EA Sports - Cricket 2004

[Minkus_Swan]

Just found this review. It's not too good I'm afraid, maybe I'll wait a bit and play Rugby League for a while - before I buy it.

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[CarterS]

Originally posted by Minkus_Swan
Just found this review. It's not too good I'm afraid, maybe I'll wait a bit and play Rugby League for a while - before I buy it.

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no surprise really. they guy is exactly right re: cost cutting to the extreme.

 

[Dipper]

Originally posted by CarterS
also, hopefully the ai bowlers don't bowl bouncers or yorkers every single time...consistent line and length!

Yeah they can leave the full pitchers at home, no fun sweeping yorkers or realistic but don't cut down the bouncers, it's the most fun in the hole game trying to pull/hook the short stuff into the top tier of the grandstand.

I read the revue which wasn't too enticing but I don't think it's just about the money they put into making the game I think that cricket is just a very difficult sport to repilicate as a video game.

One of the main problems is that if you allow the bowlers to move the ball laterally then how does the player when batting deal with that?On the 2002 the answer is pretty simple the ball doesn't appear to deviate & you hardly end up getting out to the classical outside edge to slip.

I'm a much bigger Test fan that one day cricket but I feel that the one day is easier to replicate in a game becasue on the bowling side it comes down more to putting the ball in the right place & bowling to the field.On EAC2002 the one day stuff seemed like more of a real challenge, bowling in the Tests felt like pot luck & batting was just a test of pateince, if you can resist pressing the L1 button & you treat the full pitched deliveries with respect then you should be able to bat for ever but it gets a bit tedious.