MLB Slugfest 2006 is an arcade style baseball video game released for the Sony PlayStation 2 in the United States and it belongs to the Sports genre specifically the Baseball subgenre. The game was added to the website iOctavio.com on June 8 2006. In this title the developers pushed the sport to an extreme larger than life experience featuring towering home runs hard tags circus catches home plate collisions and outrageous abilities such as turbo pitching throwing bean balls on fire fielding and base running and the ability to break up double plays by sliding in spikes high. Players can choose from several game modes including Season Playoff and Challenge and for the first time in the Slugfest series a Create A Player feature lets you build your ultimate slugger or flame throwing pitcher. The game emphasizes fast paced action over realistic simulation delivering an aggressive and entertaining baseball experience.