Cricket isn’t really the easiest sport to translate into a game, although Codemasters have managed it admirably ever since Brian Lara Cricket was released in 1994, but, let’s be honest now, batting is still the most fun portion of the game, and it’s likely that it’s always going to offer superior entertainment over the bowling..
It’s fair to say that Cricket has been embarrassingly under represented in the history of gaming. A sport that is followed and loved by many millions around the world. In fact given the fanaticism of the Indian public the number could be approaching half a billion. In this article we explore the reasons for Cricket’s diabolical gaming history and the possibility of a turn around.
I'd love a well made cricket game, I can sit down and watch cricket for hours, looking forward to the Australians 5 - 0 the English.
Cricket games are dead and buried IMO. A series of average games plus a niche market equals a disaster.
But at least we have the memories. Shane Warne '99 on PS1, those were the days.
I'm sure (hope) a good indie game will come along eventually, just because AAA studios don't find it profitable enough doesn't mean indies will.
Stick cricket is a simple flash game and that's lots of fun.
Cricket? Isn't that the British game that combines bowling and baseball? Lol that's one wacky game you have there but way too boring for video game. You couldn't give that game away.
As a Brit I've no idea who Lebron James is, I've vaguely heard of the name before but that's about it. I think if you asked most non Americans to name a famous basketball player they would all say Michael Jordan and that's primarily because of Hollywood.
NFL, NBA, MLB are only really popular in the USA but that's a big enough market by itself as far as publishers are concerned.
Cricket is a complicated game not weird, which is perhaps one of the reason video games of it have always been a challenge. Baseball/Rounders are both extremely simplistic by comparison.
Rugby is also more popular worldwide than the NFL.
Button Masher - Cricket. Love it or hate it, it is New Zealand’s summer sport of choice for many. Even if our very own Black Caps are, at times, painful to support there is nothing like the dulcet tones of cricket on the TV during a grand summers day. I love cricket. Use to play but now am just an avid supported and arm chair critic, so imagine my disgust when being confronted by Mr Ricky Ponting on the cover of International Cricket 2010. Unfortunately the reasoning for the lack of local talent on the cover soon becomes apparent. And probably explains the more generic cover used on the retail release of the game.
Gameplanet: "Serviceable. It's the sort of faint praise regularly directed at Black Caps medium-pacers. It is also a fairly apt description of Codemasters' latest cricket title, International Cricket 2010.
Serviceable in that it is the most advanced, detailed cricket game ever to hit a console, but still nothing special when compared to the broad range of other sports titles competing for your hard-earned cash."