sid the shark
School Cricketer
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2007
- Online Cricket Games Owned
like many of you, i bought ICC 3 with the hope that the game's developers had made improvements to what was already a decent game.
sadly, in their desire to appeal to a new arcade audience they seem to have forgotten what made the game great in the first place - its gameplay.
i cannot understand why they spent so much time and effort on animations which are far from impressive and are riddled with glitches. yes, it may attract a new audience (although i sincerely doubt the playstation set will be blown away) but was it really worth it in the long run?
i actually prefer the old graphics which, while basic, at least gave you a good overview of what was going on and where the batsmen score their runs.
the new animations are tiresome after a while and give you little concept of where the ball is being hit.
why they didn't just add a bit more variety to the old graphics (ie. reverse sweeps, paddle sweeps, few more aerial drives) i don't know.
let's be honest, most die-hard icc fans would have rather had an improvement to the gameplay (for instance, make the twenty20 competition more realistic, sort out the mistakes in the database)
instead, we get mutton dressed as lamb. the only decent additions i can see is the lbw decisions, the ball tracker and the updated stats (which you'd expect anyway).
i took my copy back to the shop the next day and got a refund. i then got my old copy of 2006 working on windows vista.
it may not be perfect but at least it's International Cricket Captain as i know it.
sadly, in their desire to appeal to a new arcade audience they seem to have forgotten what made the game great in the first place - its gameplay.
i cannot understand why they spent so much time and effort on animations which are far from impressive and are riddled with glitches. yes, it may attract a new audience (although i sincerely doubt the playstation set will be blown away) but was it really worth it in the long run?
i actually prefer the old graphics which, while basic, at least gave you a good overview of what was going on and where the batsmen score their runs.
the new animations are tiresome after a while and give you little concept of where the ball is being hit.
why they didn't just add a bit more variety to the old graphics (ie. reverse sweeps, paddle sweeps, few more aerial drives) i don't know.
let's be honest, most die-hard icc fans would have rather had an improvement to the gameplay (for instance, make the twenty20 competition more realistic, sort out the mistakes in the database)
instead, we get mutton dressed as lamb. the only decent additions i can see is the lbw decisions, the ball tracker and the updated stats (which you'd expect anyway).
i took my copy back to the shop the next day and got a refund. i then got my old copy of 2006 working on windows vista.
it may not be perfect but at least it's International Cricket Captain as i know it.
after playing the demo i decided that i am not going to buy this game .This was the most usless edition of ICC so far .
