Squilliam said: I found the graphics and the animations to actually be a step backwards! It looks like an up-res PS2 game, at least from the demo! But yeah I forgot about the Ashes... I think you're right though. My biggest gripe was that it was unreadable on my friends HD TV and pressing a button to catch!!! Oh how I hated that..

I can read it fine on my TV (the PS3 version). Pressing a button for a catch is fine, it is better than it just being random like on EA's cricket games, and at least they have removed the throwing. I think the graphics are slightly better, but there are just so many annoying things about this game, like how you can play back foot shots off your toes very easily and how they don't hold the pose. After a nice forward defensive, you hold the shot and show you are balanced and in control... but no, and they removed the sweep shot, but still there is no competition so...

Hmmm. I know about half the team that worked on Cricket, and its been in dev for years... (they missed last years deadline, and it got moved to this year).

Curious to know what its like on the Wii - does it have motion support at all?

A proper WM+ cricket title would rock...

Munkeh111 said: Squilliam said: I found the graphics and the animations to actually be a step backwards! It looks like an up-res PS2 game, at least from the demo! But yeah I forgot about the Ashes... I think you're right though. My biggest gripe was that it was unreadable on my friends HD TV and pressing a button to catch!!! Oh how I hated that.. I can read it fine on my TV (the PS3 version). Pressing a button for a catch is fine, it is better than it just being random like on EA's cricket games, and at least they have removed the throwing. I think the graphics are slightly better, but there are just so many annoying things about this game, like how you can play back foot shots off your toes very easily and how they don't hold the pose. After a nice forward defensive, you hold the shot and show you are balanced and in control... but no, and they removed the sweep shot, but still there is no competition so...

It was a 25" CRT at my friends house. But yeah I agree with pretty much everything you wrote, I think I prefer some of the older games for the PS2 more. They look a little uglier but they are a whole lot more fun. TBH im actually tempted to just keep playing them on my PS3.

Well I the Ashes licence, and it is actually quite fun as it feels more satisfying to build an innings

@ shams, it seriously does not feel like it has been in work for years, it really feels similar to BLIC 2007 I don't know what took them so long, with such an outdated graphics engine, the crowd is what you would see in FIFA 2001! And there is no Wii Motion Plus

Well Shams I give them credit for actually making a Cricket game in spite of the flaws. Its honestly better than nothing and I thank them for its existance, but at the same time I kind of wish it was a little bit more enjoyable so I could justify giving them my money at launch rather than continuing to play the old PS2 games and waiting for it to drop to half price or less.

Denmark

wii play and mkwii sure jumped up the chart

The Wii version may have an outside chance to outsell the PS3 version due to legs. However, with the absence of any numbers it may not be so black and white. Nice to see a cricket game on the Wii. Hope it is not outsold too heavily by HD versions so if there are more cricket games made, they will come to Wii.

This shouldn't surprise anyone. There was a cricket game on the PS1 that sold over a million copies.

Also, great for LittleBigPlanet.

Your underestimating the draw of being able to actually bat in a cricket game. There is absolutely no reason to assume Wii golf games won't sell as much as Wii Cricket games compared with the PS360 versions.