No problem Chris,
Ill give you my no bullsh*t assessment.
Played from about 10 yesterday to 11 at night before fearing for my PS3's safety.
Firstly 20/20
Played 2 games:
Aus (AI) 193-7 after their 20
England 102 all out after 17.2
New Zealand (AI) 212 after their 20
England 143 all out after 18.2.
Firstly the atmosphere in my opinion is not too different from the last game. The faint sound of music in the background after a boundary etc nothing too different.
The pacing and AI is much improved. Obviously the added action cam adds alot to this, if you were playing in normal camera mode, you would think you were playing Ashes Cricket with better AI. Which is not too bad.
Tests.
Bowled Aus out for 214 South Africa for 195 and India are 187-2
Inititially feared was too easy. This was with minimal HUD. However India are proving me wrong.
You may say use HUD off when bowling and it wil be the way forward but to start with its a no-ball fest and you wanna through it out the window.
Fielding is still clunky, they dive in the infield but needlessly and theres no sign of a dive on the boundary.
AI still seem to get set and decide to play some odd shot and get out.
Indian innings has been far better paced at 3.8 an over and just good play. This is at the Oval on what is said to be a great batting pitch.
Action cam for batting is far better than for bowling. Dont get me wrong the bowling cam is good and adds a bit to the game, but its still your point and go bowling system.
Whereas batting requires more thought!
Spinners do not get smacked, AI will work them around and if you mix it up you can cause problems.
Wickets of all sorts can occur. Yes LBW and Bowles are very very possible if you bowl well enough. I have had seamers squueze it past bat and pad and inswinging deliveries trap batsmen on the crease.
All in all so far its been VERY enjoyable. Batting is great with the cam and bowling is still your usual bowling however with the knowledge if you bowl well wickets such as LBW etc are possible.
One thing on a personal opinion note i would say is:
When bowling getting the play and misses are superb. However you no the batsmen has not snicked it or got a feather on it as it does no revert to the catching reticule. When they do edge it it switches to the catching camera so quickly you dont really see he edge.
However play and misses do reduce a batsmens confidence obviously.
Its hard to put a downer on this game. Purely as nothing really is wrong with it.
No exploits when bowling and no real AI problems when batting. No middle order rubbish from the AI.
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