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- Platform: PlayStation2
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Cricket has the uncanny ability of making time pass slowly. Here, for those who wish to re-invest that warped time wisely, EA bowls several cricket events: the World Cup appears alongside two domestic Australian cup competitions, numerous international tours, one-day tests, and the English County Championships. There's something for fans of every leaning. The action is delivered with aplomb. Sharp visuals, combined with TV-style camera angles and live commentary from Messrs Benaud and Maxwell (the modern-day voices of televised cricket), complete what is the definitive video game for cricket fans. --Jonti Davies
Manufacturer's Description
With new motion capture and a new development platform, not to mention the inclusion of form and injury, gameplay is more true to life than ever before. And for the cricketing buff there's no end to the detail. A large variety of statistical graphs will be available including run rate and wagon wheel graphs, as well as a huge amount of statistical data on every player that tracks over the course of a tournament. The game revolves around a full TV style presentation including a full action replay mode, third umpire, animated ducks, TV style overlays, field position editor and much more. The field position editor allows for auto or manual fielding.
Over 75 stadia are modeled from all over the world, including Lords in England, Calcutta, Melbourne, Auckland, Cape Town, Barbados and Lahore; the detail in the stadia is amazing. Lighting and shadows of the highest grade together with real time weather all add to the authenticity of the playing experience.
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Negatives:
- Clumsy graphics, comparable to Rugby 2004
- Some unrealistic animations, especially amongst close fielders.
- Long loading times
- Massive memory card requirement(nearly 4mb)
- Terrible commentary
Positives
- The disciplines required to be successful here are similar to real cricket. eg. When bowling, if you put the ball in the right place again and again, you're more likely to tempt a nick to slips.
- The performamce of the batsman is now contributed to by a confidence meter. He's more likely to be successful with attacking shots if he's played himself in, and his confidence is high.
- Wide range of modes.....I'm in the middle of a carribean tour at the moment, but for a bit of light releif, I might play a quick C & G Trophy session to practice my six hitting!
Without doubt, this is the best cricket game on the market, and would have merited 5 stars if gameplay was the only measure.
Wholeheartedly recommended for cricket fans, be it for the 10+ match Ashes tour, or the 10 over per side multiplayer blast.
Anyway, the new features on it are full English and Australian, County and State teams, which you can play full seasons in, for instance thats the frizzell county championship (4 day matches) the Cheltnham and Gloucester cup (50 over matches) and the Nation league (45 over matches) and then the Aussie version. There are also on the now expected from sport game updates, much improved graphics and I was glad, and I'm sure many others will be that in this game, unlike cricket 2002, they don't run like spackers!!!
There is now a game mode called foreign tour, which is rather self explainatery, but if you win win the series and tour matches, you win the trophey which subsequently is placed in your trophy cabinet. Now after you hit a four or six, you will get a good action reply as the shots are fantasticly real.
The only negative I can find is that the "intellegent" commentry wears off after a while and it get a tad boring, but you can expect that I suppose.
If you have the original this is a must-buy, but still goood to people who haven't but, if you hate cricket, stay away, far away from this!
Please can EA Sports take note of all the votes (helpful or not) and pull their finger out of the noses and do an xbox... Read more
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