AFL Premiership 2005 is a simulation game for PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...

 based on the AFL. It is the ninth game in the AFL video game series

AFL (video game series)

The AFL video game series is a series of Australian rules football video games based on the AFL. Released originally by Beam Software, it has since been developed by several other game developers....

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Gameplay

The game includes, season mode, where the player can select to play as one of the 16 teams to play in the 2005 AFL season. Career mode", which lets the player play in the pre-season, home and away season, and finals. There is also, player trading, National AFL Draft and player development. AFL Tribunal is also used with in-game reports and suspensions.

Stadiums and features

The game includes all 16 teams, more than 600 AFL players with updated stats and eight major stadiums which include:
  New South Wales:

• SCG
  Sydney Cricket Ground
  The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...
  
   (Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
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• Telstra Stadium (Homebush)

  Queensland:

• Gabba (Brisbane
  Brisbane
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  )

  South Australia:

• AAMI Stadium
  AAMI Stadium
  Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...
  
   (Adelaide
  Adelaide
  Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
  
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  Victoria:

• MCG
  Melbourne Cricket Ground
  The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...
  
   (Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
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• Telstra Dome
  Telstra Dome
  Docklands Stadium is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...
  
   (Docklands)
• Skilled Stadium (Geelong)

  Western Australia:

• Subiaco Oval
  Subiaco Oval
  Subiaco Oval , known colloquially as Subi, is the highest capacity sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia...
  
   (Perth
  Perth, Western Australia
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Publisher

When Acclaim

Acclaim Entertainment

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 shut down its operations in Australia, Sony Computer Entertainment

Sony Computer Entertainment

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 (SCEE) took over the publishing and distributing rights to the game. Originally it was only on the PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...

. However, THQ

THQ Studio Australia

THQ Studio Australia was one of the subsidiaries of electronic game publisher THQ. Based in Brisbane Australia, the studio have developed titles for last and current generation games consoles and managed the development of hand held versions of their games utilizing smaller local and interstate...

 released a Xbox

Xbox

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 and Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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version of the game. The game is only available in Australia.

Critical reception

Some game critics criticize the release time of the game (due to being released so late in the year). The game was released in September 2005, as the premiership season was coming to a close. Though the game did sell very well following the AFL Grand final, some felt it would have benefited more if the release was delayed until the start of the 2006 season, around March 2006.