I'm genuinely not looking to be a kill-joy, and may well buy it, but I haven't liked much about what I've seen so far.
That was a bug which they've now fixed. The movement may be slow or fast depending on what difficulty you play on (iirc), but playing on the hardest difficulty should be perfect.
In the same boat. All the nuts and bolts and small things that every cricket fan craves in a game are present but I can't help but worry the central element that makes these nuts and bolts worthwhile might be a little rubbish. Like I remember in the codemasters games it was impossible to get a realistic edge. It'd balloon off the bat with no physics. In this it seems to be very realistic, but it's not much use having realistic edging if the process to edge the ball is just shit and the shot is just unrealistic like some in the video.
I get the feeling that they're making some interesting excuses for some of the dodgy looking things in the screenshots and trailers. Higher than normal fielding reflexes, playing around with different difficulties etc. Why would they deliberately do things that would appear like faulty gameplay? I love the whole idea of what they're trying to do but I just haven't been that impressed with the screenshots and trailer.
I think the most important thing with this game compared the ones in the past is the amount of community imput. The Big Ant guys have been constantly on the PC.net forums answering questions and taking suggestions so feature wise it won't be lacking at all. Mechanics wise though, it'll be interesting to see how it does
Just watched the trailer and yeah, I've gotta agree somewhat. It'll still probably be the best cricket game made, but that's really not saying much.
Those Pakis from India always mod the games to make them more challenging/realistic on the PC. As long as the basic mechanics are great, everything else will be fine tuned by them.
As long as the longevity is there to play with mates 6 months down the track or have a play every now and then I won't mind.
exact same thing for afl game which was/is a piece of shit. im still pumped as fuck but gotta take everyhting into account
