This year's installment now includes single-A ball clubs as well, giving each MLB team three levels of minor league farm clubs. Last year's game was the first to include authentic minor league teams and actual minor league players by including double-A and triple-A-level farm teams. Like every other baseball video game, MVP Baseball 2005 includes all 30 official Major League Baseball teams and stadiums, as well as the more than 1,000 individual players that populate each team. MVP Baseball 2005 is easy to play, despite the sim-style controls and numerous franchise options. Meanwhile, some upgrades are downright subtle, like all the graphical tweaks and extra player animations that ultimately add up to help this latest game look and feel even more realistic than last year's. Other upgrades are minor, such as the optional hitter's eye, batter's box, and manager tirade features. Some of these upgrades are significant, such as the addition of an ownership-based franchise mode and the inclusion of single-A minor league teams, not to mention the ability to finally be able to set up custom tournaments in the online mode (in the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions). EA Sports has simply taken last year's game, improved it in myriad ways, and then tacked on a few new features to make the end result that much more appealing. MVP Baseball 2005 doesn't try to reinvent the wheel.