Best Cricket Game?

[puddleduck]

Some very colourful language used, but weirdly it's mildly amusing

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Do you not have any of the ICC's/Cricket Coaches/Cricket Heroes to add to your list?

 

[MattW]

Do you not have any of the ICC's/Cricket Coaches/Cricket Heroes to add to your list?

Knew I forgot something, but I'm not a fan of the management games.

 

[Gurjot95]

Played a lot of International Cricket (NES) and BLIC 96 as a kid. I still remember playing that with my mates and my highest score in IC was about 500 I think. The way to change it's fielders fielding position was funny though

 

[zimrahil]

I'll take no credit for that - I had my headphones off so was just looking at the video to see if the game was the right one.

For what it's worth the games I have -
International Cricket (NES)
Super International Cricket (SNES)
Brian Lara Cricket (Megadrive)
EA Cricket '96 (PC)
EA Cricket '97 Ashes Tour Edition (PC)
EA ICC Cricket World Cup England 99 (PC)
Shane Warne Cricket '99 (PlayStation) [I think I have the PC version too, just I couldn't find it while checking]
EA Cricket 2000 (PC)
World Cricket 2002 (PC) [here's a review of the earlier versions, I assure you nothing is new in the 2002 edition - awful, awful game]
EA Cricket 2002 (PC)
EA Cricket 2004 (PC) [I only have the 'Classics' version, my PC at the time couldn't run it so I never got it]
EA Cricket 2005 (PC) [likewise]
Ricky Ponting International Cricket 2005 (PC and PS2) [bought the PS2 version because the PC one won't play on Windows Vista/7/8]
International Cricket Captain III (PC)
EA Cricket 07 (PC and PS2) [have the PS2 version for the sake of it]
Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 (PC and Xbox 360) [I won it on PC from PlanetCricket, later got the Xbox 360 version as it was the only game at the time I got my Xbox]
Cricket Coach 2007 (PC)
Cricket Champs (PC) [the company now seem to sell life-insurance, a good indicator of the quality of the game]
Ashes Cricket 2009 (PC)
Cricket (Wii) [I think I've played it twice]
Cricket Revolution (PC - Steam)
International Cricket 2010 (Xbox 360) [Promotional Copy from Codemasters - many thanks to them]
Street Cricket Champions (PS2) [surprisingly broadly acceptable, not good, but not terrible either]
Shane Watson's Powerplay Cricket (Nintendo DS) [trust me don't buy it]

I had/played most but not all of those. Cricket 2004 I still have fond memories of (with sam's patch though), mainly because of different body builds. IIRC was just small, medium and large but asthetically if nothing else it really added to the experience

Cricket 2000 only had right handed batsmen

 

[MattW]

Cricket 2000 only had right handed batsmen

I'll be honest and say I never noticed...

 

[puddleduck]

Since they clearly used the same code for many years after that, it somewhat explains why bowlers were incapable of bowling interesting lines to lefties!

 

[zimrahil]

To be honest main things to be thankful to EA for in last 15 years are Tours, domestic competitions and stat tracking.

Gameplay they have always struggled with...

 

[barmyarmy]

@MattW - that's quite a lot for someone who doesn't like cricket...

 

[puddleduck]

I presume you mean the stat tracking that was never actually accurate and the tours that merely provided a multitude of ways to experience the gameplay

 

[zimrahil]

true, but imagine those games without tours and stat tracking

also to be fair, they had features like form, and in depth stats for batting, bowling and fielding (e.g. back/front foot stats, stats for playing pace/spin etc)
Whether these stats had any affect in game is debatable, but having them is a vital ingredient for good varied gameplay imo

 

[puddleduck]

They were complete cash-ins though. They quite literally didn't make a single bit of progress over their various games. Just rotated their selection of bugs

 

[treva]

Cricket 2004 will always be the best game for me. Just a million times more realistic (once the bugs are fixed) than any other cricket game I have played.

 

[puddleduck]

I always say it, but BLIC 2005 will always be my favourite just because the multiplayer side of the game was superb.

 

[MattW]

@MattW - that's quite a lot for someone who doesn't like cricket...

I don't see what having no interest in watching the sport has to do with playing a game about it. I like playing cricket, just I'm not good at it so play the games instead - none of that to me means I should care if Australia beat England or not.

Just with most other sports there's a decent game out there so you don't need to try all that many to find a good one. Indeed most of the time if I buy a non-cricket sports game it is because I'm getting the same sport on a different console.

While it may be odd to people who like Football, I was happy enough with PES6 on my Xbox 360, so it wasn't until I got a 3DS that I ended up getting PES2012, they all just seem to me as just good Football games.

Likewise with Golf, I only have multiple Golf games because I've got one edition of Tiger Woods on different consoles and on the PC.

 

[Villain]

Some more gameplay videos of different cricket games added in the index.Thanks to all for their contribution to this thread.