Excerpt: Picking a Sports title that you will enjoy is a tough one. The genre is plagued with garbage, and you never really know if you’ll like it unless you play it.
Excerpt: Do not buy this game if you respect yourself and the game of baseball. Assuming you have played MVP Baseball 2004 for consoles and PC, the PSP version of MVP is an exact...
Excerpt: , released just a few months ago. This year's console innovations like the "Batter's Eye", yellow zones on the pitch meter, addictive minigames, and arguing calls are all...
Summary: Small ball is back en vogue, and it seems the video-game world is following suit. So ditch your bulky console baseball and head out to the diamond for some fun with EA's...
Pros: Not much of a downgrade in terms of options, cutscenes, and gameplay as compared to MVP 2005 for the PS2.
Cons: Animations bog the game down; glitches and bugs occasionally crop up; no online option.
Conclusion: EA is kind of like the straight A student in a family. Everyone loves them when they do good, but they're also especially hard on them when they mess up.
Summary: MVP Baseball for the PSP is both rough around the edges and missing some of the features that made the console versions so appealing.
Pros: Authentic pace and plays, Huge variety of different play animations, You can control literally everything, Nonstop play-by-play, Loads of unlockable jerseys and players.
Cons: Choppy animation, No franchise or online modes, Game stalls briefly during cutaways, Low poly count compared to PS2 version.
Conclusion: Graphically this game is not all that spectacular either, and that is mainly due to the poor looking character models that I thought were some of the worst I had seen on