crick4life
International Cricketer
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First look at Cricket 2005 videos - My feedback
I could only watch few minutes as it was a demo DVD at EB games shop. I watched a quick video of Cricket 2005 between (CPU vs CPU probably) England v/s Australia, a test match (can't remember the teams) and finally few balls from a ODI from Aus v/s Sri Lanka. I am not drawing conclusions but just mentioning here my feedback on the video.
1. Bowling actions are just different. They are new animations from what I could see. There was a huge circle surrounding the bowler at the time of delivery. I do not know what that was for.
2. I have to say the graphics are pleasing and some of the players look absolutely real. In particular Gillespie with the mullet and the beard looks absolutely life like.
3. The players now rejoice quite differently, there are hugs and grins when the players get together to congragulate the bowler for a wicket. I do not think there is any lip movement or expressions on the faces as in BLIC from what I could see. I will confirm that tomorrow when I have a look again.
Again the hug is not a complete hug but it is something like a hi fi from Cricket 2004. Don't think there was any contact when they did hi fi in Cricket 2004.
4. If you buy it on PC I do not see how you would play it without !xspeed. The game is smooth but way too slow for my liking. I hope the game is faster and fluent when it is released.
5. In the clip I saw a backfoot cover shot sail over the fence for a six. The defence looked similar and leaving the ball looked similar too. I am guessing here all the shots from the previous version has been retained here. I saw few meters showing at the time of delivery but didn't have time enough to dwell into details.
6. All the balls bowled while I watched were on and around good length area. Hopefully the CPU doesn't bowl too many yorkers and bouncers this time around.
7. In the Sri Lankan game the bowler looked to put Arnie to shame with the kind of ripping muscles he had. All the players look huge and chunky. Maybe it's a result of using Rugby engine? The players look absolutely unreal in terms of muscles but that isn't a problem to be honest.
8. The pitch texture, the outfield and rest of the stuff with graphics hasn't change that much from what I could see.
I will ask EB if they can lend the DVD(it has many other game clips in it that plays in a loop) or they have more copies of that demo DVD.
I could only watch few minutes as it was a demo DVD at EB games shop. I watched a quick video of Cricket 2005 between (CPU vs CPU probably) England v/s Australia, a test match (can't remember the teams) and finally few balls from a ODI from Aus v/s Sri Lanka. I am not drawing conclusions but just mentioning here my feedback on the video.
1. Bowling actions are just different. They are new animations from what I could see. There was a huge circle surrounding the bowler at the time of delivery. I do not know what that was for.
2. I have to say the graphics are pleasing and some of the players look absolutely real. In particular Gillespie with the mullet and the beard looks absolutely life like.
3. The players now rejoice quite differently, there are hugs and grins when the players get together to congragulate the bowler for a wicket. I do not think there is any lip movement or expressions on the faces as in BLIC from what I could see. I will confirm that tomorrow when I have a look again.
Again the hug is not a complete hug but it is something like a hi fi from Cricket 2004. Don't think there was any contact when they did hi fi in Cricket 2004.
4. If you buy it on PC I do not see how you would play it without !xspeed. The game is smooth but way too slow for my liking. I hope the game is faster and fluent when it is released.
5. In the clip I saw a backfoot cover shot sail over the fence for a six. The defence looked similar and leaving the ball looked similar too. I am guessing here all the shots from the previous version has been retained here. I saw few meters showing at the time of delivery but didn't have time enough to dwell into details.
6. All the balls bowled while I watched were on and around good length area. Hopefully the CPU doesn't bowl too many yorkers and bouncers this time around.
7. In the Sri Lankan game the bowler looked to put Arnie to shame with the kind of ripping muscles he had. All the players look huge and chunky. Maybe it's a result of using Rugby engine? The players look absolutely unreal in terms of muscles but that isn't a problem to be honest.
8. The pitch texture, the outfield and rest of the stuff with graphics hasn't change that much from what I could see.
I will ask EB if they can lend the DVD(it has many other game clips in it that plays in a loop) or they have more copies of that demo DVD.
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I think, from what you have said, that the graphics are better. Of course gameplay can only be deduced from a playable version, which looks far off now (even the demo is not in sight).
