I'm encouraged by the pitch and lighting. Big Ant have always provided their cricket games with attention when it comes to lighting. The pitch in this video looks weathered and combined with the light looks quite real... I think. I think that it was when Cricket 19 came out (Or the trailer/early gameplay videos) that I thought the pitch (Admittedly may have been an English one not Australian) looked too green, flat and almost like marble.
Obviously if Australia are 19-0 from 1.4 overs in a Test, I'm assuming that someone is batting on Easy, or rookie/amateur or whatever it is!
Matt W hinted at fielders throwing with their dominant hand. If that's correct then I'll be an extremely happy man!
I've seen people say that it's the same game, just like people complain about FIFA (The only two games that I play) but I think that's harsh. They've created a game that resembles, feels and looks like cricket. Yes we all want it improving/enhancing but surely you can't expect it to look completely different. It's looked like cricket in all the games... it's still going to look like cricket. If it was completely different... it wouldn't be cricket. I know what I'm trying to say!!!
Matt W also suggested that the gym stuff was kind of optional. I don't want to get bogged down in it unless it really enhances the game, even if that's when it comes to improving the player in matches and therefore his/her career. I know that we all want more in career but we've all got lives outside of the game (Haven't we?!). I don't want to play every night for weeks to find that I'm only two weeks into my first season. That said, Career has often crashed/broke on me and I prefer playing as a team. I'm looking forward to playing Tests in particular.
Clearly a lot that has been thrown at us revolves around new users. As somebody alluded to a few posts back, we need new users and for them to enjoy the game and spread the word... and buy it every time! Hopefully all the varieties of difficulty means someone can slog every ball in a T10 for 6 if they like but someone like me can play a Test on Hardest (Well, Hard maybe!) and get a thrill out of leaving the ball and get annoyed if a Test finishes inside three days!
As I mentioned previously and has been touched upon by others, I'm looking forward to the new run out fielding feature but am interested to see how often it happens. Just like the opportunity to take a catch, we're really going to have to concentrate... like real cricket. Not real cricket (Is that a game?!). You know what I mean.
I can't claim to get a great thrill out of the nets but have visited a few times and it's obviously useful. I'm struggling to play my default shot against spin, you know, whacking around the corner behind square. The shot that kind of got semi-outlawed when they stopped us being allowed to walk miles outside off. I'm assuming that was to do with online games getting repetitive. I just play against AI. The pull shot seems great though and I'm managing to play sweep well which I struggled in the last game.
Anyway, I could talk about these games, this game and cricket for ages but... We're nearly there. Hope everyone gets what they want out of the game, many thanks for your insights/comparisons/expectations and... enjoy!
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