Because of Electronic Arts' loss of the Major League Baseball (MLB) license to Take Two Interactive in 2005, which held the exclusive MLB license until 2014,[2] the publishers decided to transition the MVP series to feature NCAA baseball, joining the publisher's NCAA football and basketball lines.

The player can set the distance and height of the walls, as well as the surrounding backdrop, the field surface, and the size of foul territory.

This is a wonderfully ingenious way to increase the sense that you are experiencing an actual baseball game, and to keep sports aficionados satisfied".

[22] Maxim, on the other hand, gave it a score of seven out of ten and stated that "after nine innings, it's basically the same game, including easy to master controls that'll finally allow you to be big man on campus.

[23] USA Today similarly gave it seven stars out of ten and said that the game "shows promise for the genre with its innovative take on batting.