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Ashes Cricket 09

by Codemasters Limited
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3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)

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  • PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
  • Media: Video Game

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Product Features

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
  • Enhanced bowling experience:
  • Make decisions as the bowler does with an intuitive, interactive bowling control scheme
  • Dynamic and intuitive batting:
  • Feel more in control of the ball than ever before, with greater coverage and shot choice
  • Official Hawk-Eye Tracking:
  • Official Hawk-Eye visualisations, as seen on TV
  • Cricket Legends Mode:
  • Learn how to master the disciplines of batting, bowling and fielding with coaching from Sir Ian Botham and Shane Warne
  • Play in stadiums from around the world:
  • Eighteen of the world's most recognisable stadia recreate geographic conditions and climates, as well as true-to-life crowd noise and atmosphere. Expect swing in England, bounce in Australia and extra turn in India
  • Online Play:
  • Full online multiplayer gaming through PlayStation Network.
  • Single and Multiplayer Modes:
  • Two player Co-op play, with up to four player vs matches.

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Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
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  • ASIN: B002BDTXHU
  • Item Weight: 118 g
  • Release Date: 7 Aug 2009
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 416 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

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Product Description

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Manufacturer's Description

Bringing you closer to the action than ever before with the officially licensed teams, players and stadia of the 2009 npower Ashes Series!

The game will provide you with the most authentic Ashes experience possible without having to don your white.

Delivering all the exciting, athletic, skilful and technical elements of the sport, the game’s comprehensive ‘Ashes’ mode will feature all five Tests played out at carefully detailed recreations of each authentic venue.

Featuring twelve Test playing nations and eighteen stadia from around the world, Ashes Cricket 2009 is the most comprehensive cricket video game ever.

Experience the whole gamut of the world of cricket from the iconic Ashes series, Test matches, ODIs and 20 over games. The kits, the pacing, the atmosphere and the players all change depending upon your game mode.

Product Description


The game will provide you with the most authentic Ashes experience possible without having to don your white.

Delivering all the exciting, athletic, skilful and technical elements of the sport, the games comprehensive Ashes mode will feature all five Tests played out at carefully detailed recreations of each authentic venue.

Featuring twelve Test playing nations and eighteen stadia from around the world, Ashes Cricket 2009 is the most comprehensive cricket video game ever.

Experience the whole gamut of the world of cricket from the iconic Ashes series, Test matches, ODIs and 20 over games. The kits, the pacing, the atmosphere and the players all change depending upon your game mode.

  • Enhanced bowling experience:
  • Make decisions as the bowler does with an intuitive, interactive bowling control scheme
  • Dynamic and intuitive batting:
  • Feel more in control of the ball than ever before, with greater coverage and shot choice
  • Official Hawk-Eye Tracking:
  • Official Hawk-Eye visualisations, as seen on TV
  • Cricket Legends Mode:
  • Learn how to master the disciplines of batting, bowling and fielding with coaching from Sir Ian Botham and Shane Warne
  • Play in stadiums from around the world:
  • Eighteen of the world's most recognisable stadia recreate geographic conditions and climates, as well as true-to-life crowd noise and atmosphere. Expect swing in England, bounce in Australia and extra turn in India
  • Online Play:
  • Full online multiplayer gaming through PlayStation Network.
  • Single and Multiplayer Modes:
  • Two player Co-op play, with up to four player vs matches.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A cricket game that promises so much and delivers so little, 11 Aug 2009
By Dave (South Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 
This game is disappointing and at some points becomes unplayable. I am a massive cricket fan and if the game was half way decent I would be raving about it, but it just isn't good enough.

The batting, although seemingly good on the surface, lacks the depth and realism required for a test match and has lost some of the enjoyment of a 20/20 slog. There are some good ideas, like able to specify a front foot or back shot, yet the implementation has been poor. You definetly get the feeling that none of the developers have ever picked up a cricket bat.

The bowling again has some good ideas, the contrast between good and bad bowlers is greater and there are more bowling options, yet playing against the computer you have to bowl a ridicolously full line or a high bouncer to avoid being smacked for 4 or 6. I found my first computer opponent 170/5 after 15 overs of the first day of a test match, not too realistic.

Then there are the graphics, these are just poor, players look like a twisted caricature of themselves, with heads that are oversized for some reason. Then there are the bowling and batting animations, which are laughable, the bowlers run like they have a coat hanger stuck in their jackets and their action suggests there is some kind of trampoline hidden the pitch.

While codemasters say it is a revamped engine since Brian Lara '07, I don't believe them as the same naff animations and annoying run-outs still exist.

The only redeeming feature of this game is when your mate picks up the joypad as at least you know that he will try and play the game properly rather than the AI's feeble attempt.

All in all, compared to the modern sport franchise games from EA (FIFA, Madden, Tiger Woods etc), this falls way short on playability, graphics and general enjoyment. The game is not realistic enought to play a test match and too annoying/unenjoyable to play a twenty20 match. At least on Brian Lara you could have a slog!

So next time Codemasters, go out and actually play and understand the game before trying to emulate it!

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Have the makers of this game actually ever played cricket, 9 Aug 2009
By Mr. C. K. Hill "chizzckh" (Cambridge) - See all my reviews
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Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 
This is my second review as I wanted to change my original score from 2 stars to 1. This time to simplify things I am going to break it down to simple good and bad points.

Good points:

1) Er its a new cricket game
2) Its on the Next Gen Console
3) mmm Struggling now, no cant think of anything more.

Bad Points:

1) Bad Graphics and generally NOT not anywhere near next gen.
2) The commentry sounds like they have played this game to much.
3) Completely unbalanced batting CPU A.I, they play everything like its a 20/20...test and 50 over
4) Because of point 3, no point playing test matches unless you want to have a low quality test nation bash you about at 10 an over in test cricket.
5) Only England and Australia have correct names, the rest of the nations have no correct details at all.
6) Sadly the England and Australia teams although by name are correct they look very little like their true life doubles, and even more funny is the that Bowlers like Anderson only manage to bowl around 70 mph so not accurate me thinks?
7) Bowling because of the extreme aggressive CPU batsman is no fun, no feel that you are bowling at anything but a computer who holds all the cards.
8) Annoying run outs, most of the wickets taken against the CPU is down to run outs for no reason.
9) Equally when its your turn to bat you can hit the bowlers out the park easily..10 - 20 an over in a test.
10) No long term challenge, game modes are the Ashes (obviously) but after playing 10 minutes you wont want too play that, 50 over and 20 over you can only play from QTR finals in a made up tournament. No World Cup, County matches or test series..tours etc etc
11) No stats can be carried from match to match, cricket is all about stats so why did they leave this out..DOH??
12) You dont care about the pitch as it their is no obvious change to what you bowl as it all looks gun barrel straight, if you manage too carry on playing this to bat two innnings each it will all be over in two days because of the stupid batting A.I.
13) God awful catching system, has no pattern and you spend 99% of the time dropping everything just to make you want to smash this game to bits even more.
14) Enough this game is the worst cricket game yet, at least the early games can at least say they had no one to learn from other mistakes.. WHY WHY OH WHY should we have to pay so much money for this ...@@@@
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35 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars It's just not cricket!, 12 Aug 2009
Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 
Where too start.

First off, I think most people would agree that cricket is not exactly the most universal of sports. Apart from the test playing nations, I wouldn't have thought a game like this would generate much interest in other parts of the world, not least the USA, which would normally provide huge market potential for a game.

As such, when I heard a new cricket game was coming out, I was ready too accept that in terms of presentation, it wasn't going to be on a par with other more popular sports such as football, golf etc. All i really wanted was a game that accurately reflected the basics of the sport, with an even balance of difficulty between bat and ball. This is where, like all previous cricket games, ASHES 2009 completely fails.

Having played the game for a few days now, i'm left wondering whether the developers have ever played the sport.
I'll start with bowling. As well as the ridiculous run ups and action animations (which i've said i can forgive) there are numerous problems. Firstly, despite there being all the usual delivery options, once the ball is bowled there is no discernable difference between any of them and the batting AI seemingly agrees as it plays pretty much whatever shot it likes, usually with success. The whole point of bowling in test cricket is to build pressure by bowling a consistent line and length to frustrate the batsmen into playing a difficult shot when their confidence is low. Essentially, you bowl to a plan and set the field accordingly. Turns out, this isn't the way to go. In fact, after playing a number of matches, I honestly have no idea what the AI recognises as good bowling. Dismissals just seem to occur for no particualr reason every so often, most commonly by run out as the AI sets off on crazy runs just when you're on the verge of hurling the controller out the window in frustration. This amounts to complete tedium because, although by the end of the innings the scoreboard looks sensible, there is no skill involved.

The batting, if possible, is probably even worse in terms of realism. Back foot late cuts for 6 off full deliveries, front foot slogs over mid-wicket to bouncers, back foot covers drives for 6 off 90mph bowling. It just makes no sense. Just like the AI does when it's batting, you can play whatever shot you like, regardless of the ball. Whilst hitting sixes ad nauseum may appeal to some, it's not realistic, it's not challenging, it's not fun.
What really grinds my gears is that the developers have claimed they started the game from scratch. Rubbish. The game feels identical to the last Brian Lara and is probably worse in many respects. I honestly thought EA's cricket '07 was ok and that a new generation game would solve all the previous problems. Instead of concentrating on the gameplay, all they've apparently been doing is adding a few more pixels to Monty Panesar's beard.

Joking aside though, I can't emphasise enough how disappointing this game is. If you're a true cricket fan, do not buy!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Cricket has finally arrived in a decent format
Game controls are good and allow plenty of flexibility and difficulty in their use.
Lack of save function in shorter games really annoying as longer matches do take time to... Read more
Published 22 days ago by S. Brooks

5.0 out of 5 stars cricket for the PS3,
Excellent cricket game for the PS3. Brilliant graphics and very easy to use. Hope they make more cricket game for the PS3.
Published 3 months ago by Tariq Abbas

2.0 out of 5 stars Not good as advertised
I am not happy with this game as the graphics are not good at all & does not match the standard of cricket 02,05 or 07.It is not worth.
Published 5 months ago by Mr. Imran Ahmed

3.0 out of 5 stars Hillarious!
I do think this game is a real step up in graphics from previous cricket games. I like all the different match lengths you can play. Read more
Published 5 months ago by m.d

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good game, really enjoyable
Ashes Cricket 09 is very good, having not had a cricket game on play station for a while it was nice to have one back, i have been waiting a while for one to come out, the game is... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. D. L. Norris

4.0 out of 5 stars Much improved over previous titles
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Published 5 months ago by B. Paddock

5.0 out of 5 stars Ashes Cricket 2009 (PS3)
The Grapics are fantastic & my son has had hours of fun this is a must for all Cricket enthusiasts
Published 5 months ago by Mrs. Linda Giddings

3.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing but there is nothing better out there!
I had always been an Xbox owner until I recently crossed the divide in to PS3 territory (I am very glad that I did!). Read more
Published 5 months ago by S. Thomas

4.0 out of 5 stars Good game.Some minor faults
I think this game looks good when you play.

The batting is very good. the biggest range of shots from all cricket games available. Good techniques. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Matthew Tilley

2.0 out of 5 stars And it all goes wrong..!
when playing a test series, the game doesnt keep hold of a statistics table such as leading run scorers and most wickets taken..this also includes ODI tournaments. Read more
Published 5 months ago by K. Pankhania

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