AFL Premiership 2005

• Title — AFL Premiership 2005 • Developer — IR Gurus • Publisher — Sony Computer Entertainment (PS2) THQ (Windows, Xbox) • Series — AFL • Released — 22 September 2005 • Genre — Sports • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Engine — RenderWare • Platforms — * PlayStation 2 • Xbox • Microsoft Windows

The game features two modes: Season mode, where the player selects one of the 16 teams to play in the 2005 AFL season, and Career Mode, which includes 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. The company changed the annual numbering system for titles with the AFL Live Premiership Edition, but this edition would have been AFL Live 2006. AFL Premiership 2005 supports online multiplayer. On the Xbox port, Xbox Live was available to players until 15 April 2010. The game is now playable online again on the replacement Xbox Live servers called Insignia.

The game includes all 16 teams, more than 600 AFL players with updated stats and eight major stadiums which include: • New South Wales New South Wales: • SCG (Sydney) • Telstra Stadium (Homebush Bay) • Queensland Queensland: • Gabba (Brisbane) • South Australia South Australia: • AAMI Stadium (Adelaide) • Victoria Victoria: • MCG (Melbourne) • Telstra Dome (Docklands) • Skilled Stadium (Geelong) • Western Australia Western Australia: • Subiaco Oval (Perth)

When Acclaim shut down its operations in Australia, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEE) took over the publishing and distributing rights to the game. Originally it was only on the PlayStation 2. However, THQ released an Xbox and Microsoft Windows version of the game. THQ only called the game AFL Premiumship. The game is only available in Australia.