB while waiting on MVP to come out. I wasted my time. MVP's graphics remind me of PS1and trying to play on any level besides rookie is nearly impossible. During the homerun derby you have to swing immediately after the pitcher releases the ball. Pathetic game and way below EA standards. On the other hand I was pleasantly surprised by MLB by 989. This game runs incredibly smooth and the graphics are excellent. Very realistic with little waiting time between pitches and outs. I used to be a big 989 fan during the PS1 days but EA stole the show. 989 has made me a fan all over again.

Robert B. gave it a3:
Gameplay is ok. I do have a major problem like Marc S. where substitutions lock up the PSP. This sucks especially when you are at the bottom of the 9th... I have a habit of saving the game. I know that the game can't be as good as the PS2 version because of storage, BUT, it would;ve been nice to have a reason to rotate your players. There is no stamina for your team so you can always use the same people without their performance suffering...

Marc S. gave it a1:
This game is great fun when it works, and were it not for the bug described below, I'd give it an 8. The first copy I had worked great for about an hour, then started locking up the system whenever the CPU made a substitution. Now my second copy has started locking up when substitutions are made after about 3 hours of gameplay. This is the first EA Sports title I've ever bought, and it'll probably be the last. For a company to charge $50 for a piece of software with obvious bugs like this is unforgivable. Kiss my butt, EA sports. I'll be dropping this turd of a game off at your headquarters tomorrow and asking for my money back from you personally, since the store I bought it from won't give refunds on open software.

Chuck E. gave it a10:
Game is great and graphics are the best this game rocks.

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