International Cricket 2010

[Xtreme]

360

Not bashing either console (i am a proud ps3 owner aswell), but i do most of my online gaming on the 360 console.

 

[GetAroundUs]

Pretty good game I must say!

Started an Ashes series Australia (Me) Vs England.

Sent them in on a deck doing a little bit in overcast conditions.

They are 2/125 off about 35 overs. Good pacing and just got those wickets in fairly quick succession, pretty enjoyable.

 

[Baz_hawk]

How is the new batting system? I'm eager to hear how the pacing of the game is in more detail. Do they go for it in the dying stages of a one day match if they need 50 odd off 30 balls and so on?

 

[OzBomber]

I played my first ODI the other day and it's fair to say it was shit. I made 260 from 43 overs. Shit shots made me go all out. They chased it down in 35 overs...

AI fields are a joke. They'll have no one on the legside bar a fine leg and a mid on and then they'll proceed to bowl short at the body. You can then use the loft button without any risk. Sometimes they'll have 2 long on/offs and also 2 mid on/offs. I haven't played it that much, but there are a few bugs which probably need to be patched, then this game will be awesome.

 

[dajesmac]

Just thought I'd bump this to add my 2 cents on the game. It's a massive step up from AC09, which I hated. The bowling is so much better, it actually feels like you have freedom over where you want to bowl, and the line and length for spinners makes sense (referring to where abouts on the pitch the bowling cursor goes light green).

The AI is tons better. I played a test vs Pakistan at Headingly, made it a day 5 pitch, I was 8-130 at lunch haha. Johnson made a hundred then, and Hilfey made 22 (101) and I made it to 301. I then dominated their line up with Bollinger (6 wickets) and they got out for 87. Keeping in mind I made the conditions as bowler/seamer friendly as possible at Headingly which on the game is considered an already difficult batting pitch.

Anyway I've started a World Cup, it has the 2007 groups, in my first game against South Africa I bowled them out for 290 off 48 overs (Hilfy got smashed, as did Hauritz) and am 0/13 off 1 in reply. It's great to see a finally realistic AI in terms of pacing the innings, though they admittedly did take the batting powerplay at 16-20, but yeah.

Just thought I'd add that I was impressed.

EDIT: These games were both on hard I'll just add.

 

[Baz_hawk]

So worth buying would you say? Keeping in mind i actually liked Ashes 09

 

[dajesmac]

If you liked AC, then I'd say you'd like IC10, but I guess it depends on what sort of thing you look for in a cricket game.

Graphically, there is not much advancement. I'd say the best part of the game is the AI improvement, they do so far in my experience pace their innings very well, and don't run themselves out like AC09 (actually I haven't run out the AI yet, which IMO is a good thing).

If the game turned me from a hater to a lover than obviously I'd say its good, but I have been told Codemasters are released a World Cup themed game next year, which would be in February so if you can wait another 6-7 months it'd just be a good idea. It won't be a much different game.

 

[GoalSneak07]

Is this released in Oz? Also are all other teams licensed unlike Ashes 09 when they had all buggered names because of the licensing agreement.

 

[HSSB]

If you liked AC, then I'd say you'd like IC10, but I guess it depends on what sort of thing you look for in a cricket game.

Graphically, there is not much advancement. I'd say the best part of the game is the AI improvement, they do so far in my experience pace their innings very well, and don't run themselves out like AC09 (actually I haven't run out the AI yet, which IMO is a good thing).

If the game turned me from a hater to a lover than obviously I'd say its good, but I have been told Codemasters are released a World Cup themed game next year, which would be in February so if you can wait another 6-7 months it'd just be a good idea. It won't be a much different game.

I doubt they would bring out a game in Feb when there will be a game released in November here, there isn't much point for someone to buy both of them.

 

[dajesmac]

@ one of the above posters: I don't live in Australia atm, I live in the Middle East but it's been out for a good month here.

I doubt they would bring out a game in Feb when there will be a game released in November here, there isn't much point for someone to buy both of them.

There's a game being released in November?

I assumed February because that's when the World Cup begins.

 

[dajesmac]

Is this released in Oz? Also are all other teams licensed unlike Ashes 09 when they had all buggered names because of the licensing agreement.

Oh yeah the names are still buggered, but editable. However when you edit them, the first name can only fit like six letters so you'll get "Harbaj" instead of "Harbajhan" and "Ashwel" not "Ashwell" etc, which sucks, but oh well.

If there is a World Cup themed game, then they would undoubtedly have the full ICC WC licensing meaning all the players names will be correct like in RP07. Though exhibition matches will probably have unlicensed names.

 

[OzBomber]

I've played it a bit, but it is a pretty shallow game.

Not many features, quite a few bugs and online does not work.

It is challenging which is awesome, however bugs such as the opposition bowling so many no balls, uppercut sixes to spinners (rare, but does occur), back foot shots to yorker (gravity defying bounce) and shocking AI captaincy fields mean the game is hard to play for long hours on end.

 

[dajesmac]

I've played it a bit, but it is a pretty shallow game.

Not many features, quite a few bugs and online does not work.

It is challenging which is awesome, however bugs such as the opposition bowling so many no balls, uppercut sixes to spinners (rare, but does occur), back foot shots to yorker (gravity defying bounce) and shocking AI captaincy fields mean the game is hard to play for long hours on end.

It's true, but it is actually a new team working on it and it's going to improve. The glitches will go eventually, in my experience the glitches decreased in this game from 09 by about 90%. The back foot shots to yorkers are frustrating, the batting grids are wrong and it's hard to watch, but I think this is something Trickstar are working on, they've also said they want to work on animations and general finesse now that their budget is larger and they can play around with more things, which is great cause I personally don't like the animation at all.

The uppercut sixes are annoying, but for me they only happen when I bowl shit balls so it's fair enough and doesn't bother me that much. The AI fields I've heard negative things about but for me it hasn't been that terrible.

The features are limited, but the improvement in this area from 2009 is vast. You can actually play tournaments and an IPL-style Twenty20 league with custom teams (though you can't have Aussies or Poms in them). These things will improve in time, and I'm willing to bet that eventually there will be a Be A Pro feature implemented, probably not any time soon but eventually I'm sure of it. That'll add a lot to the game.

 

[HBK619]

It's true, but it is actually a new team working on it and it's going to improve.

It's not really a new team. I think nearly all Trickstar employees were at Transmission working on Ashes.

The features are limited, but the improvement in this area from 2009 is vast. You can actually play tournaments and an IPL-style Twenty20 league with custom teams (though you can't have Aussies or Poms in them). These things will improve in time, and I'm willing to bet that eventually there will be a Be A Pro feature implemented, probably not any time soon but eventually I'm sure of it. That'll add a lot to the game.

Really? IMO a Be A Pro mode could quite possibly be one of the most boring modes ever introduced to...almost anything.

I can't even see how it would work, you would HAVE to be an all-rounder otherwise you do nothing but field for 20-50+ overs and get bored shitless. And for the batting part you just sit in the stands and watch for 20-50+ overs unless you're batting? Yeah...fantastic.

 

[Toshowyouwhy]

It's not really a new team. I think nearly all Trickstar employees were at Transmission working on Ashes.
Really? IMO a Be A Pro mode could quite possibly be one of the most boring modes ever introduced to...almost anything.

I can't even see how it would work, you would HAVE to be an all-rounder otherwise you do nothing but field for 20-50+ overs and get bored shitless. And for the batting part you just sit in the stands and watch for 20-50+ overs unless you're batting? Yeah...fantastic.

Yeah, I spend all my weekends doing that anyway, not sure I'd want it in a game...

 

[dajesmac]

It's not really a new team. I think nearly all Trickstar employees were at Transmission working on Ashes.
Really? IMO a Be A Pro mode could quite possibly be one of the most boring modes ever introduced to...almost anything.

I can't even see how it would work, you would HAVE to be an all-rounder otherwise you do nothing but field for 20-50+ overs and get bored shitless. And for the batting part you just sit in the stands and watch for 20-50+ overs unless you're batting? Yeah...fantastic.

I was referring to them as one anyway, it's still a new series by a new team, despite it being two games old. They're still trying to get gameplay downpat before they dive into features.

Be A Pro for many is exciting and challenging, and brings a new dimension to the game. I'm not mad keen on it but I wouldn't mind it as an extra feature.

You make a point about having to watch it all, but they could just auto-sim every over you're not bowling and the whole innings while you're not batting. It would take fielding out of the game but tbh, who cares?

 

[themightybloods]

I am not sure whether I should get this game as I already own Ashes 2009 and with a World Cup game coming out next year. The things that really annoy me in Ashes 2009 and the last few cricket games in general are:

1. Player names (and the fact that its hard to edit them due to the maximum letter restriction)
2. Third Umpire: The fact that after every run out third umpire was called even if the batsmen was home by a mile
3. Wicketkeepers: Knocking over the stumps in every run out
4. The fielding is horrible and not being able to dive is really painful to watch
5. Unrealistic scoring: Playing a test match and being hit for 8 runs an over
6. Unrealistic shots: Backward square cut for six off a pace bowler
7. Bowling needs to be made so its more enjoyable
8. More game modes: In Ashes 2009 there was hardly anything to do
9. Commenators: Seriously the commentating is dreadful, they really need to have way more lines to say

In any other future game I would like to see things such as:
- ICC 50 Over World Cup
- ICC 20 Over World Cup
- ICC Champions League- participate as a domestic team
- Ashes and other high rivalry series such as India VS Pakistan
- Challenge Mode or trying to beat real life based scenarios, such as chasing down 434 as SA to beat Australia in an ODI
- Be a Pro mode (Maybe with auto skipping when not batting or bowling)
- Custom Tournaments- any format
- Career mode- playing as a team and playing all of their fixtures
- LICENSED
- Obviosuly better graphics


I know these proposals will probably never happen, but that's what I would really like to see in a cricket game.

Also is the action cam good in this game and does it really add an exciting edge to the game?

 

[dajesmac]

I am not sure whether I should get this game as I already own Ashes 2009 and with a World Cup game coming out next year. The things that really annoy me in Ashes 2009 and the last few cricket games in general are:

1. Player names (and the fact that its hard to edit them due to the maximum letter restriction)
2. Third Umpire: The fact that after every run out third umpire was called even if the batsmen was home by a mile Haven't noticed this so much in IC10.
3. Wicketkeepers: Knocking over the stumps in every run out
4. The fielding is horrible and not being able to dive is really painful to watch
5. Unrealistic scoring: Playing a test match and being hit for 8 runs an over Improved.
6. Unrealistic shots: Backward square cut for six off a pace bowler
7. Bowling needs to be made so its more enjoyable I enjoy bowling in IC10 despite hating AC09's bowling.
8. More game modes: In Ashes 2009 there was hardly anything to do There are more.
9. Commenators: Seriously the commentating is dreadful, they really need to have way more lines to say Can't remember AC09's so much, IC10's isn't much better but have David Lloyd, Agnew, Warne and Bishop.

In any other future game I would like to see things such as:
- ICC 50 Over World Cup In.
- ICC 20 Over World Cup In.
- ICC Champions League- participate as a domestic team There's an IPL style 8 team league with made up teams.
- Ashes and other high rivalry series such as India VS Pakistan You can just play these as test series.
- Challenge Mode or trying to beat real life based scenarios, such as chasing down 434 as SA to beat Australia in an ODI
- Be a Pro mode (Maybe with auto skipping when not batting or bowling)
- Custom Tournaments- any format In.
- Career mode- playing as a team and playing all of their fixtures
- LICENSED
- Obviosuly better graphics


I know these proposals will probably never happen, but that's what I would really like to see in a cricket game.

Also is the action cam good in this game and does it really add an exciting edge to the game? I don't like Action Cam and refuse to use it. I'm the only person I know who doesn't like it though.

Response ^

 

[HBK619]

Be A Pro for many is exciting and challenging, and brings a new dimension to the game. I'm not mad keen on it but I wouldn't mind it as an extra feature.

You make a point about having to watch it all, but they could just auto-sim every over you're not bowling and the whole innings while you're not batting. It would take fielding out of the game but tbh, who cares?

The thing with Be A Pro is that it's supposed to elevate your gaming experience. All your proposing is that elements of the game get taken out of it just so you're not bored with it? It just doesn't work, I would love to see if Trickstar have any plan for it and what it would be, but I honestly can't see it working.

Be A Pro can work in almost every other game because you're generally involved 100% of the time (especially in things like NBA, NFL, NHL because of the size of the game and there being real focus on all players out there). Cricket is almost an individualistic sport in a way, because really it can all be turned by just one player more than most other sports.

A Be A Pro mode where it literally just focused on things like you bowling or batting just rings nothing to a game that makes it "exciting and challenging", the thing that would hurt as well would be if you can do absolutely nothing to change results in a game. If a bowling innings was being auto-simmed until you came in the score could be 1-500 or 8-27 where you could be in the game or not and then you're suddenly like "Well what's the point?" same can go with batting to the point where everything just becomes out of your control and the game is either gone or un-winnable leaving you wondering why the **** you would want to continue.

I would much rather Trickstar focus on something that really improves and elevates every single element in the game than bring in a Be A Pro mode that for what I can see would be absolutely 'blow my brains out' boring. There just does not seem to be for me to be any sort of scope for a mode like that at all.

 

[dajesmac]

The thing with Be A Pro is that it's supposed to elevate your gaming experience. All your proposing is that elements of the game get taken out of it just so you're not bored with it? It just doesn't work, I would love to see if Trickstar have any plan for it and what it would be, but I honestly can't see it working.

Be A Pro can work in almost every other game because you're generally involved 100% of the time (especially in things like NBA, NFL, NHL because of the size of the game and there being real focus on all players out there). Cricket is almost an individualistic sport in a way, because really it can all be turned by just one player more than most other sports.

A Be A Pro mode where it literally just focused on things like you bowling or batting just rings nothing to a game that makes it "exciting and challenging", the thing that would hurt as well would be if you can do absolutely nothing to change results in a game. If a bowling innings was being auto-simmed until you came in the score could be 1-500 or 8-27 where you could be in the game or not and then you're suddenly like "Well what's the point?" same can go with batting to the point where everything just becomes out of your control and the game is either gone or un-winnable leaving you wondering why the **** you would want to continue.

I would much rather Trickstar focus on something that really improves and elevates every single element in the game than bring in a Be A Pro mode that for what I can see would be absolutely 'blow my brains out' boring. There just does not seem to be for me to be any sort of scope for a mode like that at all.

You make a fair enough point but tbh I wouldn't really care if snippets of the game are taken out.

B.A.P would only work IMO if domestic leagues were implemented first, aswell as second XI's for each and also each country, that way you're fighting for your position in each squad. To me it doesn't matter if I don't come on to bowl until it's 1-500 or 8-27 cause after all you're just playing for your spot in the team. I think a lot of people find that appealing, particularly those over at PlanetCricket (which if you're not aware of it, is a cricket forum that Transmission read from and post on much like Ross is doing for the AFL game here).

Having said that though it could be ages before even second tier teams and even a career mode are implemented so all of this is irrelevant and will be so for years.

 

[HBK619]

You make a fair enough point but tbh I wouldn't really care if snippets of the game are taken out.

B.A.P would only work IMO if domestic leagues were implemented first, aswell as second XI's for each and also each country, that way you're fighting for your position in each squad. To me it doesn't matter if I don't come on to bowl until it's 1-500 or 8-27 cause after all you're just playing for your spot in the team. I think a lot of people find that appealing, particularly those over at PlanetCricket (which if you're not aware of it, is a cricket forum that Transmission read from and post on much like Ross is doing for the AFL game here).

Having said that though it could be ages before even second tier teams and even a career mode are implemented so all of this is irrelevant and will be so for years.

The problem comes with needing domestic teams is that Codemasters either don't have the money to buy the licenses (why we are constantly only seeing Aus and England instead of any other team). I don't think we'll ever see it unless these cricket games start selling beyond 500,000 units (which it is a LONG way off).

And I still really don't see the point of BAP if it just comes down to playing for your position because then it takes the whole team element out of the game. If you're only playing for your spot and not really to win, then where is the real motivation? Despite myself saying it's a fairly individualistic sport it's still obviously a team game and the results will play into peoples motivation in wanting to continue with that mode.

I can also 100% guarantee that you'll get the same w***ers who are saying it would be awesome to have regardless of result suddenly complaining that it's boring because you either don't do enough, you don't have enough say in results, winning/losing games becomes irrelevant.

It'd be cool to be able to take a player from junior's to state to national teams but there's just so much that doesn't work and eliminating around 1/3rd of the game to do so just doesn't really fit into the whole "bring something in to make a game better" mantra that game developers tend to have.

 

[InCase]

I can definitely see your point HBK. I would however like a Be a Pro mode, granted they added a lot more depth to the game, but like said - that is way too far off to make the mode thoroughly enjoyable.

However a simple solution/short term fix which would slightly introduce the mode whilst they built the depth would be to add a "player" or something similar mode. So you can choose just one player, which could also be your created player, to play the series or match with. Not much would really have to change in the system but would allow a similar to be a pro mode, or at least style of play.

It would suit me, as I for one just don't have the time to play a whole lot of video games, so a test just takes too long for little reward. Where as if you play just as say the number three batsmen, you can sim until you are in, sim whilst the other batsmen is at the strikers end. Making it much quicker and still enjoyable whilst getting a small taste of a "be a pro" style mode and getting a true test feeling, blocking, singles, not just hit or miss.

 

[dajesmac]

It would certainly make running between the wickets a problem though, cause you'd think the batsman at the other end would be the AI. Perhaps they just have to oblige to each run like in FIFA BAP's where they pretty much have to pass to you.

 

[BlackMamba]

1. Player names (and the fact that its hard to edit them due to the maximum letter restriction)

If you're on PS3, you can download the rosters with the updated names from the forums at PlanetCricket, and not have to enter them yourself.
This will disable your abilities to win PS3 trophies though...which is unfortunate because you could do it in Ashes 09 without disabling trophies.

 

[BlackMamba]

Who on here is playing this game on PS3? Would love to play a game online at some stage. Maybe playing with no lofted shots to avoid the online disconnection bug?