MVP Baseball 2005: The Greatest Baseball Video Game of All-Time

In 2005, EA Sports released MVP Baseball 2005 for the Original Xbox, Playstation 2, PC and the Nintendo GameCube. It is one of the few video games to get a perfect score on every video game console that was available to the general public at that time because the game was innovative. For example, not only could you create your own ballpark, but the game also had an incredible soundtrack (example: Tessie by the Dropkick Murphys). Unfortunately, there would be no sequel to the greatest baseball game of all time because 2K Sports (The makers of the 2K baseball series) decided to buy the rights to MLB as retaliation to EA Sports getting exclusive rights to the NFL for their Madden series. The problem with this was that 2K makes terrible baseball games & EA makes terrible football games. Conversely, 2K made a great NFL game called NFL 2K5, and EA made an incredible MLB game in MVP Baseball 2005. So really, this exclusive rights stuff didn't help either company. But anyways, MVP Baseball still lives on because a dedicated group of computer nerds (like me) found a loophole through this exclusive rights nonsense. Just in case you don't know, the PC edition of MVP Baseball 2005 can be hacked and modified to your liking. For example, if you want to play as the 2015 Chicago Cubs, you can download a file from a website called MVP Mods and you can play as the 2015 Chicago Cubs. It's a tad bit illegal, because it voids your warranty, but it's worth it. In fact, MVP Mods recently released a 10th Anniversary edition of MVP Baseball 2005, cleverly titled MVP 15. Again, it's a tad bit illegal... or so I thought because, believe it or not, EA has approved what MVP Mods has done. So, maybe, just maybe, there will be an EA Major League Baseball game in the future, especially considering the FIFA scandals and the fact that EA removed themselves from making any soccer game for the foreseeable future. They need to cash in on what 2K failed to do: Make the perfect baseball game.