Sega, Acclaim, and 3DO were making better products across all platforms - MVP Baseball 2003 is EA Sports' response to these pressures.
EA Sports finally took notice and pulled the plug on the series and vowed a new game that would attempt to address the concerns and criticisms of baseball gaming fans. Most serious baseball fans had nothing good to say about Triple Play and it quickly became the laughingstock among hardcore PC baseball fans. Cool elements needed to be added to an otherwise, such as the ability to morph players into extremely tall humans, explosive animations and sound effects, and the ability to hit massive homeruns at will. The series' basic premise was that baseball only as a sport wasn't 'fun' enough.
The Triple Play series seemed to be stuck in EA Sports' less-than-stellar publishing past. Madden Football, the F1 series, among others made noticeable improvements in the right direction in terms of realism.
MVP Baseball 2003 (PC) Review Publisher: EA SportsĮA Sports has come a long way from its arcade gaming roots.
