My thoughts based on the videos I have seen:
Things I liked:
- Animations (especially fielding) look much smoother and improved
- Career mode depth is amazing. If the game had just these career mode changes over DBC14 and nothing else, I would still buy the game.
- The line/length HUD being shown just a second or two before would make all the difference to people like me who earlier needed to pre-meditate shots against Fast bowlers in DBC14
- Having multiple grounds assignable to teams is a great addition and makes playing tours (and career mode) so much more immersive.
- Presentation looks pretty good - I love the addition of making the team colour in overlays selectable.
Things that can be improved:
- The AI still chooses weird, unrealistic field settings. Long-off in the first over of the match? Having Slips, Gully and Short-thirdman at the start of the match? Hopefully this is related to match difficulty and may not happen on higher difficulty levels.
- I don't like the Slo-mo implementation for catching in the slips/WK, though I can understand there is perhaps no better alternative to implement it in a video game
- Not sure if this is because they were human-controlled but otherwise Wicket-keeper needs to be improved. More often than not, the WK keeps diving for no apparent reason - instead of getting in the line of the throw from the outfielder, it waits until the last second and then dives to take the throw.
