January 18, 2006
PING! EA’s MVP 06
NCAA BASEBALL SHIPS TO STORES TODAY
EA’s Newest Baseball Game
Franchise Heads Out on the “Road to Omaha”
Electronic Arts
(NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that MVP™
06 NCAA® Baseball, the first-ever college baseball videogame, has
shipped to retailers under the EA SPORTS™ brand. Produced by EA
Canada in Vancouver, B.C., MVP 06 NCAA
Baseball is the latest offering from the makers of the critically
acclaimed MVP Baseball™ franchise and celebrates everything that makes
NCAA® baseball unique – aluminum bats, dugout clearing homeruns,
relentless hustle and stadiums filled with passionate fans and school spirit.
From the same
developers that have made the MVP franchise a hit,
MVP 06 NCAA Baseball has an
all-new Load and Fire Batting system that intuitively emulates stepping up to
the plate. The game is the first EA SPORTS game to implement ESPN real-time
features including an ESPN ticker and live ESPN Sportscenter radio updates.
With 128 of the nation’s top teams, 19 authentic stadiums and a deep
college-specific Dynasty Mode™, users can now slug it out on the “Road to
Omaha®” with baseball’s brightest young stars.
“Playing to earn
a National Championship for the University of Texas was one of the greatest
moments of my life; Needless to say, I’m still really nostalgic about it and
this is a great way for me to re-live it again and again,” said David Maroul,
2005 College World Series MVP and MVP 06
NCAA Baseball Cover Athlete. “I’ve been waiting for a game like
this to come out for a long time. I just can’t believe how realistic the game
is.”
Complete with an
engaging visual presentation and ESPN’s Mike Patrick and former Stanford
All-American Kyle Peterson calling the action,
MVP 06 NCAA Baseball also features
an all-new Custom Ballpark feature, a rich Create-a-Player option and new
online* features for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and Xbox
Live®.
MVP 06 NCAA Baseball,
which joins NCAA® Football and
NCAA® March Madness® in the EA
SPORTS™ family of popular NCAA-licensed properties, is
available on the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox®
video game system from Microsoft. The game is rated "E" (Everyone) by
the ESRB with a MSRP of $29.99.The official game website is
www.mvp06ncaabaseball.com.
